Online application (with a few questions like why Bloomberg, why role, what current news are you interested the most in) Telephone interview (approx. 30 minutes) Face to face interview at Bloomberg headquarter with two recruiters Telephone interview. Was clearly structured and conducted by HR, so it seemed she followed a set of questions, which is good and organised. Questions she asked included: Why Bloomberg? Why role? What do you know about the role? Where Bloomberg gets its data from? What do you know about Bloomberg? Main products? What is the difference between good customer service and excellent one? How do you measure your own success/performance? A time you worked in a team Challenges you faced in a team A time when you improved a process Any questions. She was not friendly or anything, just acted like a robot with no emotions or personal approach. It was not enjoyable. Face to face That was even worse that the first one. There is no formal structure they follow, except standard questions they ask like why Bloomberg and why role. What asset you would like to specialise, I said FX so they went: okay, imagine you work for FX, so what would you do as an analyst and where would you get the data from? They really pushed on the technicality of the data processing, like what exactly you do. Then the interview essentially expends on what you say. They pick up on every word you say and ask further questions. So make sure you can explain everything you say. Even simple thing like I worked on a presentation at uni on a dolphins or something... then they could ask okay so what did you talk in your presentation about. A few competency questions like teamwork, challenges in a team, something outside of CV. Situational, like imagine you have an angry customer on the phone, manager told you to do a presentation and pissed off and you also made mistake in their holly grail terminal. How would you approach this? Just basically don’t forget their holly grail office layout where they sit next to each other and so collaboration is important (looks far from the truth when you actually see their office...) Where do you see yourself in a few years Then you can ask any questions. Overall, they were not friendly at all, they 'lectured' me on answers which did not satisfy them, saying something like you forgot this... look at our office, how do we sit? next to each other? i was like mate no need to lecture okay. I think it was unprofessional and people assumed too much power for just being team leaders. I felt like I was being interviewed for an investment bank rather than a help desk role and putting data into the system. I was highly disappointed the company and overall recruitment process. Even simple communications through email with recruiters was bad.