Bloomberg·Software Engineer

Bloomberg Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a phone screen that included two LeetCode-style problems: one about backtracking and another involving BFS/union-find.

The interviewer was friendly and the follow-ups were fairly normal.

Then the superday-style portion came, and it felt much more uneven. In the first superday round, I got a non-LeetCode question around OOP plus a LeetCode medium. The second superday round was heavier: a LeetCode hard about finding the median in a data stream, with lots of algorithm follow-ups—questions that dug into why I chose one approach versus another—along with an OOP component. The interviewers in this stage weren’t friendly and there weren’t hints, so it put more weight on me to carry the reasoning myself. I didn’t

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