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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 Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted May 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 Apr 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 3 weeks)
questions in C about data types, analyse bit manipulation functions, and write a function that handled strings.
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The interview consisted of a Skills Test and a Phone Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Apr 18, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 1 week)
Applied only - Then technical online test
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Skills Test.
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Global Technical Support At Bloomberg L P (GTEC) at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Apr 4, 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 Apr 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
Had a call from them to check my interest on a position I applied for on their career website.
In the same call we had a 25minutes phone interview with the usual... what do you know about Bloomberg, what do you expect from this position, where do you see yourself in 5 years from now...
Having passed the interview I got invited to attend an assessment day for GTEC position. 5 hours total.
They called me right after the assessment day to let me know they want me to go in one more day and talk to some supervisor...still in the process
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.
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Data Analyst at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Apr 3, 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 Mar 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 weeks)
I applied online and two weeks later I was invited for a telephone interview. The questions were typical, Why Bloomberg? What does the Financial Data Department do?
The only question that I found strange was How Bloomberg collects data for Mutual funds.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 13, 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 Jan 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
The interview process consisted of:
1. sending your cv through their careers website
2. completing an online computer science / programming test
3. three interviews on-site
1. Not much to say about the first phase, you send the documents and they get back to you - possibly with a link to their test (for which you have about 3 days to complete).
2. The test consists of 30 multiple choice questions (5 answers). There's 3 minutes for each question and you can't go back. I don't know if speed is a factor in your assessment. At the end of the test you get your result. Again, in a couple of days they get back to you and if you were successful, they invite you to their office.
3. The first interview is with two junior developers, the second with a senior developer and the final one is with HR.
The technical questions involve much rather low-level concepts. Implementing compilers, garbage collection, data structures, solving algorithmic problems, analysing complexity, memory management in C is a basic list of issues that we've covered in the two interviews. Know your stuff and be confident - they will challenge your choices and decisions even if they're right. They want to be sure you know why you made your choice, that there is a good reason and that you can explain that reason.
Generally, I liked the process very much. It's down to earth, you don't need to write a novel answering pointless questions in a 50-page application form, the technical questions aren't concerned with knowledge of syntax but with concepts. The people I had contact very extremely nice and provided exhaustive answers to all my questions (a lot of them).
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 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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Data Analyst at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 11, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 4+ weeks)
First interview is over the phone with simple questions like: "Why Bloomberg?"
2nd interview was in in the office in front of 2 people where there were more typical interview questions on the role and company.
3rd interview was with a couple of managers that I'd work for. Slightly harder questions than before but still typical interview questions that you can find on google and prepare for.
4th interview was just a sign off from head of department and HR where salary and benefits were discussed.
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Negotiation Details
Didn't negotiate as it was a entry-level role. Since starting I have realised that there's no point in trying to improve salary. Upon leaving, in the exit interview the mangers do like to hint that they had the ability to improve your salary substantially. But I've been at the company long enough and know enough people who've been in these situations to know that it NEVER happens in my department.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Data Analyst at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 5, 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 Jan 2012 in City of London, England (United Kingdom) (took 4+ weeks)
I applied to Bloomberg via their web page and was very surprised that they got back to me in a short period. I think it took about 2 weeks for them to invite me for the first phone interview.
The first interview was conducted by a HR person who asked me the basic motivational questions:
- Tell me about yourself and your experience?
- What do you know about Bloomberg?
- Why did you apply for this position and Bloomberg?
- Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
- Why do you want to work with finance?
However, in addition to the basic motivational questions I was also asked what I knew about the position (what is it that a data analyst for the global data funds department does and why? ) and if I knew what the current events on the financial markets.
I am very happy to say that I passed the first interview and got the second interview shortly after. So far I have had four interviews with four different managers at Bloomberg. For the other three interviews the questions were very similar to the above mentioned ones. My advice for anyone who has an interview with Bloomberg is to practice on the motivational questions but also do your research for the position you have applied for and make sure to be up to date with the current happenings on the financial markets.
Interview Questions
- Why did you apply for this position and Bloomberg?
- Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
- Why do you want to work with finance?
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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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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