a telephone interview, first ask your background, you what you learned, and then tell them a market news that interests you, finally write a summary in Chinese ( as I applied for Chinese team). It takes around 30 minutes. The intervier is very nice, and I passed the telephone interview.
short
difficult
technical questions
not very friendly
but the recruitment team and their ambassadors were nice
case study
expected to have high level of finance knowledge even if they sell you the idea that you can come from any background they ask technical questions with no preparation time and are surprised if you don't know them.
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Mar 2017
Interview
1. Video Interview
Five questions to go through
2.Telephone Interview
For checking language fluency
3. On-site Interview
one hour face to face interview with 2 people from sales department and analytics department respectively
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How much you know financial markets? Say sth about recent markets movements exclude political factors