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Recruiter Promised Easy-Medium, Got String-Heavy SQL and Rushed OOD Coding

BloombergSenior Software Engineer - Data Engineering · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Jul 2025

I couldn't find much interview experience for this specific role online, so I'm contributing mine here. The role was Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineering. The interviewer wasn't very enthusiastic. 40 minutes, two questions — the first was SQL, the second felt more like an OOD (object-oriented design) question. The logic in the first SQL question wasn't actually that hard — what was hard wa…

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