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
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Inglaterra) in Feb 2018
Interview
I interviewed at Bloomberg LP in London. The interviewers were warm and friendly.
I was given competency based questions and asked some more technical questions. Interviewers were nice enough to correct me where I had mixed up terminology and also provide guidance for some of the questions