Acudí a una entrevista en Bloomberg (New York, NY)
Entrevista
Had interview with them few weeks back
My first round was simple DS/C++ problems
1. How to get top 10 most traded stocks from continous feed of stock trade
2. Implement a function so that it will not proceed with its operations if it is called more than 100 times per minute
Second Round
1. Implement Shared pointer
2. Design a Web Service, where multiple feeds are input and they are trying to modify a common database
Third Round
They showed me Bloomberg Terminal. Asked very generic questions what were the most challenging moments in your career. How do you plan your work? Few questions around the background.
After this I met with HR and he said entire team is really positive about me.
Fourth Round
Interview with the senior manager. Showed me Bloomberg Terminal again, I kept asking him all the queries I had around the terminal. In the end he said you asked really good questions
HR Round
He said people are very positive. Discussed salary expectation and all the benefits Bloomberg provides.
Round with Head of the Business unit
He was not sure that I had all the technical rounds before and asked me very basic programming questions
1. Error in the code
2. Difference between 32 bit and 64 bit systems
Few behavioral questions, Why Bloomberg? Why we should hire you?
After this HR told me that people were really positive and he will send me salary breakup next day. I didn't received any confirmation from them for a week and later found out that I was not selected. This is really unusual of Bloomberg as they respond within 2 days. I answered their each and every technical question, I really don't know what they expect.
Overall a good company with weird people.
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Pregunta 1
There was nothing difficult, they have very average questions. They just try to give you stress in the process.
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
Acudí a una entrevista en Bloomberg (New York, NY)
Entrevista
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
Solicité el puesto por otro medio. Acudí a una entrevista en Bloomberg en abr 2026
Entrevista
Drawn out / repetitive / redundant, overly focused on algorithms you won't use, matches candidates with teams that don't need them.
I started interviewing with 2 teams per their process, passed one and failed the other. The team I passed with then filled their role, so they had me interview with a 3rd team but had me start over from first round. I pass this AGAIN (so, to be clear, I've passed 2 out of 3 first rounds with 3 different teams), and then they have me do 2 second round interviews.
I made clear I had a lot of client-side experience with a high degree of skill in interface engineering and client architecture. The system design interview asked me basically to "build whatsapp," which is a backend distributed architecture problem. They weren't checking that I knew how a REST api works - they wanted to know about database redundancy with sharding and partitioning and so on, interservice data format pros and cons, message broker queue latency, scaling all these backend things....like, it was not basic stuff. They clearly wanted a distributed systems expert, and of course declined to move forward with my candidacy.
With this being the final result of 5 interviews, I expressed that I felt I was matched with the wrong team and received no reply. Kind of feel like my time was wasted.
Also, a portion of people I spoke with had no personality or warmth whatsoever.