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.
The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Feb 2011
Interview
Submitted my resume through my school's job website. Bloomberg called me within a week for a phone interview. Asked me about myself and why I wanted to work for Bloomberg.
They flew me to a regional event. There were about 20 other kids invited to it.
Most stressed question: Why do you want to work for Bloomberg instead of go into Banking.
Know everything about the company. What are their products? Who do they sell to?
Overall good experience - they put me in a nice hotel and did not make me wait long for the interview to start.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Why work for Bloomberg instead of go into Banking?
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2010
Interview
Doubled teamed by 2 interviewers. Asked generic questions and were overall very friendly. I got stumped when one of them asked me my stance on QE2, and I told her I knew what it was but didn't have an opinion on it... mistake.