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Updated Feb 10, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Global Customer Support at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 10, 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 in New York, NY (took 3 days)
Applied online on a Monday and received a request for a phone interview on Wednesday, the interview took place on Friday. I spoke to two team members, one who had been in the Global Customer Support department for a year and worked in training and one who worked in the shadowing program. They were both friendly, engaging, and adept at the screening process. They asked questions concerning my background, strengths/weaknesses, interest in the position, and knowledge of Bloomberg and customer service. While I felt our conversation went well, I received an email from HR later in the day informing me that I was not the best person for the role.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in New York, NY (took a day)
First they asked questions about my background and then I got basic code problem to ask me to print all repeating characters into the form " 'the character' '#' ' the number' ". Then a problem about data structure and the time complexity and how to modify the data structure and get a better performance in time complexity.
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I got the interview through a College or University.
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Data Analyst at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 9, 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 Jan 2012 (took a day)
Really quick. Spoke for no more than 15 minutes. HR asked "Why this position", "Why am I pursuing and MBA" and "Tell me about yourself".
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 (took 2 days)
I had a very negative experience with these recruiters. They called me to the side as I was walking by at a campus job fair, and started asking me technical questions before even asking for my name or resume. After a few, they put me down for an interview. The recruiters then showed up 30 minutes late to the interview, and the actual questions themselves were a nightmare. They asked me stuff that just wasn't feasible to write as code for an interview question, and I somehow made it through the first round and had to come back the next day. They were late once again, and the process repeated. They seemed to get extremely frustrated when I couldn't write the implementation to an entire threadpool in C on the spot. That's not even an exaggeration, it was the first question they asked me.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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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 2 days)
Talked to Bloomberg at University technical job fair, the recruiter liked me and asked me to come in for an interview later. First round consisted of 2 on 1 interview, fully technical. N people seated at a round table. Remove every Kth person, until only one remains (code solution). Populate the siblings of children in a tree.
Second round was with team leader. Logic based questions, and questions on STL, more problems, and questions about my experiences in the past.
Asked to come in the next day as well for 2 other interviews, one with HR, and the final with another senior developer in R&D. One technical question on a current problem they were facing, why bloomberg, talked about salary and details. Recieved offer immediately after that round.
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Very generous offer, relocation stipend as well. Flown to NY for a tour day.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Financial Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)
The phone interview lasted about 45 minutes and consisted of personality questions, followed by a run-down of sales and financial experiences on my resume. The position was for a job in San Francisco, for their sales and analytics internship position. It sounded like Bloomberg is looking for sales experience related to finance. Toward the end of the interviewing process, the interviewer asked me what I knew about Bloomberg and any of the divisions I am interested in. Make sure you study the company's history and current investment tools for investing. Bloomberg, L.P. has a great name in the finance industry, so I found the internship process to be competitive.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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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 Dec 2011 in New York, NY (took 4+ weeks)
After applying through Bloomberg's website, I received an email about a week or two later saying that I had made it through a round of resume screening and I was asked to take an online skills assessment test. This test consisted of basic IQ sort of things (shape rotations/reflections), or things you might see on the LSAT exam (given 8 statements, what order did the horses place in a race?)
2-3 days after the IQ Test, I was asked to set up a phone interview which took place the following week. Because I don't have a computer science background, they asked "Get to know you" type questions about my past experience, and then asked targeted questions that are basically round-about ways to get you to consider computer science problems.
Within a week I had been asked for an on-site interview, which I went to a few weeks later. This interview consisted of three stages. In the first, I met with three interviewers who asked me questions to gauge my understanding of algorithms and high level design, and they asked me to write down a program in full syntax for the language I had the most experience in (Java). In the second round, I met with a senior member and he asked questions to gauge my interest and fit with the company, as well as to gauge my ability to transition into an IT position from an engineering background (What makes you think you would be happy doing this type of job every day when your experience is primarily in research?) The third and last round consisted of meeting with a man from HR and he asked very general questions, then gave me a super-brief tour around 2 floors of the building.
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Negotiation Details
I did not negotiate. I saw the salary range that had been posted on this website and thought it was fair, so I accepted it.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Financial Applications Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 7, 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 Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
It took 45 minutes. First, discuss my background, experience, my interest and why I choose Bloomberg. Then, 3 IQ/Intelligence questions.
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The interview consisted of an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Financial Software Summer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 6, 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 Dec 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
Was a nice experience, depending upon your language preference one will be asked 30 MCQ's each to be solved in 90 seconds, for me it was C so the question were mainly based on pointers and structures and were mainly like : Find the output or put in the missing instruction.
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The interview consisted of a Skills Test.
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Sales & Analytics (Not Analyst!!!!) at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 5, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 4+ weeks)
I applied online, phone interview was arranged in 2 weeks time.2 weeks later I was invited for the assessment centre. The only important bit is the 2 to 1 interview on the day. You can enjoy yourself for the rest of the so called assessment day. The interview questions were easy but I was not prepared that is all. So if you want to get the job just study and rehearse the usual interview questions, be confident , rest will be fine.
I could not get an offer but I believe I could do this job twice as good as the newly graduated teenagers who already work in Bloomberg.
By the way, people please do not believe when your friends working in Bloomberg tell you that they are Analysts. You are never an analyst in Bloomberg, you are a client service representative/ salesperson no matter in which department you work and you constantly deal with capricious bankers. It has nothing to do with analyst job.
Good luck with your applications! :)
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