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No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2012 – Reviewed Apr 20, 2013
Interview Details – agents arranged phone interview and it went smoothly, they just asked me some what projects I have worked and high level technical questions. then I was invited to an onsite interview. I met two developers and the hiring manager. The interview is not difficult and hiring manager is nice. I then received an offer letter.
Interview Question – java why ConcurrentHashMap doesn't throw concurrentmodificationexception? View Answer
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Mar 2012 – Reviewed Jun 27, 2012
Interview Details – The interview was with the Director of FX Sales & Trading for a summer analyst position. The interview was in their NYC offices on 7th avenue in one of the offices on their trading floor. It started off well, we actually ended up speaking Spanish for the first 10 minutes even though I'm not Spanish nor is it on my resume. However he began to ask more technical questions about FX hedging strategies using forwards/futures, swaps, and options. I'm an equities guy with limited knowledge of FX strategies so I had some difficulty providing specific examples of concepts. I didn't get called in for another interview as they likely found someone with more experience in FX to take the position.
Interview Question – What is BNP Paribas best known for? View Answer
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY May 2010 – Reviewed Jun 21, 2012
Interview Details – After an initial contact, since I was in France at the moment of my application, the company proceded with a series of phone interviews. The interviews were not technical, what was evaluated was my motivation and my language skills. After a first round, a background check was made (since I needed to apply for a Visa) and a 1:1 interview via Skype with my future boss finalized the process. After I was accepted, as part of the recruitment process a drug test was made.
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No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Jan 2012 – Reviewed Feb 10, 2012
Interview Details – I was notified I received an interview a week before the interview. I was interviewed by two MDs for my first round. It started as fit, but quickly turned technical, so I would say definitely over 50% was technical.
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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Feb 2011 – Reviewed Feb 25, 2011
Interview Details – Interview was all fit based. No brainteasers or market questions. The most important part was being able to sell yourself. I interviewed with two guys from Prime Brokerage. To prepare for your interview though, you should still know all your market info, basic math, and obviously your fit answers. The interview depends heavily on the person that is interviewing you (i.e. trader = market questions).
Interview Question – Why should I choose you over the other 9 candidates that I just interviewed? Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Salary is competitive.
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Mar 2010 – Reviewed Nov 22, 2010
Interview Details – First round interview, the MD I interviewed with asked me about digital options. Since I come from a non-finance background, he wanted to see how quickly I can pick up information and apply them. Second round, I interviewed with 4 people. Some questions involved short/long positions, how the market is doing, and what is going on in the markets lately.
Interview Question – What is an option? What is a digital option? Answer Question
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Jul 2010 – Reviewed Jul 12, 2010
Interview Details –
I got the interview call through a Recruiter.
I first had a phone interview and then I was invited onsite where I met 4 people, 3 technical and 1 pseudo-technical/HR.
The whole process lasted for 4 hours and had questions on C++, multithreading, projects on my resume and questions about basic finance and low latency.
Interview Question – Implement a thread safe queue con-formant to POSIX APIs and specification. There are multiple readers and writers indefinitely reading/writing from/into the queue. View Answer
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Oct 2009 – Reviewed Mar 29, 2010
Interview Details – Standard interview through my graduate school recruiting, 1 on 1 interview with senior guy, interview was for Fixed Income Sales & Trading, for Sales side. A brief walk through resume and after that a bit of discussion on current market situation and also on my career interest. Also, I was told more about the role, etc. Interviewer was laid back and positive, no tough questions, more like a fit type of interview.
Interview Question – Are you more interested in Sales or in Structuring role and why? Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Jan 2010 – Reviewed Jan 25, 2010
Interview Details – I applied through on-campus recruiting and just completed the first round of interviews. The interviewer is very nice and friendly. Basically, he just asked me a project I did before. He went into technical details involved in the project. Additionally, he asked open questions to test your general understanding about derivatives.
Interview Question – Why BNP? Answer Question
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Jan 2007 – Reviewed Dec 16, 2009
Interview Details –
initial phone internview + met about 4 managers, they asked me about my work experience and then about financial industry terms like options, greeks etc
They asked me in particular about the data elements of options and structured products. apart from that some other questions were on corporate actions, back office and compliance experience
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Negotiation Details – pretty easy, they asked me for a number and accepted....they have a very good relocation package
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