Bloomberg Software Engineer interview experience

Then the next part felt more technical right away: another roughly 15 minutes where I discussed my work in the AI/LLM space alongside the coding portion.

For coding, I worked through a variant of “Design Underground System.” The emphasis was on how I structured my implementation and how I communicated while writing, rather than just getting to the final answer silently. The system design round followed, and it was the kind of real-time challenge that made me slow down to think in components: design a market data system where multiple upstream exchanges send data to a loader server, and then