Bloomberg·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen
- Given an encoded string where the format is k[encoded_string] meaning the encoded_string is repeated k times, write a function to decode it.
“Classic stack problem.”
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133 interview notes · updated Oct 2026
“Classic stack problem.”
“This is LeetCode 676.”
“I got the basic cases pretty fast, exact match is trivial, absent letters are trivial.”
“The follow-up is where they actually get you.”
“Pretty standard motivation question but I fumbled it a bit.”
“Simpler than it looks but I almost overthought it.”
“This one took me a while to even understand what was being asked.”
“This one took me a minute to even parse fully.”
“The MVP scoping part is where I stumbled a bit.”
“They gave me the full first chunk of the screen just for this.”