How to Apply to Refinitiv

Key Takeaways

Refinitiv is now LSEG. Apply at careers.lseg.com; applications route to Workday at lseg.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers.
LSEG operates a single consolidated Workday tenant for all 869+ global open roles across all four divisions, which is unusual for a FTSE 100 company and convenient for candidates.
The interview process is competency-based, STAR-driven, and typically four to five rounds over four to seven weeks.
The Microsoft partnership announced in December 2022 is reshaping the engineering hiring mix - Azure, C#/.NET, Teams integration and AI/Copilot skills are in heavy demand.
Expect interviewers to probe your understanding of the Bloomberg competitive dynamic. Have a view.
London is the center of gravity, but engineering and operations hubs in Bangalore, Colombo, Bucharest, Bangkok and Manila represent most of the open headcount.
Do not use outdated product names. It is Workspace, not Eikon. It is LSEG Data & Analytics, not Refinitiv.
Quantify everything on your resume - latency, ARR, clients, instruments, model performance. Vague bullets fail the 30-second recruiter skim.
Background checks are comprehensive and extend five years. Do not inflate titles, dates, or credentials.
For early-career candidates, the Graduate Programme and Foundations Internship open in September and November respectively and run on separate timelines from the general intake.

About Refinitiv

Refinitiv as a standalone brand is effectively sunset. If you are applying to Refinitiv today, you are applying to LSEG - the London Stock Exchange Group - which acquired Refinitiv from Thomson Reuters and Blackstone in a landmark $27 billion all-share deal that closed on January 29, 2021. That acquisition transformed LSEG from a traditional exchange operator into one of the largest financial markets data and infrastructure companies in the world, sitting alongside Bloomberg and S&P Global Market Intelligence at the apex of the industry. Candidates should understand this history because it shapes everything about the hiring experience: the ATS, the interview style, the employer brand, the org chart, and even the products you will be asked to work on. LSEG is headquartered at 10 Paternoster Square in the City of London, directly across from St. Paul's Cathedral, and is a constituent of the FTSE 100. The group employs roughly 25,000 people across more than 70 countries, with major engineering and operations hubs in London, New York, Bangalore, Bucharest, Colombo, Bangkok, Manila and Gdansk. The business is organized into four divisions: Data & Analytics (the former Refinitiv franchise, including the flagship Workspace platform that replaced Eikon, plus FX, fixed income and real-time data feeds), Capital Markets (London Stock Exchange, Turquoise, Tradeweb relationship, FX Matching), Post Trade (LCH, the world's leading clearing house), and Risk Intelligence (World-Check, Due Diligence, screening and KYC services). Engineering is treated as a horizontal function that serves all four divisions, which is why a Workday search will show nearly every technical role tagged to 'Division: Engineering' regardless of which product surface it supports. David Schwimmer, a former Goldman Sachs banker who led the Refinitiv transaction, is CEO. Under his leadership LSEG has leaned hard into its identity as a data and analytics company rather than a traditional exchange, and that strategic posture matters for job seekers because it means technical and data-oriented hires are the growth engine of the business. The most consequential recent move is the ten-year strategic partnership with Microsoft announced in December 2022 - a deal in which Microsoft took an approximately 4 percent equity stake worth around $2 billion and committed to migrating significant LSEG workloads to Azure while co-developing next-generation Workspace experiences natively inside Microsoft Teams. That partnership is now live in the hiring pipeline. You will see dozens of roles asking for Azure, .NET, C#, Teams add-in development, Fabric, and AI/Copilot integration skills, and interviewers will probe whether you understand that strategic context. Honest framing is essential here. The Refinitiv brand is fading - Eikon has been retired in favor of Workspace, the refinitiv.com domain redirects into lseg.com properties, and internal teams now describe themselves as 'LSEG Data & Analytics' rather than 'Refinitiv'. Employees we have spoken to describe the post-acquisition culture as a genuine blend: the London exchange side brings formality, regulatory seriousness and a traditional City of London cadence, while the former Refinitiv side brings a faster product culture inherited from its Thomson Reuters roots and its years under Blackstone ownership. The competitive landscape is also unambiguous. LSEG's Data & Analytics division competes head-to-head with Bloomberg LP for the terminal and real-time data market, and it competes with S&P Global, FactSet and Moody's for desktop analytics. Interviewers expect candidates to know who the competitors are and to have a point of view on what distinguishes Workspace from the Bloomberg Terminal - usually around open architecture, Microsoft integration, and cost per seat. If you walk in not understanding that competitive position, you will struggle.

Application Process

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Start at careers
Start at careers.lseg.com, which is the official employer brand site. Do not bother with old refinitiv.com/careers URLs - they redirect into LSEG domains. The search and filter experience on the marketing site is lightweight; the real job board lives at lseg.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers.
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Expect to see roughly 800 to 900 open requisitions globally at any given time
Expect to see roughly 800 to 900 open requisitions globally at any given time. As of this writing the Workday tenant shows 869 jobs found. Roles are tagged by Division (Engineering, Operations, Sales & Account Management, Finance, Corporate Affairs & Marketing, Risk & Compliance) and by Location, which are the two most useful filters.
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Create a Workday candidate account early
Create a Workday candidate account early. You will need one email address tied to one profile, and that profile will follow you across every future application to LSEG - so use a professional email you will keep long-term. Workday lets you upload a resume to auto-populate fields, but the parser routinely misreads dates, promotions within the same employer, and international address formats. Budget 20 to 30 minutes to verify every field after upload.
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Submit a tailored resume as a PDF
Submit a tailored resume as a PDF. Two-page maximum is the UK convention and is expected for all roles outside the United States. US-based roles will accept a one-page resume for early-career candidates and two pages for experienced hires. Name the file FirstName_LastName_Role.pdf - recruiters receive hundreds per requisition and a clear filename meaningfully improves visibility.
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Cover letters are optional for most technical requisitions but genuinely useful
Cover letters are optional for most technical requisitions but genuinely useful for business, sales, and early-career roles. Keep them under 300 words and address a specific division, a specific product, and a specific problem you could help solve. Generic 'I am excited about LSEG' letters are filtered out by recruiters very quickly.
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After submission you will typically hear back within 7 to 14 business days if yo
After submission you will typically hear back within 7 to 14 business days if you are being progressed. LSEG is disciplined about sending rejection emails, which many large firms are not - so silence after two weeks usually means you are still in the pool but not the front of it. Follow up once through the recruiter's LinkedIn or the email you receive on application confirmation; do not follow up more than twice.
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The first live contact is almost always a 30-minute recruiter phone screen
The first live contact is almost always a 30-minute recruiter phone screen. This is a genuine filter, not a formality. The recruiter will validate work authorization, salary expectations in local currency, notice period, and whether you actually understand the difference between LSEG's four divisions. Be ready to explain in two sentences why LSEG over Bloomberg, S&P Global, or ICE.
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Early-career applicants should apply directly through the Graduate Programme and
Early-career applicants should apply directly through the Graduate Programme and Foundations Internship portals, which run on a separate timeline. Graduate Programme applications typically open in September for the following September start, with assessment centers running October through January. The Foundations Internship is a summer programme aimed at penultimate-year university students and opens in November. Both close well before the general intake and use the same Workday backend.
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For technical roles, expect the formal process from first recruiter call to offe
For technical roles, expect the formal process from first recruiter call to offer to take four to seven weeks. For senior business and sales roles, expect six to ten weeks. Compensation negotiation happens late in the process and is generally handled directly by the recruiter, not the hiring manager.
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All offers are subject to comprehensive background checks, which for a regulated
All offers are subject to comprehensive background checks, which for a regulated financial institution include employment verification going back five years, education verification, criminal records, credit check (for FCA-regulated roles), and a sanctions screen. Budget two to four weeks for background checks to clear before your start date.

Resume Tips for Refinitiv

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Lead with quantified business impact in the top third of page one

Lead with quantified business impact in the top third of page one. LSEG reviewers - both recruiters and hiring managers - skim resumes in under 30 seconds. A bullet that reads 'Reduced FX pricing latency from 240ms to 18ms, enabling roll-out to 1,200 buy-side clients' will outperform 'Worked on low-latency pricing systems' every time.

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Map your experience to LSEG's four divisions explicitly

Map your experience to LSEG's four divisions explicitly. If you are applying to a role in Data & Analytics, your summary and at least two bullets should reference market data, analytics platforms, or desktop delivery. If you are applying to Capital Markets, emphasize trading, market microstructure, or matching engines. Generic resumes that could apply to any financial services company underperform sharply.

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Use the LSEG product vocabulary where it fits honestly - Workspace (not Eikon),

Use the LSEG product vocabulary where it fits honestly - Workspace (not Eikon), Datastream, Tick History, FX Matching, LCH, World-Check, Tradeweb. Do not stuff keywords; interviewers will ask what you did with the product and shallow familiarity is obvious within two follow-up questions.

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For engineering roles, name your stack with version numbers and list cloud platf

For engineering roles, name your stack with version numbers and list cloud platform experience separately. LSEG's Microsoft partnership means Azure, C#/.NET 8, Python, TypeScript/React, Kafka, KDB+ and PostgreSQL all appear frequently in job descriptions. Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) are also commonly required.

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For financial engineering and quant roles, quantify model performance with speci

For financial engineering and quant roles, quantify model performance with specific metrics. Sharpe ratios, backtest periods, AUM covered, number of instruments, latency percentiles - these are the numbers interviewers care about. 'Built pricing models' is not a bullet; 'Built Monte Carlo pricing for 4,200 structured products, cutting overnight batch from 6h to 90min' is.

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For sales and account management roles, lead with book size and win rate

For sales and account management roles, lead with book size and win rate. LSEG sales cycles are long and relationship-driven, so numbers like 'grew EMEA buy-side book from $4.2M to $11.8M ARR over 3 years, 82% logo retention' are exactly what hiring managers look for. Name the kinds of clients you sold to - hedge funds, sell-side banks, asset managers, central banks - because LSEG segments its go-to-market that way.

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Early-career candidates should emphasize any exposure to financial markets data,

Early-career candidates should emphasize any exposure to financial markets data, however lightweight. A university project using Datastream, a dissertation using CRSP or Compustat, a personal project pulling LSEG APIs - these differentiate you from the generalist pool. List coding competitions, hackathons and relevant open-source contributions if you have them.

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Treat the Workday resume parser as unreliable

Treat the Workday resume parser as unreliable. After you upload, manually verify every employment date, every job title, and every education entry. Fix anything the parser mangled. Workday will show your parsed profile to recruiters verbatim, so parser errors become your errors.

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Do not claim certifications you do not hold

Do not claim certifications you do not hold. LSEG runs comprehensive background checks and verification extends to CFA candidacy, FRM, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud certifications. A mis-stated certification is an automatic withdrawal of offer, even late in the process.

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If you have Bloomberg Terminal experience, list it plainly and do not apologize

If you have Bloomberg Terminal experience, list it plainly and do not apologize for it. Interviewers understand that desktop analytics professionals often have both, and knowing the competitor product well is a plus, not a minus, because it gives you credible opinions about Workspace's roadmap.

ATS System: Workday

LSEG runs the Workday applicant tracking system on its own tenant at lseg.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers. The public-facing marketing site at careers.lseg.com surfaces jobs but routes every apply click to the Workday tenant. All 869 currently open requisitions, across all four LSEG divisions and every geography, live on this single Workday site, which is unusual for a company of LSEG's size - most FTSE 100 peers split into multiple Workday tenants by region. That consolidation is helpful for candidates because you only need one candidate profile to apply across the entire group.

Upload a PDF, not a Word document. Workday's parser handles PDFs more reliably, and PDF preserves formatting when the recruiter views your profile.
Use a clean, single-column resume format. Two-column templates often scramble when Workday parses them - the parser reads left-to-right across columns and produces incoherent text.
Avoid headers, footers, text boxes, tables, and graphics. Workday silently drops content inside these elements on many resume uploads.
Use standard section headings: Experience, Education, Skills, Certifications. Creative labels like 'Where I have worked' cause the parser to miscategorize entries.
Spell out dates as MM/YYYY (for example 03/2024). Abbreviations like 'Q1 2024' or 'Mar 24' parse inconsistently.
After upload, click through every auto-populated field and correct it. Pay particular attention to job titles, employer names, and dates - the most common errors.
Workday caches your profile across applications. When you apply to a second LSEG role, your profile pre-fills - so keep it updated rather than treating each application as a fresh start.
Do not apply to more than three LSEG roles simultaneously. Recruiters see every application you have submitted, and scattershot applications across divisions signal a lack of focus.
The 'Job Requisition ID' (shown as R-numbers like R0118481) is the canonical identifier. Use it in any follow-up email so the recruiter can find you instantly.
Workday's 'voluntary self-identification' section is genuinely voluntary in all LSEG jurisdictions and does not affect screening. Complete it or skip it based on your preference.

Interview Culture

LSEG's interview culture is competency-based, structured, and deliberately non-theatrical.

The group adopted a standardized interview framework after the Refinitiv acquisition to create consistency across legacy exchange and legacy data teams, and the result is a process that rewards preparation over charisma. Expect four to five rounds for most professional roles. The first round is a 30-minute recruiter screen covering motivation, salary, notice period and a light behavioral filter. The second round is typically a 45 to 60 minute technical or domain screen with the hiring manager or a senior individual contributor - for engineers this is usually a code walkthrough or a system design conversation about something you have actually built, not a whiteboard leetcode problem. The third round is often a panel of three to four interviewers, each running a competency-based block: one on collaboration, one on delivery and ownership, one on technical depth, and one on client focus. Panels are staffed with a deliberate mix of divisions so that you are assessed on your ability to work across the Engineering-Operations-Sales interface that defines day-to-day LSEG work. Final rounds for senior roles include a meeting with the divisional head or a skip-level leader, and for very senior roles a conversation with a member of the Group Executive Committee. Questions follow the STAR format - Situation, Task, Action, Result - and interviewers are trained to probe for specifics. 'We built a product' will be followed by 'Who was we? What was your specific contribution? What was the quantified outcome?' Vague answers are scored down. Prepare six to eight STAR stories covering: a time you dealt with a difficult stakeholder, a time you missed a deadline, a time you made a technical or commercial trade-off, a time you influenced without authority, a time you operated in an ambiguous environment, a time you dealt with a regulated or compliance-sensitive situation, and a time you disagreed with a peer or manager. Expect at least three of these to come up. Technical interviews for engineering roles are pragmatic rather than algorithmic. You will be asked to design a real system LSEG actually runs - a market data distribution service, a post-trade reconciliation engine, a World-Check screening pipeline - and walk through trade-offs. Interviewers are looking for judgment about consistency versus availability, cost versus latency, build versus buy, and how to handle partial failure in a regulated environment. Write code live if asked but assume the interviewer cares more about how you reason about correctness and edge cases than whether your syntax is perfect. For financial engineering and quant roles you should expect pricing and risk questions at the level of Hull or a CFA Level II curriculum, plus practical questions about model validation under UK FCA and EU MiFID II regimes. Business interviews test domain depth. A sales candidate should expect to role-play a discovery call with a hedge fund CTO on Workspace versus Bloomberg Terminal. A product manager candidate should expect to walk through how they would prioritize a feature request that comes from a large European asset manager versus a faster-growing US quant fund. A content or analyst candidate should expect a written exercise - often a short commentary on a market event - completed offline and discussed live. Culturally, London interviews tend to be more formal and dress code leans business professional. US, Bangalore, and Colombo interviews are typically business casual. Remote video interviews are the norm for first and second rounds; final rounds for London-based roles increasingly require at least one on-site day at Paternoster Square. Expect interviewers to be on time, to have read your resume, and to give you a clear sense of next steps at the end of each conversation. The process can feel slow - four to seven weeks from first contact to offer is standard - but it is also transparent, and recruiters will give you honest feedback at each stage if you ask.

What Refinitiv Looks For

Evidence that you understand LSEG is a data and analytics infrastructure business, not just an exchange. Candidates who frame LSEG purely as 'the London Stock Exchange' signal that they have not done their homework.
A point of view on the competitive landscape versus Bloomberg, S&P Global, ICE and FactSet. You do not need to be right, but you need to have an informed opinion.
Familiarity with the flagship products relevant to your division - Workspace, Datastream, FX Matching, LCH, World-Check, Tradeweb, Turquoise. Depth beats breadth; one product you know deeply is more valuable than a surface tour of the whole portfolio.
Awareness of the Microsoft partnership and what it means for the product roadmap. Engineering candidates should expect questions about Azure, Teams integration, and how they would architect for a cloud-first future while maintaining low-latency on-prem workloads.
Comfort working in a regulated environment. LSEG is regulated by the UK FCA, the Bank of England (for LCH), the SEC in the US, and an alphabet soup of other regulators globally. Candidates who understand that 'move fast and break things' does not apply to a systemically important financial institution progress faster.
Cross-divisional collaboration skills. LSEG's strategic value depends on connecting data, capital markets, post-trade and risk intelligence into integrated client offerings. Candidates who have operated across functional or divisional boundaries stand out.
Commercial awareness, even in technical roles. LSEG engineers are expected to understand how their work shows up in customer outcomes and ARR. Saying 'I built what I was asked to build' is a negative signal; explaining why the work mattered to a client is a positive one.
Long-term orientation. LSEG is a 300-plus-year-old institution and hires with a long time horizon. Candidates who signal they want a 12-month stepping stone are filtered out; candidates who can articulate a five-year trajectory within LSEG are preferred.
Written clarity. Many interviewers will look at a take-home written exercise or ask you to write a short summary of your technical approach. Poor writing is a significant negative signal in a company whose core product is fundamentally information.
Cultural adaptability across geographies. LSEG's engineering spine runs through Bangalore, Colombo, Bucharest and Bangkok. Candidates who have worked across time zones and cultures, and who are comfortable being the only person from their office on a global call at 6am or 10pm, progress faster than candidates who have only worked in a single geography.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Refinitiv still hiring under its own brand?

No. Refinitiv as a standalone brand has effectively been sunset. The business is now LSEG Data & Analytics, one of four divisions within the London Stock Exchange Group. All career pages, the Workday tenant, email domains and product marketing now use LSEG or lseg.com. If you land on a page still showing Refinitiv branding, it is an old cached asset - go to careers.lseg.com for the current job board.

What ATS does LSEG use?

LSEG runs Workday at lseg.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers. It is a single global tenant covering every division and geography, including the former Refinitiv roles. You create one Workday profile per email address and it follows you across every future LSEG application.

Where is LSEG headquartered and does it matter for my application?

LSEG is headquartered at 10 Paternoster Square in the City of London, directly across from St. Paul's Cathedral. It matters because London is the center of gravity for senior leadership, most product strategy roles, and a significant share of capital markets and post-trade engineering. Candidates based elsewhere can absolutely be hired - LSEG has major engineering hubs in Bangalore, Colombo, Bucharest, Bangkok and Manila, plus significant US presence in New York and St. Louis - but for senior business roles, proximity to London is a meaningful advantage.

How many people work at LSEG?

Approximately 25,000 employees across more than 70 countries. The headcount roughly doubled when Refinitiv was acquired from Thomson Reuters and Blackstone in January 2021, and has since grown further as the Data & Analytics business has invested in engineering and product capacity.

What is the Microsoft partnership and why does it matter for job candidates?

In December 2022 LSEG and Microsoft announced a ten-year strategic partnership. Microsoft took roughly a 4 percent equity stake worth around $2 billion, LSEG committed to migrating significant workloads to Azure, and the two companies are co-developing next-generation Workspace experiences natively inside Microsoft Teams. For candidates this means Azure, C#/.NET, TypeScript/React, Teams add-in development, Microsoft Fabric and AI/Copilot integration skills are all in heavy demand, and interviewers will expect you to understand how the partnership reshapes the product roadmap.

What are the four LSEG divisions?

Data & Analytics (the former Refinitiv business, centered on the Workspace platform that replaced Eikon), Capital Markets (the London Stock Exchange itself, Turquoise, and FX Matching), Post Trade (LCH, the world's leading clearing house), and Risk Intelligence (World-Check, Due Diligence, and KYC screening services). Engineering is a horizontal function that serves all four.

How competitive is the LSEG hiring process?

Very competitive at the experienced-hire level, especially for London-based product and senior engineering roles, where an opening can draw several hundred applications. Early-career programmes - the Graduate Programme and Foundations Internship - are among the most selective in UK financial services, with single-digit acceptance rates. That said, the engineering hubs in Bangalore, Colombo, Bucharest and Bangkok have high and steady hiring volumes, and well-prepared candidates have a genuine path in.

Does LSEG offer remote or hybrid work?

Hybrid is the norm. Most roles require two to three days per week in the office, with the specific mix set by line manager and division. Fully remote roles exist but are rare and concentrated in engineering. London-based senior roles increasingly require three to four days per week on-site at Paternoster Square.

What is LSEG's early-career hiring pipeline?

Two main programmes: the Graduate Programme, which is a structured two-year rotation across functions (Engineering, Operations, Finance, Data & Analytics, and Markets), and the Foundations Internship, a summer programme for penultimate-year university students that serves as the primary pipeline into the Graduate Programme. Graduate applications typically open in September for the following September start; Foundations opens in November. Both close well before general intake deadlines.

How should I handle the Bloomberg question in an interview?

Honestly and with a point of view. Interviewers know Bloomberg Terminal is the dominant desktop and do not expect you to pretend otherwise. What they want to hear is that you understand LSEG Workspace's strategic differentiation - open architecture, native Microsoft integration, lower cost per seat, and flexibility for build-your-own workflows - and that you have thought about how those differences show up for specific client segments like quant funds, buy-side analysts, or treasury teams. If you have Bloomberg experience, do not hide it; it is an asset, not a liability.

What is the typical interview timeline and how many rounds should I expect?

Four to five rounds over four to seven weeks for most professional roles. Recruiter screen (30 min), hiring manager technical or domain screen (45-60 min), competency-based panel with three to four interviewers, and final round with senior leadership. Senior roles add a skip-level or Group Executive Committee conversation and can extend to six to ten weeks.

What resume format works best for LSEG's Workday ATS?

A clean single-column PDF, two pages maximum for experienced hires, one page for early-career US applications. Standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills, Certifications). No headers, footers, text boxes, tables, or graphics. Dates in MM/YYYY format. Name the file FirstName_LastName_Role.pdf. After upload, manually verify every auto-populated field because the Workday parser is unreliable on promotions within a single employer and on international address formats.

Does LSEG conduct background checks and how thorough are they?

Yes, and they are comprehensive. As a regulated financial institution LSEG verifies employment history for the past five years, education credentials, criminal records, and - for FCA-regulated roles - credit history and a full sanctions and PEP screen. Expect two to four weeks from offer acceptance to background clearance. Misrepresentation on dates, titles or credentials will lead to withdrawal of offer even late in the process.

How to Apply to Refinitiv

Key Takeaways

About Refinitiv

Application Process

Resume Tips for Refinitiv

Lead with quantified business impact in the top third of page one

Map your experience to LSEG's four divisions explicitly

Use the LSEG product vocabulary where it fits honestly - Workspace (not Eikon),

For engineering roles, name your stack with version numbers and list cloud platf

For financial engineering and quant roles, quantify model performance with speci

For sales and account management roles, lead with book size and win rate

Early-career candidates should emphasize any exposure to financial markets data,

Treat the Workday resume parser as unreliable

Do not claim certifications you do not hold

If you have Bloomberg Terminal experience, list it plainly and do not apologize

ATS System: Workday

Interview Culture

What Refinitiv Looks For

Frequently Asked Questions

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