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Bloomberg - Software Engineer (Grad), London

Round 1

Questions: I was given a n-ary tree and was asked to find the path with minimum cost to a leaf node. The total cost for the path would be the summation of the values of all nodes. I was asked to implement the class, take input, and return the path as well.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 2

Questions: The question was about a Welsh dictionary, wherein you are given a dictionary and you have to sort the words based on the order of that dictionary. The follow-up was that we don't know the maximum length of an alphabet/string in the dictionary.

Candidate's Approach

Explained the approach and made changes to the code.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 3

Questions: This was a system design interview where I had to design a system showing the top N news articles.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

Had back and forth discussion with a senior engineer but didn’t clear it.