Line on the resume.
Good pay, but if you count all the hours you really work, it's less impressive.
The building is really cool: multicolored glass, transparency, lots of open space.
Events scheduled for interns. Flexible work hours.
Work is not really challenging. Lots of repetitive work. Need to fill out programmer's notes every day. If you're a programmer and you hope to learn more about finance by working here, it won't happen. If you're an intern, you cannot bill more than 40 hours per week. Almost everybody works more, but you won't be paid for overtime. Free food and drinks are always there, but if you're health-conscious, most of it won't be of much benefit to you. IB - "Instant Bloomberg" - instant messaging for Bloomberg employees - can get in the way of work. Old technology.
Be open to (or at least consider) creative ideas that could bring more money to the company. People can be more productive.
Read a lot of algorithms.
Ask about details in your resume. Concepts: Explain virtual functions, polymorphism, static inner class in Java. Interview questions: How to implement a priority stack with two basic stacks? When will use map, when will you use vector and queue?
From the online application (Bloomberg website) to the phone interview took around 4 weeks. A first interview was scheduled within 2 weeks, but the interviewer didn't call, so we rescheduled. The phone interview was quite straightforward, and I was
Read a lot of algorithms.
Ask about details in your resume. Concepts: Explain virtual functions, polymorphism, static inner class in Java. Interview questions: How to implement a priority stack with two basic stacks? When will use map, when will you use vector and queue?
From the online application (Bloomberg website) to the phone interview took around 4 weeks. A first interview was scheduled within 2 weeks, but the interviewer didn't call, so we rescheduled. The phone interview was quite straightforward, and I was