Bloomberg Software Engineer interview experience

There was a quick chat where I learned the direction of the session and we talked in a friendly way, and then I got dropped directly into coding. The actual task in that first round was a LeetCode-style “valid anagram” problem, and once the talking wrapped up we went straight to the coding portion.

In another part of the process I experienced, the format was similarly structured and language-agnostic: I had a short resume and why-Bloomberg review, then a longer live coding challenge on a shared HackerRank console. That example problem involved comparing two sorted strings and extracting the