Phone call with HR about relevant experience and then a 45 minute live coding session with a medium ish difficulty leet code style problem, then I got a rejection email
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Tokio) in Oct 2025
Interview
1. HR interview 2. Leetcode interview with engineer 3. 2 hours interview consisting of two parts: a. Leetcode easy interview b. General technical knowledge around network. 4. Suppose to be interview with manager, but HR keep ghosting me after 2 emails over 2 weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Typical HR interview about past experience etc. 2. Leetcode medium interview where needed to find something similar to longest substring 3. a. Leetcode easy question about the intervals (similar to meeting rooms at leetcode) b. theoretical network related questions about OSI model, udp vs tpc etc, not too difficult, then network system design related questions where I had to answer on situational questions given the drawn architecture)
Round 1: Initial 30 min zoo. call with recruiter
Round 2: 1 hour hackerrank session over zoom
Round 3 and 4: 1 hour hackerrank session followed by system design session
Round 5: In person interview