Bloomberg interview notes, page 1 of 14

“I knew this one but still fumbled the explanation a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bloomberg, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to just scan left to right and count unmatched parens, which kind of works but gets messy fast.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bloomberg, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Went with DFS plus backtracking which is the right call.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bloomberg, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I got the basic idea pretty fast but then fumbled on the pointer updates.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bloomberg, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This took me longer to get into than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bloomberg, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic backtracking problem.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bloomberg, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the sequence pattern pretty quickly, the logic clicked after tracing through a few values by hand.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bloomberg, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight for HashMap plus a min-heap of size K and felt pretty good about it until they pushed back on delete.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bloomberg, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I always fumble this one a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bloomberg, Recruiter / HR Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The insert and remove with O(1) are fine with a hashmap, but getRandom is where it gets tricky.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bloomberg, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.