I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Al Khurayb) in May 2022
Interview
After the first round interview (which is prerecorded), if selected you get an invite to the Bloomberg assessment center. It is in 4 parts.
First 30 mins will be a demo of the Bloomberg terminal by a Bloomberg staff.
Then a case study will be sent to your email, for which you guys will be put in breakout rooms. Here, a Bloomberg staff will monitor the session in the background to take note of your team playing skills and probably your ability to solve problems.
After this stage, you automatically proceed to the team lead’s interview where you get asked motivational questions.
After the team lead interview, a decoy will be made and only select candidates will proceed to the manager’s interview (I was not selected for this level)
Tell us about a Bloomberg product that you know of (please be sure to mention the Bloomberg terminal as my feedback came as I did not mention the Bloomberg terminal and so I won’t proceed to the manager’s interview)
I was interviewing for the London and Dubai role, so I was asked why the location. They want to know that you are commercially aware about the region you’ll be working in).
Begins with a personality assesment that also includes puzzles meant to test pattern recognition. The assesment and the personality quiz takes about 30-40 minutes and requires no preperation before hand.
First was Hireview, 1 Hour interview with two team leaders, and assessment centre, consisting of tests, networking, and a final round interview with two team leaders from analytics and sales departments respectively.
Multi step interview process, they have you submit a recorded video interview, then you get selected for a virtual super day where they interview a bunch of candidates at once, then you get an in person. Know about finance and know as much as you can about Bloomberg and its business. Have a good take on AI in finance.