I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
I interview for the position in the London office. The interview process - at least in my specific case - was extremely long (around 5 months) and stressful because of that.
It's structured as follows:
- Numerical Reasoning Test;
- Phone interview (October), which is merely motivational (very few technical questions) and lasts for about 45minutes;
- Face-to-face with Analytics and Sales TLs (November). In this specific interview you get grilled with technical questions - so be prepared. Both situational cases and technical questions (define hedging, what is a call option, what is a straddle, sell me an option). In my opinion this was the hardest interview because interviewers are trained to make you feel under pressured and to a certain extent uncomfortable. It lasted for about 1h and 30m;
- Face-to-face with Managers (February). I loved this interview. I felt like they really wanted to get to know me as a person rather than as a candidate to test my fit in the Bloomberg culture.
Overall, tough and long process. But, in the end, I was offered the position so I guess it was worth the pain. (?)
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
they had several steps:
- Online tests - mathematical one
- Online video interview - 7 questions about the company and aspirations/ the position/ the industry
- Shadowing
- 2 interviews - 1 with manager and 1 with two people from the department
overall is a quite long process and you have to be really motivated to pursue a career in finance
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
7 questions about the company and aspirations/ the position/ the industry
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Hongkong) in Jan 2017
Interview
1st round: Video Interview- just a few simple questions, not behavioural type
2nd round: Phone interview with HR- questions based on your CV
3rd round: AC for 3 hours, 5 tasks
1. Sales Role Play
2. Role Play: Solving client's problem
3. Pair work
4. Bloomberg terminal
5. Group Interview- read an article and discuss about it
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Bloomberg?
Why Analytics and Sales?
Introduction of yourself.
What do you know about Bloomberg?
Tell me a time that you received excellent customer service. What is good customer service?