Bloomberg Professional Analytics Event

Hi,
Yeah I'm curious as to what the event entails as well ....

I assume you mean the financial sales and analytics?

The so called event normally is as follows:

You will be gathered in a room, given a small presentation. Then you will get a paper to test your language skills (ability to translate in any languages you think you are good at).

After that they split the group (if there are many of you) and half go to shadow a bloomberg person in the analytics department (basically a helpdesk) and another half goes for the interview. The interview is strictly tailored to your experience/background hence it is standard interview of knowing your stuff and researched Bloomberg.

They may very well ask you to make a sales pitch if this is the position you applied for. So you need to be able to sell and think for the client needs if thats the route they go for.

During the workshadow its pretty much relaxed chat about the job (helpdesk). When you are well grounded in Bloomberg they will then let you go to do sales in this career route, or you can become more specialised analytics person.

The next stage after this will be just one final interview. (all interviews I had were with 2 managers).

I have telephone interview with bloomberg this friday for sales position ,

any idea what question will likely to come up?

thank you

Hi, just had mine there. Very short, more of an informal chat. Not sure how well it went tbh. PM me if you want more info.

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Hi
I have been invited to the second round interview at Bloomberg for Financial Sales and Analytics. The email correspondent has told me this shall be a competency one. However, the first interview i attended was also a competency one, and I do not know how the second one will be different in terms of questions asked.
Could anyone tell me what kind of questions they were asked for the second round interview?

hi! could you please tell me what questions you were asked for the second interview? i have one coming up. while my first interview experience was very similar to what you have described, i have no clue about what the second one will be like.

Hi How did it go?
im heading for my first interview with bloomberg -sales and analyst -, could you tell me please what kind of competency questions shld i expect? was it a group session?cause the hr lady told me that its more likely to be a 1-1.
many thanks in advance

Hi!

thanks for the information!

i was just wondering whether the people you shadow at the analytics department actually test you on your knowledge of say...financial markets, or contribute to assessing you in any way: in other words, what are they looking for?
Also, if we are in a group and all go to the interview process, do they ask general questions to the group, or are we actually assessed individually and what do they look for?

thank you again

Hi Guys,

Can anyone tell me about the phone interview? What does is it involve? possible questions they may ask ? I applied for the analytics and financial sales position and I have one coming up!

many thanks,

Hey,

The phone interview is quite short. They are likely to ask about that how did you hear about BBG, what do you know about them and shortly explain your interest in financial markets.

rgds

Thanks so much for your comments bpeti.

Regards,

Any idea on the second stage interview? I just had a telephone interview. How long does it take for a feedback from Bloomberg? Any idea about the salary for analytics and sales?
Good luck to all

if you have been succesful it usually does not take a very long to get invited to the second interview. I was invited to the 2nd stage right at the end of the telephone interview (and other guys, that i met at the 2nd stage interview had a very similar experience).

2nd stage is usually an event where you meet also other succesful candidates. after the second stage it took them 2 days to get back to me.

about the telephone interview - you have to be very confident and know what BB does and why you want to work for them. That's the key. If you can answer these two questions in a confident and enthusiastic manner (and if you trully want to work for them) then you should most likely get through.
good luck luck

@ mint mint,
Thanks for this useful insight. Do u currently work with BB? Was the 2nd stage the final stage for u?

hey g-host.. it was 3 stages for me : a telephone interview, the event and a final interview. I had all my interviews in february and i'll be starting the grad job this summer... happiness!

most importanty, be confident, relaxed and enthusiastic... they are nice people - and just really want to know you - the real and natural You... (i was trying to be myself, share some personal stories, what really interests me and smile a lot... do not worry about the right or wrong answers - as there aren't any... just remember, if you are meant to work there, you'll definitely get the place! if you won't - something even more suitable awaits you around the corner!

good lucky luck ;)

Thanks so much mint mint, do appreciate ur feedback. Congratulations!!!

thanks a bunch g-host! I'm sure you'll do well! honestly! :)

I am looking forward to meeting u. Hope we all make it happen in BB this year

has anyone been to the event recently, can u share ur experience,many thanks.....^_^

@g-host:
I have my first round of interviews coming up for my analytics and financial sales programme at the 26th of this month.it is supposed to be a competency based interview and shadowing the team.I remember you mentioning testing languages and stuff.what languages do they test?and could you tell me about the recruitment process in detail with special reference to the first round? I would also appreciate if you could give me your e-mail address as I would like to clarify more doubts. thanks a lot.

 @vijayalakshmi R

it's also appreciable if u give me ur mail id for further contacts.....

regards
joy

Hi, I also have my 2nd stage interview coming up next week, what q's can I expect in the competency interview? any help would be much appreciated to increase my awareness of the interview experience

many thanks

Hi!

When you say 2nd interview do you mean 2nd to the phone interview or the second in-house interview?

Both in-house interviews are similar, just questions to find out what kind of a person you are and how you would deal with the job as well as making sure that you are actually interested in it.

Relax, be yourself and prepare as you would for any interview with the standard questions. There are some questions that they'll ask about things that you say which you won't be able to prepare for, but thats good, they are looking for truthful answers not pre-rehearsed ones.

Good luck

Brit

Hi

i have a phone interview for financial sales and analytics position . can you share your experience if you had one please .

thank you

Hi G-Host!

Are you going to be on the analytics and sales programme? When in the Summer do you start? I start in August!

Brit

Naser, phone interview been covered very well by some excellent posts already

will be competency (ie motivation, why bloomberg etc, ques about your comptencies)

also technical questions, i got asked what is difference between bond and equity

also questions about what you like in the news, so read up on some financial stories..

Britney or mint mint or anyone thats done the final interview, can you just kindly elaborate a bit on it? like about whether or not there will be technical questions, as there have been in both phone & in-house?

Hi Kryptonian,

Yes, the final interview is pretty much the same as the first in-house interview, just with different people. There are some technical questions to make sure understand basic terms and the usual why bloomberg? why this job? do you think you can cope with the stress? news questions? previous work you have done?

Like I say it is pretty much the same as the previous one but with different people. They seemed to ask questions according to what I said so I got the feeling that questions could change for different people.

Hiya, i have telephone interview for financial sales and analytics.

kindly help with things i need to know.

tnx

tnx guys, i fink ve got enough info.

chers and wish me gd luck

Britney, cheers for that!! thought Id reply on both boards since you sent on both :)

Sammy82 best of luck!! make sure you check the financial news focus on a story you like!

sammy82, hi , i got my phone interview next monday , how do you prepare for this interview ? .

Naser,

I found this on wiki. I hope it ll help. mine is tomorow so ll prob post to for u to see

Why do you want to work for Bloomberg?
•What do you know about the position you have applied for?
•What do you think it is going to be like?
•What do you know of what Bloomberg is doing?
•Where do you see yourself in three years?
•Where else are you applying?

sammy

did you apply for the arabic sales analatyics ? .

well, good luck

hi naser,

i agree for the fone interview for 17.30. am yet to receive thier call. any suggestions.

tnx

hi, kryptonian

i agree for the fone interview for 17.30. am yet to receive thier call. any suggestions.

tnx

ve u got thier contact the email is no -reply(cos my mentor advice me to send email thankin them for the interview which was yesterday invitation and not the real 1). let me ve the contact if u got 1

tnx

sammy

well, I dont have their email but you can call this number ask them about your interview TELL THEM YOUR JOB REF NUMBER TOO( 02073307500)

did you apply for the ARABIC / LONDON FINANCIAL SALES?

I have had 3 phone interviews with BBG tokyo office for financial sales and rep. They invited me to NY on next Monday and said there is an in-house event. What is different between in-house event and in-house interview? Has anyone been to the event recently? Can you share your experience?
Thank you so much

you SHOULD LET THEM KNOW, GIVE THEM A CALL TOMOROW MORNING

Sammy, did you sort it out? Give them a call from general website number and ask to speak to hr, or the person you been in contact with?

Thanks all especially Krytonian and Naser.

I got this email from them after the fone call

Apologies that I did not call you yesterday, I was in a meeting that overran.

Please let me know a suitable time to contact you on Monday.

Thanks all especially Krytonian and Naser.

I got this email from them after the fone call

Apologies that I did not call you yesterday, I was in a meeting that overran.

Please let me know a suitable time to contact you on Monday.

Thanks all especially Krytonian and Naser.

i did reschedule monday

wat time is your interview on monday , because mine is at 14:00?

sammy?

they ask for ma suggestion so i pick anytime from 1600. pls kindly let me knw hw it goes. chers

sammy

yh sure no problem, do you know if they going to test you in your language?

am not sure. am english native speaker and my gurl frd is french so am learning to speak from her. But they can test your language knowledge

oh ok , well good luck with that and i will let you know how it goes.