Studied most of the problems in the lats 6 months tagged for Bloomberg

8 YOE - Backend Software Engineer

Phone Screen:

Encode string that has a count after it sees consecutive characters.
For example: aabaacaaa = a2b1a2c1a3

https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/314733/Bloomberg-or-Output-data-from-a-stream-in-order

(code needed to compile and run)

Onsite:

Coding Round:
https://leetcode.com/problems/trapping-rain-water/
https://leetcode.com/problems/employee-free-time/

Coding Round:
How would you design a kitchen chef that catters food with these features:
Chef makes food and puts in queue in order.
If user has no specific requests then take the top dish
If user has a specific request take the next availible dish in the queue that is requested.
(this is kind of like a linked hash set that maintains order)
https://leetcode.com/problems/two-city-scheduling/

Behavioral:
Asked questions about projects I did in the past, went in detail about the projects.
Why Bloomberg? (this was asked through out my time interviewing with Bloomberg)