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Updated Feb 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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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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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 4, 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 Sep 2010 (took a day)
I had an interview with Bloomberg in 2010 when I was applying for a full time role. There was an initial phone screen containing HR related questions. However after that there was a technical phone interview which lasted for about an hour. It consisted of questions on:
PERL regular expressions,
Java OOPS concepts
Virtual functions
MVC Frameworks and more
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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 3, 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 Jan 2012 (took 3 weeks)
Simple phone interview that took 10 minutes: discuss summer internship, something that is going on in the news...
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Project Manager at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 6, 2012 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 2012 in New York, NY (took a day)
A job was posted online on a Friday evening. On Monday morning at 7am, i submitted my resume via the company website. I possess advanced skills in 100% of the required qualifications.
At 8am, I received an auto reply from HR thanking me for my application. At 9am, I received an 'donotreply' email from HR stating that I would not be being considered as an applicant.
It's incredulous to me that my qualifications could possible have been properly reviewed. This job is either not really available or HR needs to step up it's act...either way, it reflects extremely poor business practices.
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I Applied Online.
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Financial Applications Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 1, 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 Dec 2011 (took a day)
1. Online test
2. Phone interview based on your resume and education background. Ask brain teasers and some finance questions.
3. Go through your resume and ask quite a lot of technical questions. Most of them are about programming. Then if you passed the first round technical interview, you would see a senior manager and he will ask more about your resume and some harder technical questions.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 months)
Applied online and got an email back a few weeks later about setting up a phone interview, that was very basic why us, why you, etc. Then they brought me out to San Fran a little over a month after the phone interview. During this time they "forgot" to tell me that no one was going to be at the airport to pick me up and none of my expenses were going to be covered ( ended up with over 200$ in bills due to two 60$ taxi rides), only company I've interviewed with in the past year that doesn't do both of those. Day of the interview I get ther and watch someone do customer service online basically edit copy edit paste formulas to clients, this is what the job is. Then had an interview and was asked why us, why you, and to explain a process to them, it last about 20 mins. Then that was it and basically felt like I was kicked out of the building. Lucky for me Bloomberg's travel branch suggested that I fly out of San Fran at 7 pm that night and since I had no idea how long the interview process was going to take I said ok....I was at the air port by 10am. It was just an awful trip that could have been avoided had Bloomberg done a better job of the basics like knowing what they are doing. The job is bad and the interview process was the worst I've been a part of.
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Reason for Declining
Because of how poorly Bloomberg took care of me and how thoughtless they were with their planning.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Quantitative Analyst at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 (took a day)
It is a 2:1 interview. Two interviewers and me. Based on my resume, they asked me a lot of C++ programming techs. And they improvise, extend to other not related at all techs, detailed to memory locating, etc. Then brain teaser. It is quite okay, but they want to show your whole thinking process. I ended up gave them not a standard answer, and explain to them step by step why this works. They pay great attention to my thinking process. Last, they gave me a problem to write the usdo code. And comment, ask why I did this on every step. It is a little bit difficult to concentrate, but I guess it is how the working environments are, you constantly dealing with people, and coworkers. It ended up badly with not remembering some library code, and not familiar with the hardware related coding.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 1, 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 Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
First had to go through an online IQ-type test, then about a week later was scheduled for a phone interview. The phone interview mostly consisted of technical questions and skill-based knowledge, with a little bit of work history. After successfully getting through the phone interview, I was invited for an on-site interview in New York. Bloomberg took care of all the travel arrangements, including flight, hotel, and a car from the airport. The building was very nice and easy to find. I was given security clearance to go upstairs where I met the HR person who was my contact for the day who brought me to my two technical interviewers. They asked a lot of programming and algorithm questions, and one design questions. Some of the questions were kind of tough, as they were some things that I learned years ago and hadn't needed or touched since. I would recommend that you really brush up on your fundamentals before the interview. I got an e-mail the next day saying that I didn't get the position, so I'm happy that they got back to me so quickly.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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