Overall, it was a positive and professional interview experience, though the interviewer was on the stricter side. Unfortunately, I was dealing with an illness and wasn't able to prepare as thoroughly as I wanted to, which left me feeling a bit off throughout the conversation. Despite not feeling my best and facing a tough interviewer, the process was well-structured.
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Mar 2026
Interview
Nerves got the better of me during the interview and I blanked, which cost me the role — but the overall process was great! Fun interview though loved the interviewer, and he was very kind and worked with me the entire time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a URL shortening service. Users paste a long URL and get a short one back. When someone visits the short URL, they're redirected to the original. Walk me through how you'd build it.
Fairly simple. Phone call then onsite. For onsite it was 10 min office tour follow by 1 hr interview then 1 hours system design and 30 mins manager interview. Interviewers were nice and the recruiter was accommodating.
5 rounds first 3 being leetcode coding ones and the last 2 being behavioral. The first three are the hardest asking mainly taggeed questions and the rest are not that bad