Bloomberg Software Engineer System Design Questions

Saw this question tagged for Bloomberg. I am having some difficulty understanding this and code seems to long too and my interview is tomorrow. How likely is it that for new grad they ask this questio

I recently went through a virtual onsite and had 2 rounds of interviews, all coding questions were Bloomberg LC tagged and I was asked one System design question that went...

Hi everyone, I just got the invitation for a Bloomberg interview and wanted to get some insight from those who've been through the process. A bit about me: I'm an experienced C++ developer, and I'd be

Hi, I have an upcoming onsite interview at Bloomberg (New Jersey). I completed two Technical Virtual Onsite rounds which were mostly Leetcode style coding problems I have have an upcoming Systems Desi

1st Coding Round: https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-intervals/ 2. 2nd Coding Round https://leetcode.com/problems/number-of-islands/ 3. System Design The question was to design a Bloomberg Terminal feature for retrieving top K viewed news articles by users for a predefined time...

Problem Statement: Design System where User can create alerts on StockOptions Raise an Alert When "APPL" stock transaction happens for more than $100 Raise an Alert When "GOOGL" stock transaction...

Initial 15 minutes- Introduction (Me + Both the interviewers) Next 10 minutes- Resume Discussion+Experience in Hackathons+Internship+Projects Next 10 minutes- Question Discussion+Approach Formulation Next 20 minutes- Coding+Optimization+Time complexity (very detail) Next 10 minutes- Questions to...

Had SSE interview at Bloomberg. Phone: Remove All Adjacent Duplicates in String II ( Stream of Inputs, the input may not be coming in a sequence. But we have to store in a...

Position: SWE Location: London Result: Rejection I recently had an onsite interview with Bloomberg with two of their employees. One of them asked https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-anagram/, I clarified some points like what characters are being...

My friend got asked this for a Bloomberg Systems Design interview recently. The start of the interview however mainly focused on the algorithmic approach to the system, which is what...

I will have my interview at BB (the HLD design) and I really don’t know how to prepare because my uni doesn’t teach cloud. Where should I start from / good resources recommendations?

Hey everyone, I’m currently in the final round for the Bloomberg Software Engineer (Early Career) role in New York. I already passed the 3 technical interviews and now have two more — one with a recru

KeyValue datastore with begin,commit and rollback. Question is the same as discussed here. It also has some good solutions in the discussion forum. https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/279913/bloomberg-onsite-key-value-store-with-transactions You are expected to implement and run the code...

Hi everyone, I had this problem on my interview with Bloomberg. Design a mailbox which should do the two functions: 1. send a message. 1. retrieve all messages of a user. After I finished...

I was asked to design a rule based alert system. Rules can be configured like below: 1. If price of A stock goes higher than a threshold then send alert 2. If price...

Design rules management system. sample rules: A = B + C AND B C > 1000 B C > 1000 A and B = True User can Create / Modify / View rules. Actions and events...

Onsite Interviews Interview #1: Q1. Find longest substring with distinct characters. https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-substring-without-repeating-characters/ Q2. Implement a subway system with fucntionality for SwipeIn, SwipeOut, GetAvgTime https://leetcode.com/problems/design-underground-system/ Interview #2: Q1. Design a lottery system implementing AddUser and PickUser. Q2....

I recently appeared for bloomberg onsite interview and thought to share my experience. 1. 1st Round \ta. Coin change problem - Implemented the solution however did not optimize the code and interviewer...

Design a system to analyze prices from 10 exchanges tracking 100000 stocksthat can service requests for the prices of a given stock at each exchange in sorted order.

How to go about designing a real time system where all data is needed for time series? The server should be the one pushing the data instead of having the...