Bloomberg Senior Software Engineer interview questions

Bloomberg wants you to prepare for the technical interview as if you would be interviewing for FAANG. I interviewed for both FAANG and Bloomberg and I can assure you that there is a big difference in terms of approach. In my case they started with a fairly standard algorithmic question, Leetcode easy, then built on that. They essentially probe and try to find a weakness. It's not about solving the problem, it's about solving the problem in the way they want you to solve it(for instance don't do it recursively, do it iteratively). A lot of open ended questions, behavioural questions thrown into the mix, possibly every interview is different. Regardless, there was no feedback, just an automated email notifying you that you failed. The decision for the technical interview takes into account behavioural factors, if they don't like you for whatever reason they will fail you. After all I solved around 90% of the 10 iterations of the problem I was given and they still failed me.

I got contacted on Linkedin by HR and was advised o apply to a specific role after she sent my resume to their teams. This whole process was a big lie. They told me there will be a coding interview. Instead a guy showed up a few minutes late which could not speak English clearly (I had to ask him several times to repeat himself to understand what he was saying). He told me this is not a coding interview. I was surprised but I went along anyway. He started asking me to explain BigO of different STL containers ... so make sure to memorize those like a parrot. Then he asked me some multi-threading questions. It is very annoying to tell you the interview is about something and you are in that state of mind then asked totally different questions. p.s. He didn't know there is a language called Elixir and asked me about it when I mentioned I worked with it, like how is this relevant?