Bloomberg Software Engineer Interview Experience — Two Passed Screens, Filled Openings, and a Virtual Onsite

Bloomberg·Software Engineer·Aug 2026
OnsiteTechnical ScreenRejectedmedium

At Bloomberg, you can move forward with at most two teams at the same time, and each team's phone screen is independent. Basically, one job posting corresponds to one opening, and those openings fill pretty quickly. I passed both phone screens, but both openings had been filled. The recruiter helped forward my resume to a sister team of one of those teams that was hiring, so I didn't need another phone screen and went into that sister team's virtual onsite.
Phone screen 1: OOD, designing shuffling and dealing playing cards and comparing five-card hands. I don't think I'd seen Bloomberg ask this kind of question in the interview reports I'd read before.
Phone screen 2: LeetCode 445 and 394. Thanks to the interviewer for going easy on me.
After passing Bloomberg's phone screen, there's a virtual onsite, and after passing the virtual onsite, there's an in-person onsite. I was rejected at the virtual onsite. I'll post a separate report about that virtual onsite.
Good luck with your interviews, everyone!

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Interview at a glance

Company
Bloomberg
Role
Software Engineer
Rounds
Technical Screen → Onsite
Outcome
Rejected
Difficulty
medium
Interview date
Aug 2026
Questions from this interview
1 question

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