I got an interview with Bloomberg for software engineer new grad later in August and scheduled the phone screening for first week of October. To begin with interviewer joined zoom 15 minutes late and without even saying Hi or asking any behavioral questions unlike what recruiter told me jumped into HackerRank. He copy pasted a code below a code already written in HackerRank which was literally half in Java and half in Python and started asking me time complexity questions and then asked me to write the same code recursively and then left for 10 minutes. This was the worst interview I’ve ever had and felt super disrespected. Contacted the recruiter but they also ghosted me.

I was reached out by the recruiter directly through LinkedIn. I was asked one medium and one hard LeetCode-style question, with a few follow-ups. It started with a general introduction.