Bloomberg interview notes, page 3 of 14

“My brain went straight to BigQuery's REGEXP_EXTRACT and PARSE_TIMESTAMP before I even finished reading the question.” 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 thought I had this nailed in the first two minutes and then spent the rest of the time patching edge cases.” 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.

“Classic opener but I fumbled it a bit because I hadn't really mapped my experience to the specific role language they used in the posting.” 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.

“Classic heap problem but I fumbled explaining why a min-heap works here before just coding it.” 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.

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

“Classic topological sort 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 started with partitions and got through the basics fine, but when they pushed on ordering guarantees across partitions I fumbled a bit.” 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.

“Pretty classic backtracking problem.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bloomberg, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one took me a minute to even parse what they wanted.” 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.

“The binary search framing clicked pretty fast for me.” 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.