Recruiter reached out to me and got me started with the interview process. I submitted a resume which she passed on and got a request to interview for a team. A few days later they came back and told me there's no longer a spot on that team so we'll put you in for another team.
Scheduled a 1 hr phone screen. Interviewer clearly did not want to be there; he was quite rude throughout the process. Whatever, I thought I'd just be polite and finish the interview to the best of my ability. He asked a few behavioral questions about my current project which I answered.
Technical problem was straightforward -- word search in 2d matrix. (Leetcode medium) Finished it with time to spare, talked about some optimizations, wrote a test framework, passed all test cases on first try. Added some edge cases as well which also passed. Discussed space and time complexity. He told me everything was correct and the problem was solved the way they wanted me to.
Got rejected 2 days later with no explanation. Would've appreciated some explanation or feedback because I'm just confused what happened and would like to know for future interviews. Only things I can think of -- he prompted me for one of the test cases, he wasn't satisfied with my work experience / explanations. Not sure.
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Otras evaluaciones sobre las entrevistas para el cargo de Senior Software Engineer en Bloomberg
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
Me postulé a través de otra fuente. 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.