Technical Screen

Top K Frequent Elements Phone Screen

BloombergSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Mar 2026

The first round was a standard phone technical screen — coding only, no behavioral questions. The difficulty is generally on the higher end of LeetCode medium, and the focus is on whether your data structure choice is reasonable and whether your code is clean. The question I got was to design a data structure that supports insert, delete, and returning the current Top K most frequent elements. Th…

Shared by a candidate · reported Mar 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.