Bloomberg Software Engineer interview experience

There was about a five-minute delay, and when the coding assessment began on a HackerRank-style platform, there was a major tooling problem: the interface didn’t offer a place to run code. I ended up having to have the interviewer read the code aloud, and it immediately made the whole session feel awkward.

We started with questions about my projects and behavioral topics, then moved to two coding questions. The first one was unclear and hard to interpret, and it pushed me toward using a TreeMap just to manage inputs, but the problem statement itself felt difficult to parse, and there weren’t