Bloomberg Software Engineer interview experience

The first interview centered around a resume-to-experience conversation, and then I got a coding question involving hash maps. I felt like the interview went reasonably well and the interviewer was open to hints, especially around time complexity.

A second round followed in the same general style, and the topics leaned toward classic problem-solving patterns like backtracking and linked lists.

I didn’t get an offer. Still, I didn’t feel completely lost—more like the questions tested specific data-structure fluency, and even when the discussion was smooth, I didn’t land the finish they were