Bloomberg Software Engineer interview experience

I got passed between three different recruiters, and each one gave specific dates for updates, then missed them badly. The descriptions of what would be covered were also wildly off—what I got in the interviews didn’t match the prep material I was sent.

The interviewers themselves were decent, but it felt like there were exact answers they were looking for. I kept thinking about the mismatch between the format and what they were assessing—like the point of picking problems where there’s effectively one implementation route, or doing a system design conversation only to see if I make a tiny