Bloomberg·Software Engineer

Bloomberg Software Engineer interview experience

Medium

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a process that kicked off with an online assessment.

It gave me three coding questions tied together around a 2D grid and a balloon-popping theme. The first problem was essentially about whether all inflated balloons could eventually pop, similar in spirit to Rotting Oranges, and I used a breadth-first search approach.

The second question built on that and forced a timing component: I had to track how long it took for all balloons to pop, which meant adjusting the BFS to process level-by-level. The third question added variable pop times, and that’s where it shifted to a shortest-path style solution—Dijkstra’s algorithm using a min-heap to

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