Bloomberg Software Engineer Phone Screen Questions
183+ questions from real Bloomberg Software Engineer Phone Screen rounds, reported by candidates who interviewed there.
What does the Bloomberg Phone Screen round test?
The Bloomberg phone screen typically lasts 45-60 minutes and evaluates core Software Engineer fundamentals. Candidates should expect 1-2 algorithmic problems, basic system design discussion at senior levels, and questions about relevant experience. The goal is to confirm technical competence before bringing candidates onsite.
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Bloomberg Software Engineer Phone Screen Questions
Bloomberg Phone Interview
Just completed the Bloomberg Phone Interview for New Grad 2021 Consisted of 20 minutes asking about resume and past experiences, 30 minutes for a technical question https://leetcode.com/problems/design-underground-system/ I was working my way to...
Bloomberg Phone Interview
I need help in figuring out solution to this. There are students registered for courses. We need to group students based on common courses. s1 is student1 and c1 is course1 and...
Bloomberg Phone Screen
Given the coins =[1,5,10,25] and target . Find the minimum coins to make the target,Print the target and its path, ie, the path which has fewer coins. Target Expected Output 12-> [1*10,1*2] 68-> [2*25,1*10,1*5,3*2] 132->...
Bloomberg | Phone + Onsite | Interview Questions
New Grad SWE interviews Phone interview was in November 2020 1. https://leetcode.com/problems/design-underground-system/ 2. https://leetcode.com/problems/count-and-say/ 3. Bonus OOD. No coding, just talk about implementation. Virtual onsite was in December 2020 1st interview: 1. https://leetcode.com/problems/two-sum/ 2. https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-parentheses/ 2nd interview 1. Variation of...
Bloomberg | NYC | SWE | All rounds | Offer
Well, I feel that posts helped me a lot, so I would like to share my experience with you guys!! 1 Round | Phone Screen At the beggining I was asked...
Bloomberg | Phone Screen | New Grad
project you are proud of & why? After this question it was almost 8 minutes and we moved to the DS questions. LC: 200 -> Solved it. LC: 665 -> Got somewhat...
Bloomberg | Phone Screen | New Grad
Phone screen started with introduction about the interviewer and then he asked about me. Then two technical questions : 1. https://leetcode.com/problems/first-unique-character-in-a-string/ 2. https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-parentheses/
Bloomberg | New Grad | April,2020 | Reject
Degree: MS in Software Engineering YOE: 1 yr as Full time at a Startup in India and 10 months as Intern in USA Position: New Grad Result: Reject Applied on : March 1,2020 Got an...
Bloomberg | New Grad | April,2020 | Reject
Degree: B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from a Tier-1 college in India YOE: 10 months as Full time and 8 months as Intern Position: New Grad Result: Reject Applied on : March...
Bloomberg | Phone Interview | New Grad
Start with self-introduction and some questions related to my resume. Then, 2 coding questions 10 minutes left for asking questions Question 1: Given a number, check if it is a palindrome boolean isPalindrome(int x)...
Had a telephonic interview with Bloomberg for Full time new grad position. 1) Project in School that interested you most? 2) Why Bloomberg? 3) return the length of longest unique substring. similar to...
Bloomberg New Grad Software Engineer
Status: New grad, BS Computer Engineering Position: Senior in College Location: Oahu, Hawaii Interview process (so far) Technical phone screen (1 hour): \t- Two Algorithm Questions. Very similar to the ones seen on Glassdoor Then...
Passed Bloomberg New Grad R1
Good news, my panic posting on here and r/leetcode seems to working so far. I passed my first round and have my second round scheduled really soon. First round went super well. Chatted with interviewe
Was expecting a standard algo question but was asked this OOD style problem in phone screen for Senior engineer. I couldn't understand it in the interview as the interviewer had did a very poor job of
Passed Rounds 2, 3, and HR Bloomberg New Grad NYC
As the title suggests, the CS gods were on my side today. Since I posted after passing R1, I figured I’d do the same now. I haven’t fully finished the process yet (EM scheduled for next week), but I w
Bloomberg SDE New Grad NYC 2026 - Entire Process Experience.
**I just want to give it back to the community from which I got many good interview overviews from many folks.** **1> Dates :** Applied : 11th Nov '25 request to schedule Round 1 : 20th Nov '25 Sch
Bloomberg SSE Bquant SF Interview Experience and Reject
Interview Experience Hello everyone, Sharing my interview experience with my LC fam. I applied online and received a recruiter email after a few weeks to discuss the opportunity. They liked my profi
Bloomberg Tech Phone Screen Interview Experience
I encountered a problem: given a deck of cards (allowing duplicate numbers), and two input parameters: the number of cards to draw k, and a target number. Draw k cards from the deck without replacemen
Bloomberg SR SWE Phone
Had a phone interview recently with Bloomberg Call was 1 hour long - Projects I worked on - Why Bloomberg? - Reconstruct Itinerary - Decode String - Had a good amount of time left to ask...
Bloomberg New Grad 2026 Head Count
I saw on zero2sudo’s Instagram story a few days ago that Bloomberg’s new-grad headcount is already at about 75% capacity. I have an interview scheduled for mid-January. What are the chances they’ll hi
What to Expect in the Bloomberg Phone Screen Round
The Bloomberg Software Engineer Phone Screen round has a specific calibration purpose distinct from other rounds in the loop. Across 183+ verified reports on LeakCode for this exact round type, the consistent expectations: clear scoping of the problem before diving into a solution, explicit reasoning about complexity, structured handling of edge cases, and the ability to discuss trade-offs between two reasonable approaches.
Reports tagged with the Phone Screen round at Bloomberg show recurring patterns in difficulty and topic distribution. The Phone Screen round is typically 45-60 minutes; the interviewer is calibrated against a specific rubric. The discriminator between candidates who advance and candidates who do not is rarely the final correctness of the answer. It is the path: did you clarify, did you verbalize your approach, did you handle edge cases, and did you communicate throughout.
How To Prepare for This Specific Round
Filter the questions below to the most recent reports (past 6-12 months). Questions tagged for this exact round type from this exact company at this exact role level are the highest-signal data available. Older reports may reference questions that have since rotated out of the company's pool.
Practice 4-6 representative problems from this set under timed conditions. The goal is not memorization (companies rotate questions); the goal is to internalize the patterns the interviewer typically reaches for and the depth of follow-up to expect. Reports on LeakCode also tag the typical follow-up depth at this round type, which is the discriminating signal between hire and no-hire calibration.
Phone Screen Round Timing and Format
The Phone Screen round at Bloomberg typically runs 45-60 minutes. Use the first 2-3 minutes to clarify requirements; you should never start coding or designing without verifying the input/output format, constraints, and edge cases out loud. Use the next 5-7 minutes to verbalize your approach before writing any code. The middle 20-30 minutes are implementation. Reserve the final 10 minutes for testing with concrete examples and discussing optimization or trade-offs.
Time budget discipline is one of the most reliable senior-vs-junior discriminators in this round. Strong candidates verbalize where they are in their budget out loud ("I've used about 20 minutes, I have 15 minutes left for testing and one optimization"). This signals engineering maturity to the interviewer and creates positive feedback they can capture in writing.
Common Failure Modes in This Round
Reports tagged "no hire" at Bloomberg Software Engineer Phone Screen commonly cite: coding silently without verbalizing approach, jumping to implementation before clarifying requirements, missing edge cases (empty input, single element, very large input), producing working code that the candidate cannot refactor when asked, and failing to test their solution with concrete examples before declaring done.
The single most predictive failure mode in 2025-2026 reports: not asking clarifying questions. Interviewers at all FAANG companies are explicitly trained to weight this dimension. Strong candidates ask 3-5 clarifying questions even on problems that look obvious; weak candidates dive into code immediately. The clarifying-question check is often the first signal recorded in the interviewer's notes.
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