I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in May 2025
Interview
It was very straightforward session. a leetcode medium level question. I found the algorithm very quickly because it was not new problem for me. I implemented with some mistakes but found and fixed all of them myself, after few test cases. after that he asked few design questions like how to protect the valid inputs, stuff like that. I answered all. it was quite positive and i believed i am going to next step. what happened? in just two days rejected! why? I am very sad now.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
a bit about my recent task in my current company, a mid level LC problem
Terrible communication. Got passed between 3 different recruiters all of whom gave specific dates for updates and blew past them. Descriptions of what would be covered in the interviews are wholly inaccurate (don’t bother reading the PDF they sent to “prep” you, almost none of it came up in any of the 3 interviews I did with them.)
Interviewers themselves were decent but clearly had exact “right” answers they were looking for. What’s the point of a leetcode question where there’s only one way to implement it? What’s the point of a system design interview where you’re having a candidate parse through a complex system that they clearly already know everything about and are just looking for 1-2 EXACT modifications to check off their boxes? Was there even a right answer? I genuinely don’t know what this company was looking for. Waste of time, waste of effort, waste of resources. Avoid, avoid, avoid
Interviewed with two separate teams. Coding rounds. Leet code style question. The interview went on for 1 hr. Waiting for the next steps. The seem to like link lists and arrays