Hey guys. I’m interviewing for the Senior SWE at Bloomberg NYC. In the phone screen, I got to know from the interviewer their majority backend is on C++, and they started using JavaScript serverside before Node was a thing, and they stuck to it. I might be wrong, but I got an impression they’re running legacy apps. Is that the case in the engineering teams at Bloomberg? #Bloomberg
Let’s say it’s not the latest and greatest stack - what are you gonna do? Not take the money? And, if you are getting better money elsewhere - Why would you chose Bloomberg?
You are right. But, if the stack is so outdated that it would hurt my career in the future, I would maybe keep interviewing until I get the right one
Depends on the team, some teams are very modern…. Some not When I interviewed, one team I could tell used legacy code by the hacker rank. Another team was asking to me write promises from scratch, and use es6 classes. So all teams are different.
One team gave me a node hacker rank to fetch a api request and merge the responses without node fetch or axios….
Don't they have John Lakos over there? I'd hope that the tech stack would have been modernized.
Team dependent
Hey. I’m interviewing with the Sell Side Platform and Electronic teams. Do you know how they are?
That would be trafing systems. STAY AWAY from there lol.