User-yafd0Sep 20, 2026
Bloomberg SWE interview, full breakdown for prep
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good luck on the results, this writeup alone is more detail than most posts I've seen on their process
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this is super helpful, thanks for writing it up. did they let you pick which two coding problems or was it random?
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seemed random honestly, no idea if it's pooled by team
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market data SD sounds like a lot to cover in one round, did they expect a full diagram or more discussion based?
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when I had a similar SD round it was mostly whiteboard discussion, not much time for a clean diagram
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the log aggregation one came up for me too, exact same follow ups about non monotonic timestamps
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same here, the sharding by userId part is where I got tripped up
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the dijkstra twist on the balloon problem got me too, wasn't expecting weighted spread times
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