I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
Met Bloomberg Engineering software engineers on campus and talked directly with recruiter, advanced to non-technical behavioral interview with a software engineer. Advanced to virtual on-site next month, which will include data structures and algorithms.
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY)
Interview
First round was given a leetcode hard (only 1 question), similar to the N-Queens problem. Study backtracking, BFS, DFS, and matrix type problems. Some standard behavioral questions. Interview was 45 mins long.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Bloomberg? If you had all the time in the world to work on a past project, what would you add/do?
The interview process was made out of 5 rounds ( 2 DSA, 1 system design, 1 recruiter and 1 manager talk ). One of the DSA interviews and the system design interview were in the same day.
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Dec 2025
Interview
Standard Behavioral where I was asked about my experiences,
R1: Candy Crush & Swap Adjacent Nodes
R2: Smallest Amount of Changes needed to the two strings an anagram & Subsets 1