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SQL String Ops and a 20-Minute OOD Screen

BloombergData Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Sep 2025

The role was Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineering. I couldn't really find much interview experience for this role online, so let me contribute one here. The interviewer was a woman, not very enthusiastic. 40 minutes, 2 questions — the first was SQL, the second felt more like OOD. The first SQL question wasn't too hard logically, the hard part was that it tested string operations. I roughly…

Shared by a candidate · reported Sep 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.