Bloomberg Software Engineer interview experience

After the initial steps, I hit a sequence that included coding rounds, plus an additional round focused on system design and then later an engineering manager discussion. I was able to pass the first two rounds, and even the scheduling experience was unusual enough that one of the later parts got rescheduled.

When I finally got to the next technical conversation, I had prepared for system design, but the discussion went somewhere else—into refactoring rather than what I expected from the advertised category. That threw my momentum off. I still answered what I could, but the round didn’t