Bloomberg·Software Engineer

Bloomberg Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Bloomberg process started with a fairly heavy technical focus, and by the time I got to the core coding portions I could tell it wasn’t meant to be quick or easy.

After a resume walk-through, I was pushed into a LeetCode hard-style graph problem where I had to implement a breadth-first search to find shortest paths. I ended up working through edge cases while keeping the traversal efficient, and I had to manage the usual moving parts like queues and a visited set so I didn’t reprocess nodes.

Later, the rest of the loop followed a pattern that felt like real engineering screening: two additional in-depth technical interviews on LeetCode-style questions, then a separate conversation with an engineering manager. In the manager round, I talked about past

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