Finally got a chance to sit down and write something. I arrived Durham at 2am this morning. After a bit slept I went out again with Andy to solve out some AJS things. And now I am here with my tired body.
Anyway! The Bloomberg thing yesterday didn’t disappoint me. Five of my classmates went as well so we had a Durham group. We thought it was just a presentation and normal Q&A, but they actually prepared more than that.
Start from the beginning. First of all, the building quite impressed me. I didn’t know too much about Bloomberg before I went, just check out their sites and got some general ideas of it. But when I saw the building and went into it, wow, it just likes a professional broadcasting company(well, it is!). We were asked to take photos and given a special ID cards with our photos on it. Then they have their own kitchen (a place for coffee) with all sorts of snack, and they are all FREE! For a bunch of poor students just wondering around in area full of financial companies in London, that meant a lot!
After all the attendees arrived, we were led to a presentation room. Several representatives from different departments gave us short presentations about what they do in their jobs and what’s actually inside Bloomberg. I was surprised when they told us that Bloomberg was a 4 people team 25 years ago and grew to now a 8,000 employees international company. Some also demonstrated their terminal software. The quick customer services respond was new to me, but in financial industry this kind of service is needed.
The presentation was about 40 minutes. Then we were divided into groups of few and started talking (informal interviewing) with different staffs. That section was out of my expectations, but I did learn a lot from those interview questions. In one part, we were asked to sell the person sat next us from what they just introduced themselves, that was good testing for listening and immediate presenting skills.
The whole thing took about 2 hours. That was a good experience and it was my first time to walk into such big and global company and see how it works inside. It motivated me a lot and I really wish I could work in an organisation like that in future. Sorry I could give any photos this time because they didn’t allow photo taking inside the building, but I found a few photos online. There are some on Flickr and a few form a blog. From links there, I found a employee’s blog with some photos. Check them out!
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