Bloomberg L.P. Interview Questions & Reviews in United Kingdom

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 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 .

Interview Details I was contacted by HR to arrange telephone interview. I talked with fixed income specialist for 30 mins. He was quite friendly. Questions are :
- Why Bloomberg
- Why Analytics
- Difference between bond and equity
- Leadership experience

It has been two weeks since telephone interview. Let's see how it goes.

Interview Details Phone Interview
In-House Interrview

Interview Details Bloomberg's application process is tightly integrated with LinkedIn, so if you have a LinkedIn profile then it's very easy to simply import your profile in.

The first step was a 30 minute long phone interview. This was primarily about basics of C++ programming. I'd highly recommend candidates to brush up on pointers, C++ STL container classes such as vectors and hash maps, memory management (e.g. why is malloc not used any more).

I got an email offering a face-to-face interview at their London office within two days. The guidance on this was that the interview would last "at least an hour, but please allow for up to three hours". I assume that the length of the interview depends on how far deserving of a candidate you are. The interview was conducted by a engineering team manager and a lead programmer on one of their teams. The first set of questions was solely about pointers and how they are referenced / dereferenced in situations; really fundamental stuff but if you're not clear then you're likely to trip up at some point. Like I did. I did manage to backtrack and walk them through my correct solution when they gave me a hint on one of the trickier ones but I knew by that point my interview was shot. They wrapped it up after exactly an hour.

The whole process was extremely quick, it seemed like everyone was on the ball.

Interview Details Relatively simple application process. I filled out the online form and was contacted 2 days later for a telephone interview. The interview was pretty standard, why do you want to work for us, tell us about yourself etc. I thought I actually did reasonably well but I have not heard back from them. The lady was very nice and the questions were fine. Just study up on who their main competition is etc.

Interview Details Applied via their careers website and received a interview request about a week later. Met with the team leader which lasted about an hour. I thought the interview went well and I felt positive coming out. Unfortunately the next day received a rejection email. In general the interview was relaxed and focused on my CV, how I would handle certain situations, and what sort of team player I was.

Interview Details The interview process consisted of several rounds: 1 online test, 1 phone interview, 2 interviews on-site. Most questions were difficult to say the least. The online test measured your C/C++ skills. The phone interview was OK. The onsite interviews were difficult, especially the final one with the head of R&D and HR.

Interview Details Phone Interview lasting about 40 min. Why do you want to work for Bloomberg + technical questions from an OO language e.g. Java. Questions Included : What is a VM? What is a garbage collector? What are exceptions in Java? What is a class? What is inheritance? What is the word 'this' in Java? Give me examples of classes from java.util. etc.