Bloomberg Software Engineer interview questions

The interviewers are very poor communicators, prejudice and biased. The interviewers are extremely binary in that they have one "optimal" solution in front of them while you're coding and push aggressively for you to code exactly that. Anything you code differently "is wrong" in their eyes. Whether or not it compiles and the runtime is optimal makes no difference. I was given an easy leetcode problem, "Merge Two Sorted Arrays In Place" with one array having empty spaces. I coded a working solution that compiled just fine. Then I just given a question to create a class with a "steps_from" method that takes an integer and if its even divide n by 2 (n/2) and if its odd (3*n)-1 until n = 1, and return the number of steps required until you hit one.

first and second rounds were technical interviews with questions similar to leetcode. Recruiter said rest of the process was: 3rd round would be with HR and last rounds would be with a senior engineer