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Software Engineer Interview Experience

March 10, 2014
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied through an online application and got a phone interview three weeks later.

The phone interview did not involve coding; it just asked me to explain two algorithm questions:

  1. Given two stack classes, how to implement a queue with dequeue and enqueue operations, both with O(1) time complexity.
  2. Find the longest palindrome in a string. The interviewer kept asking if I could provide a faster solution. I ended up giving an O(n^2) solution.

Questions

Find the longest palindrome in a string.

Just keep asking if I could give a faster solution. I ended up giving an O(n^2) solution.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1,070 interview experiences for the Bloomberg LP Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

10%
Pass Rate

Bloomberg LP's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive52%
Neutral32%
Negative16%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Bloomberg LP's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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