Bloomberg Senior Developer interview questions

Recruiter screen, then technical screen where I was asked LC242 (valid anagram) and solved it. Setup the virtual onsite which was 1 technical, 1 "system design" (not really), 1 manager, 1 hr screening. So I show up to the technical interview and the interviewer asks me questions about previous projects for the first 20 minutes... Then I solved LC20 (Valid Parentheses, with a twist) and with about 18 minutes left in the interview, the interviewer just says "yea I don't feel like asking another question".... Okay? Same thing for the system design interview, first 20 minutes are the interviewers asking questions about my previous projects. Then, the interviewer took 10 minutes (not exaggerating) to introduce the challenge which realistically could have been explained in 2 minutes. So, I was left with 30 minutes to solve the problem. I started to lay out high-level system design and the interviewers pretty much immediately wanted me to go into database design + schema. That's most of what I talked about and then it ended. They didn't seem interested in normal system design topics, they just wanted to see how you'd design the DB. I just feel like the interviewers shouldn't be asking questions for 20 minutes in the beginning. I also think they should call the system design interview something else because it's not system design, it's DB design. Overall, was not impressed with the interviewers during the virtual onsite.

A recruiter reached out over on LinkedIn and I applied. The screening round was held in 1st week of December, it had 2 questions didn't feel they were too difficult just very long questions, the interviewer was nice and the key is to communicate and explain before diving into the problem. Got a call the next day to schedule onsite interviews, one good thing they schedule onsite on 2 different days and if day 1 doesn't go well they cancel the 2nd day's interview which is a time saver to be honest. For virtual onsite day 1 was asked a question on graph gave a brute force or what i could think of initially with some observations required a hint from the interviewer took the hint and explained the optimized approach and coded it. the 2nd interview on Day 1 was system design around the key is to talk more and start from a basic system rather than going for something extravagant. They focussed on the rest endpoints and Database schema and how to optimize the searching in the system. Got an email from the recruiter the next day that the interviewers were pleased and they wanted to continue with the 2nd day's interview. The 2nd day interview was with senior manager and team lead which was behavioral didn't know what went wrong but a rejection email from the recruiter the next day stating at this time doesn't feel like a match based on my skillset.