The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Bloomberg in July 2010
Interview
Job spec was vague as regards to reponsibilities. The first interview was a half hour phone interview, followed up with a face to face panel interview with one guy in the same room and the other on teleconference.
The first interview was a general chat discussing my background with someone senior in client service, and we also discussed long term strategic development of the product. This went very well and I was immediately asked in for the second interview. The panel interview was with two people who were supposedly doing the same job they were hiring for although their exact positions and roles weren't explained, and the guy in the room with me told me that actually he was in a different team. The communication in the interview was generally poor and when I sought to clarify some terminology and ask for examples to illustrate something I didn't understand, the responses were inconcise and difficult to understand. They told me there and then that i wouldn't be able to hit the ground running and thats where their questions ended. Incidently they had been looking for seven months to fill the role and with an increasing workload the need to hire was now urgent, but rather than widen the net they were now looking for clones of the people they already have. Good luck with that.
The two interviews could almost have been for two different roles and i had the feeling that everyone was not on the same page in terms of what they were looking for. Most importantly the impression that I had of team was that it was chaotic and stressed and they even let slip that their current team was under so much pressure they would not be able to support the new joiner.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you see as the future strategic development for our product?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Apr 2024
Interview
The interviewer speaks very fast. Some technical questions about financial derivatives (options, bonds) knowledge, special kind of financial products, brain teaser. No coding questions. Not typical engineering interview but more like quant trader/trader interview.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
I applied online and got a call from HR to set up an interview. The first round went well with some technical questions. The interviewers were nice too. The 2nd round was with the Hiring manager and that too went well. I was initially told the 3rd round would be with the Global Head, but later was told the Team Lead from London will interview me. The interview was set up for 4pm London time . I was waiting for the video call to start at the scheduled time. There was no one. 5 minutes later someone from the US joins saying that the guy had to go home. And he adds "don't ask me why he had to go home". He asked a few questions but during the whole process he seemed uninterested and it was obvious he wasn't listening and looking at something else on his desk. After a while he asked, "Do you have any questions?" and then adds, "Don't ask me why the previous guy left". Why would I ask such a thing?! Interview ended in 25 minutes.
Not sure why they set up the final round if they had already decided against me. There was a recent article on Linkedin on how candidates are ghosting at work, not turning up for interviews, etc. If the Head of the group does the same at some company, I guess it's ok but the candidates are supposed to be at their best. Ha.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Usual valuation questions on various asset classes. 2nd round was more behavioral than technical.