Bloomberg interview notes, page 9 of 14

“The problem itself isn't hard but I spent too long on the actual matching logic and not enough on the flag abstraction layer, which is clearly what they cared about.” 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 brute-force DFS and they let me finish before asking about performance on large graphs.” 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 fumbled this a bit because I gave a number without context, like just said '99%' and moved on.” 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 recognized the Candy Crush problem immediately and that was almost my downfall.” 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 count frequencies, try removing each character, and recheck.” 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 trick I kept second-guessing myself on was whether to use a min-heap or just sort and scan.” 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 the obvious hashmap plus min-heap combo and the interviewer was fine with it but then pushed on what happens when the upstream is firing thousands of events per second.” 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 much every interview starts this way so I had a version ready.” 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.

“My first instinct was a queue and I went with it, which was fine, but I spent too long second-guessing whether to use a deque vs a plain list before just committing.” 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 had a project ready but fumbled the trade-offs part.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bloomberg, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.