Bloomberg Software Engineer interview experience

Then I moved into a longer technical block with two coding problems—both medium to hard. One prompt involved finding something like K substrings, and the other was about Huffman encoding.

The part that threw me off was that the interviewer didn’t offer hints or guidance during the coding. It meant I had to be very confident in my language choices and in core software concepts like OOP, while also mapping the problem into an efficient algorithm. By the time it ended, I felt like the technical bar was high and the support level was low, and that mismatch contributed to the rejection.