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Updated Apr 22, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Apr 22, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Singapore (Singapore) (took a day)
I was invited to the second round of the interview. The HR recruiter was very friendly and gave some tips along the way. Prepare yourself for questions which are very customer-oriented for the second round.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 21, 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 Feb 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
Received a phone interview after applying online. First round phone interview was with someone from HR. She had to reschedule the phone interview with me day of because she had a meeting at our originally scheduled time. She then called me 20 minutes late (which is unheard of) for our actual phone interview, did not apologize for being late, did not give a reason, and proceeded to give me 10 minutes of her time before hanging up and said I'd hear back in a week. She seemed hurried and completely disinterested. Terrible experience, worst phone interview experience, and I did not expect a second round.
Was invited for second round to Bloomberg's NYC office for the position in San Francisco because it was closer to my current location. They paid for my flight. Day of interview, I first shadowed someone for about 30 minutes. Then, I had a teleconference interview with manager from San Francisco office and then a 1:1 interview with a manager at the NYC office.
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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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Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Jan 21, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took 1+ week)
Applied online, got back to me the next day to set up a phone interview. Phone interview about 2 weeks after initial contact. Basic questions about resume, why you want to be in sales and why finance. Biggest issue in the economy. What does Bloomberg do. What does the terminal do?
Paying for me to fly out to NYC and putting me up in a hotel. I assume that there will be a ton of people at the interview. Currently in commercial banking trying to get into the financial services industry seems like a good way to break in, and network.
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Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Jan 17, 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 (took a day)
2 managers or team leaders asked few questions about CV in detail.
They were very interested in how much you know about Bloomberg.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Jan 10, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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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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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Dec 19, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
Phone Interview --> Office tour, Interview with two senior officers. A young office and vibe, but that's presumably due to high turnover. The job seemed very irritating and I was very turned off by it. Just couldn't imagine having to answer other peoples questions all day, would rather be asking the questions.
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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Dec 1, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Sep 2011 in Central District (Hong Kong) (took a day)
BBRG puts a lot of emphasis on connections in the recruitment process. I had applied several times to BBRG, never with a call back and only when an acquaintance of mine referred me to the HR woman conducting the interview was I sent an invitation to the recruitment process. Later, I found out that BBRG employees providing referrals get a commission if we are successful in the hiring process.
Anyway, the recruitment process i entered into was a group interview around 10 people sitting on each side of the tables with one hr woman sitting in the middle conducting the presentation of the company and asking us (kind of like in a high school setting) "who knew this fact, or that fact". And then a sales and analytics employee enters the room and gives her opinions and perspectives about the role. She mentioned she wanted to go to London badly so the company was working on getting her visa. So half an hour after, we were asked to give a min introduction, who you are and why you came to Bloomberg. then we were divided into two groups, given a task of selling a smart phone to an old lady who had no intention of using a smart phone (so it was a hard sell). after brainstorming with colleagues, we acted in a role-play with HR, who was acting as a very stubborn and unfriendly grandma. Anyway I didn't get a call back because i didn't make any good points in this role-play. It's important to not shine per say, but be your self, think intelligently and logically about the situation you are role-playing in and how you would react in real life instead of in the pressurised circumstances where you might behave erratically and come off looking less intelligent than the graduate that you really are :P
note: the HR lady mentioned they will grill us in later stages (two-three interviews with seniors) about why we want the role, how much we know about bbrg. not to fret though, instead of concentrating on their intimidations, think back to why you wanted this role in the first place.I think they have a perception that a lot of people who are not serious about the role apply to this position, the ones that are using the company and not completely want this role so they are wasting their time. so you just have be friendly and likeable and come across as your genuine self and why you want this role.
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Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Dec 3, 2011 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
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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 Oct 2011 (took 2 months)
Applied Online, Phone Interview, Group Interview with around 10-15 people, 1 on 1 Team Leader Interview, Hong Kong Manager and Sales Team Leader group interview and finally, a interview with Asia Pac manager and sales team manager. Interview was a good experience, very education if you did your homework. Some market knowledge is required. Stay positive, smile and be proactive and you should do fine.
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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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Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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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 Nov 2011 (took 3 weeks)
I got a phone interview after 3 weeks' waiting. The questions were very generic, including,
why bbg? why u? why this position? how do u know about our product? any recent news that u r following?
It took me around 20 mins and interviewer very nice. in the end the interviewer told me what r the next rounds interviews r about if I pass this round, and also inform me that results would release in 3 days. hope i can make it to the next round.
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