Bloomberg L.P. Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details It was very straight forward and much like many of the reviews already on Glassdoor. Applied online on the website and received a screening call a few days later where the recruiter (from Hong Kong) asked the basic questions about why I wanted to work for Bloomberg and why that particular role. I then had a first interview with the manager of their Singapore analytics department.

The interview itself was quite good, nothing out of the left field, but maybe that's because I went through the entire interview reviews tab on this site. She asked me what I knew about the current financial market and in particular about the Cyprus Crisis (which was in the news at the time) and then asked about my background in sales/analytics which I was able to answer quite well. She then asked me to sell her an iphone when she was a Blackberry user, which I had anticipated so I didn't struggle there.

The office that I interviewed in was spectacular! I'm in Sydney and the views were amazing and the staple open pantry looked even better in person. Lots and lots of glass, there were not any meeting rooms with an opaque wall, there were only a handful of people I saw on the floor and the atmosphere was a little subdued, quiet but very professional.

If I had any advice to give, it is that you should come across as being enthusiastic about the role and the company without looking like a cheerleader. Back up your reasons for being passionate about the job and intersperse your answers with linking positive points about Bloomberg that you would like to utilise your skills for. I find that having a chat with the interviewer about their experiences within Bloomberg is a good question to build rapport with them and perhaps give you an idea of what type of technical questions they might ask you if you know which department they came from.

One thing though, I didn't hear back from my recruiter for more than two weeks and finally got an email about my final interview and then took another week for them to schedule that. Bloomberg is a massive company so don't be discouraged if there is a lapse between your interview and the outcome as I'm sure they have other things to focus on. I have my final interview in a couple of days and I hope I can impress them.

Interview Details scheduled to be 2 rounds of phone interview then 2 rounds of tele conferences at their office

Interview Details Phone interview was relatively straight forward. But the one on one interview after that was horrible. The manager was almost 30minutes late and he was very rude, often interrupted me when I answered questions. He asked me a few technical questions which I did not expect as it was an internship position.

Interview Details Received an email asking directly for an interview, with no phone interview before. A woman from the HR department, told me to travel to a Bloomberg office (600km) and make from there an interview through videoconference.

Interview Details Basically group interview in the 1st round. A role play was required for every group consisting of 5 to 6 people. Don't be too aggressive or too shy, try to raise some good points. Panel interview in the 2nd round, mainly focus on your CV. I am still waiting for further notice from HR, but it seems to have slim hope.....I know that they will send rejection letter to anyone who fails in the 1st round? Will they still do that in 2nd round?

Interview Details I submit resume on career fair, and scheduled an interview one week later on campus.
They asked very detailed C++ questions. gave me A{}, and asked questions for this empty class for more than half an hour. questions about constructor, destructor, pointers, everything you could imagine. and the gave me a coding problem, how to decide a tree is a binary tree or not. after coding , asked another question, what about the structure is not a tree, would my code work? we discuss this for 20 mins. the process is so terrible, kept asking questions, so basic, detail questions, no algorithm, no datastructure.
And got rej email two weeks later.

Interview Details Telephone interview (5 minutes): why do you want to work with us? why this specific role? what are, in your opinion the mani skills to succeed in this role?

Interview Details Applied online after finding job listing on Linkedin. Received an email about 12 hours after I applied and was scheduled for a phone interview. Phone interview was very at ease and casual questions, more based on interests, why this job appealed to you etc. Was told that I will be passed on to Hiring Manager and that we will keep in touch. Contacted them 2 weeks after phone interview to find out progress, was told that there are many candidates and they are still reviewing applications. Didn't hear back for a month and they never replied to my other communication attempts.

Interview Details I applied for an Event Panner position and the first interview consisted in a phone call in which I was asked about my previous working experience. I was also asked about my current location and about my range of salary expectations. Once I had answered this questions in about 15 minutes the interviewer told me I was going to be contacted for a second interview this time face to face .