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Simplified Grep, Friend-Request Math, and a BQ Round

BloombergSoftware Engineer · HR Screen · Dec 2025

Round 1: implement a simplified version of grep — find lines in a file containing a specific string, and also account for extensibility to flags. I just honestly clarified requirements first, then wrote the parsing plus the string matching. The focus of this problem isn't really the algorithm, it's whether you can write clean, extensible code. Round 2: given an array of ages, compute the total nu…

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