I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Singapura) in Feb 2018
Interview
There is a case discussion and a job shadow for all the applicants. Thereafter, an interview will be held with staffs from the analytics and sales team. Successful applicants will move on to another interview with the senior management.
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Inglaterra) in Feb 2018
Interview
Longest recruiting process I have ever experienced. It is indeed a big company, but the process started in early November and finished late February. Had three different HR-contacts, and every time I addressed one I got an answer (if I ever got one) from a different one. Applied for a summer internship (starting July), and the company thought I couldn't start before October.
Invited to assessment day mid December (couldn't attend due to exam), whereas I never got a response after replying to this invitation. All of a sudden I was invited for the Team Leader interview (which resulted in two interviews rather than one due to scheduling issues).
During the in-house manager interview I had to wait for about one hour before the interview could start.
To conclude, the whole recruiting process was a massive failure from Bloomberg's side.
On a more positive note, I went through the same process a year earlier, where my experience was completely different. Other than also being a quite lengthy process (mid October to end January), the communication was vey good and the feedback from the HR-contact was superb.
Bloomberg is a place with a very friendly and supporting environment, and I assume my experience this year was a rare case - but still unacceptable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Bloomberg?
What value will you add to the company?
What is your take on excellent customer service?
What skills are required to be a good salesperson?
Why finance?
Financial news lately?
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Nov 2016
Interview
The first round of interviews was an online video interview where you had under 2 minutes to prepare a question that would pop up. You couldn't redo any questions.
Second round was a skype interview which was more personal lasting about 30 mins.
The third was a language competency one which didn't require you to talk about anything technical, they just want to see if you can speak that language