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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Oct 12, 2010
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sep 2010

      Interview

      A recruiter posted the Job in July on Craigslist 2 months later Recruiter told me to apply for a job # on their web site 1 month later arranged for a phone interview Phone interview was 1 person. It was 7am My time on West Coast. I prepared for two weeks studying algorithms, data structures etc. None of those came up the interview was **All** C# questions. I tier to create a rapor with the guy and gain some insight into the company culture but he was rather uninterested, obviously busy and in a hurry to get the interview over with. So we launched into the C# question session .. the questions were in no particular order and followed one after the other at a furious pace. Anytime I mentioned something like 'delegate' or 'mutex' we wandered off on that tangent until he was satisfied that his knowledge was superior to mine and then we would move on with a 'grunt'. None of the questions involved problem solving or architecture they were all nitty gritty C#/CLR type questions. Things you can look up on Wikipedia or MSDN in 10 minutes. Needless to say some things I didn't know or got wring in hindsight. But it all ended after about 50 minutes... I then told him why I wanted to work there , what I like about the position etc I could tell that I wasn't going to get another interview. It's been two weeks and neither the Recruiter or the Company has got back to me ..but I still have hope lol

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      If you new a string inside a Using statement is it available outside the using statement?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      What is a delegate, how do you run it in a thread, how is is used with events
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      Threads Threads Threads .. BeginWorker, AutoEvent ... everything you can think of including C++ Interlock
      1 Answer

      Question 4

      Garbage collection , IDisposable, Whats the difference between a C# finalizer and a C++ destructor, how does it work
      1 Answer

      Question 5

      Boxing ..when does it occur..what the difference between ref types and static types... IClonable x = 5; what does this do ... ??? when does boxing occur in this case
      1 Answer

      Other Senior Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Bloomberg

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      May 6, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Bloomberg

      Interview

      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

      Sr. Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 21, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY)

      Interview

      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

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      May 14, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through other source. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Apr 2026

      Interview

      Drawn out / repetitive / redundant, overly focused on algorithms you won't use, matches candidates with teams that don't need them. I started interviewing with 2 teams per their process, passed one and failed the other. The team I passed with then filled their role, so they had me interview with a 3rd team but had me start over from first round. I pass this AGAIN (so, to be clear, I've passed 2 out of 3 first rounds with 3 different teams), and then they have me do 2 second round interviews. I made clear I had a lot of client-side experience with a high degree of skill in interface engineering and client architecture. The system design interview asked me basically to "build whatsapp," which is a backend distributed architecture problem. They weren't checking that I knew how a REST api works - they wanted to know about database redundancy with sharding and partitioning and so on, interservice data format pros and cons, message broker queue latency, scaling all these backend things....like, it was not basic stuff. They clearly wanted a distributed systems expert, and of course declined to move forward with my candidacy. With this being the final result of 5 interviews, I expressed that I felt I was matched with the wrong team and received no reply. Kind of feel like my time was wasted. Also, a portion of people I spoke with had no personality or warmth whatsoever.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Build whatsapp from a system design perspective.
      Answer question
      1

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