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Updated Feb 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)

I applied online for the position, by completing a form of questions and sending my CV. They got in touch with me about a month later they proposed me a day and time for a phone interview. I asked them to re-schedule it and they offered me another day and time.

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Interviewed Nov 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 weeks)

I submitted application online on both my university`s career website and Bloomberg career site. One week later I received a notification of completing an online assessment test. After finished the test, I was asked to schedule an phone interview. Two weeks later in the phone interview, I was first asked about why Bloomberg? Why do you discontinue current interest and choose financial industry? Then asked some technical questions about c++, linked list, hash table and BST. After that, three brain teaser questions. Overall, the interview is not difficult, but I think I screwed up because I did badly in behavior questions

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How do you reverse a linked list

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There are 10 boxes of apples. Each apple in the boxes weights 1 pound, except that one of the boxes contains bad apples, which weights 0.9 pound each. You are given a digital weight (not a scale), and you can take apples out of the boxes. what is the minimum time of weighs to find out which box has bad apples?
I gave one solution of 3 times using divide and conquer, but the interviewer said that 1 step is possible. So I couldn`t come up with the solution.

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How to design a good hash function if the key is a person`s name

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2011 in New York, NY (took 3 weeks)

Interviewd with 2 team managers then got invited after lunch to interview with 2 more. 1 interviewer has been working there for 12 years. He didn't ask me any questions at all and hardly talked to me. Maybe he just had a bad day, but I though it was rude since it was his part of his job to interview me.

I wouldn't recommend the analytics program because in reality what it means is - you are going to be sitting at the computer taking chats all day. If a client has any issue you resolve it, make phone calls to clients and help them figure out how to find information of the terminal, etc. Not a good way to gain marketable skills and experience. This should not be called "analytics program". They should call it a "support representative program" or something like that.

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Why do you want to work here?

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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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Interviewed Dec 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 1 week)

I was asked why Bloomberg? What does Bloomberg do? What do I do to keep up with current afffairs? What makes a good sales person? What s the current interest rate? Summarize a recent news story.

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What is footsie 100

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Interviewed Dec 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)

First phone interview lasted about 20 minutes. Questions were mostly situational (i.e. name a time at work where you came across a problem and solved it, how do you think customer service should be handled, why Bloomberg?) No technical questions, or really about finance whatsoever. Mostly WHY Bloomberg, what intrigued you about the position, and why sales/analytics? Got offered a second round interview, which is in a few days at the main office in NYC.

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Tell me about a problem and a creative solution you came up with to fix it?

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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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Interviewed Jan 2011 (took 2 weeks)

There were four rounds of interviews. The first round of interview was conducted by the human resource department. Questions consist of typical interview questions such as what are my strength and weakness and why bloomberg. Second round interview was one to one, questions include asking about the country's expected inflation rate and expected growth rate. Also, customer service related questions were asked.

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what is the expected growth rate of the country this year?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)

Hello,

I have an Interview at Bloomberg in London next week for the position of Financial Product Sales and Analytics. The Interview will consist of 40 mins competency based qs and then on the job shadowing. I had a telephone interview and I was asked questions such as.. Why Bbg? Why Sales? What do you know about what bbg does? This difference between an equity and a bond? I was also asked to talk about a recent financial news item I found interesting and the effect on the financial markets.

Does anybody know what I can expect from the next round of interviews? Will it be the same style questions? Will I have to make a sales pitch?

Any advice would be really appreciated.

Thanks

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Why Bbg

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Difference between an equity and a bond?

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Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jun 2010 in New York, NY (took 1+ week)

two rounds - 1st with direct manager, 2nd with TL and higher manager and coworker

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there were no difficult questions

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was well organized and fast

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Sep 2011 (took 5 weeks)

Multiple interviews.

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if it takes 29 frogs, 29 minutes to catch 29 flies. How many frogs does it take to catch 87 flies if you gave them 87 minutes?

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Add the numbers from 1-100. i.e. 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 ......

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Rough

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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 4+ weeks)

Applied online, followed by a skill assessment, a phone interview, and finally an in-house interview. The in-house interview consists of 3 rounds, R&D, HM, and HR.