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Sep 28, 2020 34 Comments

Hello Guys,

As the title says I have scheduled an onsite with Bloomberg for Senior Softeare Enginnering position sometime next week and have been preparing LC mostly Medium. I have completed the bloomberg card on LC and haven’t really know what to prepare and my anxiety is killing me. Do you guys have any pointers and on what areas should I have focus on?. How about System Design? OOD?. Thanks for the help!

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  • Read up about the company. Their main schtick is market data but they have loads of other initiatives. Their bread and butter is bloomberg accounts. It's fucking bananas how much money they make on it. I have heard everything revolves about getting more accounts. Maybe talk about how features driving revenue seems like something you can get behind? Dunno. Just dig around a bit about their product and know as much about it as you can.

    Take this with a grain of salt but I heard they use no third party libraries. So for C++ that means no STL full stop. Perhaps that level of tech excites you. Just an idea to explore.

    And know that they do not allow boomerangs. Once you leave you're gone so if they ask you where you think you will be in 10 years, say bloomberg.

    Good luck!

    Edit: this was actually in reply to GE but stands as is I suppose.
    Sep 28, 2020 9
    • No use of Stl makes sense to me in the following way because I’ve seen this in one of my workplaces. Bloomberg’s code must have been around for
      Longer than stl. So they create their own libs for certain constructs. Then somewhere along comes stl. Do you take time to now refactor existing code which is working pretty well or use your time on something more productive? So legacy code still uses in-house libs. If you are just adding on top of existing files adding new file in an existing module it gets confusing if some part of the code used stl and some part is still using in-house lib as the api names syntaxes and semantics can all be very different. Also including a new header can increase binary size and compilation times etc. so many times they end up using in-house libs which are already well suited to their modules and have been working well for them
      Oct 6, 2020
    • Wow, fake news
      Oct 9, 2020
  • Mostly mediums? I got a hard on phone and failed. Bloomberg is the company that made me realize I should be able to do hards in 30 mins and wasn’t prepared enough yet for faang.
    Oct 8, 2020 8
  • Look up what the Bloomberg Terminal is, that’s where all the majority of revenue comes from. Bloomberg News is another part of the equation that helps with the acquisition of this data. There are other branches of services/products that Bloomberg provides such as data APIs, but you should be good with just having an understanding of what the Bloomberg Terminal is.
    Sep 28, 2020 1
  • Following. Can you update your experience once you are done with interviews. I am planning to schedule interviews in November.
    Sep 28, 2020 2
  • GE
    HowRu

    Go to company page GE

    HowRu
    Anxiety, I can definetly relate, having a lot of it. I have my phone screen coming up, how was yours? Any advice you can provide?
    Sep 28, 2020 5
    • Hey OP, i have my onsites tomorrow, can I dm you for behavioural questions as well?
      Oct 27, 2020
    • Aristotle / IT
      lSAL47

      Aristotle IT

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      I am in search of knowledge
      lSAL47
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      Yes sir
      Oct 27, 2020