I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londra, Inghilterra) in Oct 2025
Interview
I gave this Bloomberg interview for a Senior Software Engineer role. I chose Bloomberg over FAANG as I expected it would give importance to C++/low-latency programming skills and my past experience. But to my surprise, I was asked just one unpopular LeetCode question (pun intended) and a system design question at a junior DevOps level. Rejected straight away. It just weighs whether I memorized a LeetCode problem and can bluff through a regular system design. I had to withdraw myself, as I will never be one — because I’m not one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LeetCode medium and basic system design — nothing beyond the usual Bloomberg-filtered LeetCode.
Terrible communication. Got passed between 3 different recruiters all of whom gave specific dates for updates and blew past them. Descriptions of what would be covered in the interviews are wholly inaccurate (don’t bother reading the PDF they sent to “prep” you, almost none of it came up in any of the 3 interviews I did with them.)
Interviewers themselves were decent but clearly had exact “right” answers they were looking for. What’s the point of a leetcode question where there’s only one way to implement it? What’s the point of a system design interview where you’re having a candidate parse through a complex system that they clearly already know everything about and are just looking for 1-2 EXACT modifications to check off their boxes? Was there even a right answer? I genuinely don’t know what this company was looking for. Waste of time, waste of effort, waste of resources. Avoid, avoid, avoid
Interviewed with two separate teams. Coding rounds. Leet code style question. The interview went on for 1 hr. Waiting for the next steps. The seem to like link lists and arrays