Bloomberg on-site worth it?
I'm interested in getting into fang. Would a Bloomberg on-site interview be helpful as practice? A recruiter wants me to attend a special hiring even that skips the phone screens. It's for the infrastructure team. Does Bloomberg do leetcode questions? I would not be interested in Bloomberg unless they pay like fang and I fail all fang interviews. Maybe not even then. My fang phone screens are coming up in the next month.
Don't put FANG on a pedestal. You'll be very disappointed.
Have you worked for FANG prior to MS? If so - how do they compare?
Yes. MSFT is a bit slower and the average engineer isn't quite as good. But with FANG getting so large now, I bet that gap will narrow. Overall, it's a great WLB for 80% of the pay for me. I'm almost 2 decades in so I care a lot more about WLB than TC at this point in my career. Best job I ever had was neither FANG nor MSFT, though
Turned down a Bloomberg offer once, even after they called me 3 weeks later asking again if I would be interested. To this day I debate if I made a mistake. I have friends of friends working there constantly telling me how awesome it is and how much they love their jobs. I wouldn’t blow off these other companies so easily just because they aren’t in some currently trendy acronym.
I can tell you it probably wasn’t a mistake. Unless you want to work on legacy systems and spend 3 hours in a shuttle for daily commute to/from office
Well, I knew the systems, it was a Microsoft product 1 version behind looking to upgrade IIRC. And I was already planning to live within subway ride of the office.
Our pay is extremely competitive for nyc and there's a lot of great things about working at bloomberg. I'd go in with an open mind.
Really? What I see online is like 100k+ less than fang. What is the equivalent title of Facebook E5 at Bloomberg? And does it pay 300 to 350k a year?
What is your YOE? If you are around ~10 yrs and ace the interviews then those numbers are doable (and remember it is all cash)
My offer at Bloomberg was half of what I make now. Obviously turned it down.
What's your current TC? Yoe?
Practice is always good. However I wouldn't artificially limit yourself to FANG only. They're just companies. Some teams at Google and Netflix are working on incredibly boring projects. The FANG companies are also not substitutes for each other. They're all different. So yes, more interviews is better, but not because you get practice. It's better because you have your foot in the door in more places and therefore you're more likely to land on a team that you enjoy.