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Updated Jan 18, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior Quality Assurance Analyst at AllianceBernstein
Posted Jan 18, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
The interview process was lenghty and was very much detailed oriented. it span across different groups from Business to technology departments and across different manager levels
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Research Analyst at AllianceBernstein
Posted Dec 19, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
Met with HR person after applying online. Interview lasted for about an hour. Consisted of basic background questions and a relatively short case study question. Took about 6-8 weeks to get a firm response that they were looking elsewhere.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Programmer Analyst at AllianceBernstein
Posted Dec 6, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 weeks)
First phone interview was with HR. a couple days later had another phone screen from an engineer. When I went in for the full day I Had four back to back interviews. One of the interviews was with two people. Mostly technical and finance questions. Seemed like a good place to work. No offer.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Financial Advisor at AllianceBernstein
Posted Nov 28, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took 4+ weeks)
I thought the interview progressed as to be expected for a sales interview. A thorough review of my background starting from high school. They're looking for motivated, motivated, motivated, and ready to learn the Bernstein way. Looking for some sophistication, you need to be able to prove you're the type of person that can attract and retain wealthy clientele. Professional interviewers, no one with the intention to make you feel uncomfortable.
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not much room for negotiation, kind of a take it or leave it
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Quantitative Analyst at AllianceBernstein
Posted Nov 1, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
* AllianceBernstein's interviews are generally not that difficult, but they usually don't hire someone who's directly out of school, a PhD in hard science from a reputable school plus 1-2 years of working experience especially in some buy side hedge fund will be a big plus.
* AllianceBernstein is a US large cap long only manager, so usually option and derivatives will not be emphasized in the interview, more questions on statistics, estimations, general quant models, evaluating bias statistics will be asked. Also it's good to have a few good programming language on hand, such as Matlab, SAS, R, SQL, even if not asked during interview, it'll be your daily companion doing your job.
* Previous working experience in a hedge fund is valued, any experience doing long/short, market neutral, global macro, high frequency will be valued as the firm is shifting into those directions in terms of new products
* Be confident, eventually they only offer 1-2 offers among 30-40 PhD interviewed, but once you get in, life isn't so difficult compared to a hedge fund
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* They have a pretty established range for PhD graduates with 1-3 years working experiences, not much to negotiate. You trade in average or slightly below market average pay for an easy life style.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Sales at AllianceBernstein
Posted Jul 8, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Philadelphia, PA (took 2 weeks)
I have 22 years experience in financial services and did not think Bernstein was a fit but a recruiter suggested I meet them anyway. After meeting with the Managing Director twice I was moved through the process to the hiring manager after taking a personality sales test. The hiring manager was extremely tough and made me tell my history going back to HS, ridiculous, and proceeded with a description of every position I've had in the industry. Bernstein does not want anyone that they can't brainwash into their system of selling which is very proprietary, not an independent or objective approach. They prefer to hire outsiders as opposed to financial service insiders so they can train them into the Bernstein system. The hiring manager did not like being questioned about losses in 2008 and or assets leaving to more independent firms. If you are in sales from a different industry and want to get into wealth management this could be a good fit but otherwise industry advisors with an independent objective approach should stay away.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Personality Test.
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Associate Portfolio Manager at AllianceBernstein
Posted Jun 26, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)
Basic interview to start, then it switched to conceptual/brain teaser questions like what is the degree of the hour and minute hand at 11:45. 2nd interview was much of the same, but much more firm specific.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Associate Portfolio Manager at AllianceBernstein
Posted May 28, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
I had an initial phone interview which lasted about half hour. The person from HR who contacted me asked mostly about my previous work experience, and why I wanted to work for AB. A few days later, I was contacted to come in to their offices. I had two interviews. All behavioral questions, no technical.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Associate Portfolio Manager at AllianceBernstein
Posted May 8, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in New York, NY (took 3 weeks)
Series of 1:1 interviews with each member of the team (some more than once) over about a three week span. The position had been vacant for some time, and I could tell that they were anxious to fill it as quickly as possible once a decent candidate had been found. Discussed professional experiences to date, educational background, why I was looking for new opportunities. Technical questions were asked in each interview. I was also asked a series of typical "brain teasers" during a few sessions.
The group was not especially considerate of my time during the interview process. Several meetings were cancelled at the last minute, and I was kept waiting.
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Negotiation Details
Very little room to negotiate. Pay is known as the lowest on the street - though management will boast efforts to align pay with performance. If you take a job here, it's for the learning experience and potential career growth.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Programmer Analyst at AllianceBernstein
Posted May 4, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 in New York, NY (took a day)
I was applying for a technical position so they first sreened me telephonically..asked me some tricky programming questions nad then in person they asked me questions about C++ even though i was interviewing for a database position.
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Negotiation Details
not great.You do make good bonues though.
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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