What the work involves

You are given a realistic finance task — screen high-yield issuers by spread and duration, build a comparable company analysis for a mid-cap industrial, pull a fund's holdings and attribute performance, reconcile a company's reported earnings against consensus — and you complete it inside Bloomberg. The deliverable is rarely just the answer. It is the answer plus a legible trace: which functions you ran (DES, FA, RV, EQS, SRCH, PORT, HP, BDH in Excel), what you typed, why you chose that field over a near-identical one, what the output meant, and where a reasonable analyst might have gone wrong. Some tasks flip the direction: you are shown a model's attempt at a Bloomberg workflow and asked to judge whether the ticker, the function, the date range, and the interpretation were all correct — and to say precisely where it broke.

What the platform screens for

micro1's screen is AI-led and conversational, and it presses on Bloomberg specifics fast. Expect to be asked which functions you reach for in named situations, what a particular screen actually returns, and how two similar fields differ. Generic finance fluency does not survive follow-up here; the interviewer is checking whether you have sat at a terminal rather than read about one. The second thing it tests is whether you can narrate your own process — many strong analysts work by muscle memory and struggle to reconstruct the keystrokes, and that reconstruction is the product. Expect probes on how you spot bad data: stale marks, currency mismatches, restated financials, index membership drift.

Logistics and pay

  • Fully remote, contractor engagement, asynchronous — tasks are claimed and returned on your own schedule against project deadlines.
  • Terminal access matters. Some projects provide a sandboxed environment; others assume you have professional or academic access. Be candid about which you have, and about any employer restriction on using your firm's terminal for outside work.
  • Observed pay for this listing runs $90–170/hr, typically varying with demonstrated terminal depth and the complexity of the workflow tier you qualify for. Rates are as observed on the platform, not guaranteed.
  • Volume is project-driven and uneven; contributors who can absorb a burst of 10–15 hours in a week tend to get more work routed to them.