Overall, it was a positive and professional interview experience, though the interviewer was on the stricter side. Unfortunately, I was dealing with an illness and wasn't able to prepare as thoroughly as I wanted to, which left me feeling a bit off throughout the conversation. Despite not feeling my best and facing a tough interviewer, the process was well-structured.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2025
Interview
Made it to the 2nd round, 1st round was a virtual interview where I solved a hashmap stack candry crush style question. Didn't manage to get a fully coded solution but I fully explained my thought process and made it to the 2nd round. In the 2nd round, I met them in person and got interviewed by 2 engineers who gave me a collatz problem and a LC easy. Overall, I was confused why I got denied as I thought I did good. Interviewing was overall pretty chill but it seems like they really stress acing LC easy's. I ran out of time so couldn't finish it in time.
Fairly simple. Phone call then onsite. For onsite it was 10 min office tour follow by 1 hr interview then 1 hours system design and 30 mins manager interview. Interviewers were nice and the recruiter was accommodating.
5 rounds first 3 being leetcode coding ones and the last 2 being behavioral. The first three are the hardest asking mainly taggeed questions and the rest are not that bad