I applied online two to three times and received auto-rejection emails every single time. Finally, I spoke with a Bloomberg representative at a career fair and secured an on-campus interview.

The first round consisted of two technical questions within an hour, asked by a single engineer. At the end of the interview, the engineer mentioned wanting to schedule me for the final round, and we did.

The final round was another hour-long session with two engineers. Each engineer asked me one technical question. One engineer was very welcoming and approachable, but the second engineer appeared annoyed from the outset and was extremely rude – quite possibly the rudest interviewer I have ever encountered. I later spoke with other students who confirmed her consistently rude behavior. It was difficult to make eye contact or engage in conversation due to her dismissive responses and facial expressions. You could tell the other engineer was being extra nice to compensate for her rudeness, making for a very awkward situation.

After that, I had a 15-minute chat with a recruiter about general topics. Personally, I felt I performed adequately. I developed an optimal solution for the first question and was quite confident that my solution for the second question, while the interviewer found it to be great, was not optimal.

I received an auto-rejection email a week later. I reached out to the recruiter for feedback but received the standard response: "It is against our policy to provide feedback; please apply again next year."

I would have rated my experience positively if not for that one interviewer. However, I believe Bloomberg needs to provide better training to their interviewers to ensure candidates feel more comfortable. I have never experienced such an awful interviewer.

Linked list with random and next for every node.

Something about stock prices and returning the top 3; don't remember question details.

Rotated sorted array: find element.

Given a number of children and a number of turns for each round, figure out which student wins.