I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg (City of London, England) in Mar 2011
Interview
Online application, relatively easy. After 4 weeks they emailed to ask for a telephone interview a few days later. Main qns were why Bloomberg, who is competition and how they differ. Later that day they emailed to ask me to come for a Recruitment Event a few days later. This began with a presentation speaking about the company, followed by shadowing someone on the analytics team. We then had a tour where they took us around the building and basically kept asking if we have any qns. Then was a half hour interview with one person from analytics and one from sales. The asked about cv and why Bloomberg, how I would sell Bloomberg to a Reuters client, what I feel is important in a job, how big the tie market is!!!! My background is not finance but this doesnt matter.
Everyone extremely friendly and seem passionate about working there. Not intimidating at all and a great experience seeing the company in action.
Hirevue, Superday, In person. Hirevue was pretty standard and the superday was hard, but they give you all of the info you need to prepare. I prepared well for everything besides the sales role play, and that's where I messed up. Everything else is exactly how they describe it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Bloomberg?
Difference between sellside and buyside?
Why Sales & Analytics?
Situations that you dealt with upset customers
Hirevue was for the first round of the interview then a superday with two interviewers, one from the sales team and one from analytics. Mix of behavior questions and a roleplay scenario.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you explain what both the sales and analytics teams do, and their main priorities.
It was quite nice, they were very open and friendly and willing to accommodate, there were quite a few rounds of interviews. It was interesting to see the culture and network