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Updated May 9, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Financial Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted May 9, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in City of London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 days)
Initial 30 min phone interview followed by tour/shadowing and 1 panel interview, followed by second round final interview with head of dept. Work culture is very unique - if you research this and mention it in an interview you should be in. They love suck ups.
Negotiation Details
No negotiations possible - dont even try!
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Financial Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Apr 16, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 (took 1 week)
The first round was a group interview. HR arranged a presentation to showcase what Bloomberg was about. Then we were divided into groups. Each group was presented with a scenario - something like what you would do when you face a customer complaint or how would you convince to buy your product. Very sales-oriented.
The second round was a panel interview. The interviewers were pretty friendly.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Financial Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 26, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took 2 days)
After applying online, I received an email invinting me for a phone interview. The interview consisted of the description of the job, basic questions, such as questions about jobs that I have held in the past; "What do you know about Bloomberg?". The interview took about 15minutes. Two days after the phone interview I was invited to go to NY for a face to face interview.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Financial Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 24, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took 2 weeks)
The HR was not professional in the second round interview. She was out for lunch and no one in the office was informed of my interview. In the end, I didn't have enough time to complete my shadowing with one of the generalist.
Interview Questions
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Financial Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 22, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
Basic questions like why you want to work for Bloomberg, why sales, why are you leaving your current job, etc. They then called two days later and set up an in person interview. A week after that they cancelled it saying "we are reviewing our headcount". Never even got in the door.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Financial Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 16, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
The interview went well, answered questions well. The interviewers were very friendly and professional.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Financial Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 13, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in City of London, England (United Kingdom) (took 1 week)
Applied through the careers web site attaching a cover letter and a CV. There were two or three questions about why I want to work for the company and and to outline my relevant skills and experiences. After two days received an e-mail from HR to schedule a phone interview in the the next couple of days. The phone interview consisted of basic questions. Tell me about your self etc. However, I would suggest to prepare answers on questions about competitors and the most important current economic affairs. The next day received negative update on my application.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Financial Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 24, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in New York, NY (took 4+ weeks)
I was directed to apply online through my university career website. A couple weeks after I applied, I received an email asking me when I was free for a 15 min phone interview. I set it up for a week later, and it consisted of a few basic questions such as Why Bloomberg? That night itself I received an email inviting me to a regional final round interview event a week later. They took care of flights and put me in a really nice hotel. The event had around 25-30 kids there. All the event consisted of was a presentation on the company and terminal and a 30 minute interview with two people. The questions were basic such as Why sales? and What makes a good salesmen? They also asked about what financial news I was following, so be prepared for that. I received a phone call with an offer about a week later.
Interview Questions
Negotiation Details
No negotiation at the internship level
Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Financial Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 26, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in City of London, England (United Kingdom) (took 3 months)
Interview was long as I had my phone interview in November and then was invited for onsite interview in december. the final round interview was then end of January. the phone interview was straight forward and was more on my background and interests on bloomberg. Whilst the onsite interview consisted of two seniors from each department then on the final interview it was with managers of the departments. again focus was on my background but also commercial awareness. since the euro zone crises was new, i was asked on what i understood about it.
at first i had a really positive feeling of Bloomberg and had heard good things about the work environment and the people. but having seen for myself and spent time with the people, I realised its only the new people that were good to work with but some managers (if not all) were very rude and arrogant even global compared to when i worked in a top investment bank. it clearly made sense why most people that joined them only stayed a few months and moved to better companies. Bloomberg is simply used as a foot in to the banking industry ( or during recession to get any job to pay the bills).
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Financial Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 17, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 (took 1 week)
received screening call, then invited to the office for group interviews
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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