I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Aug 2014
Interview
Process in 3 stages: 1. telephone interview, 2. face2face (or video conference) and a 3rd and final face2face interview.
Why finance and why Bloomberg (I studied marketing so it was sort of hard to convince them why I want to go into finance now)? What can Bloomberg give you what other companies cannot give you? Sell a Samsung phone to an iPhone owner and lover. Mention 3 arguments why Bloomberg should take you on.
Telephone interview:
It is rather short and they are bombarding you with questions just like why Bloomberg, why finance, what does Bloomberg do, who are our competitors, why would a company use a Bloomberg terminal, give an overview over the Ukraine crisis.
1. F2F interview:
Similar questions as telephone interview, digging a bit deeper. They really want to know why you want to work for them and what your sales and people skills are. If you don't have a finance background be honest and tell them you're not an expert but you are keen to learn and be prepared to answer why you want to learn more about finance! They also ask you about different scenarios at the help desk and how you would handle them.
I am still waiting to hear back from them whether I made it to the 3rd stage or not!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why finance now and not marketing or communications (which are my degrees)?
What does Bloomberg give you that another company couldn't give you?
What other jobs did you apply for so far?
I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jun 2024
Interview
6 month interview cycle so it takes a while to actually talk to managers. The trader was not the nicest and would laugh after interviews. Overall a really long process
Why are you considering to apply for a position at bloomberg? and why do you think you have the right skills to be the right candidate? tell us about you
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why are you considering to apply for a position at bloomberg? and why do you think you have the right skills to be the right candidate? tell us about you
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2023
Interview
4 rounds, it was nice and smooth, they provided me with adequate resources in order to excel. The last round, they flew me out to SF to meet the managers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Bloomberg?Why Fintech? Tell me a time about customer service?
Financial Sales and Analytics applicants have rated the interview process at Bloomberg with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Financial Sales and Analytics roles take an average of 26 days to get hired, when considering 327 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bloomberg overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bloomberg as a Financial Sales and Analytics according to 327 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
One on one interview: 21%
Group panel interview: 15%
Background check: 6%
Presentation: 5%
Personality test: 4%
Skills test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 1%
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