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Updated May 13, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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3.0

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Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Apr 2012 in Jersey City, NJ (took 2 weeks)

Interviewed with three managers and a director one afternoon, about 30-45min each.

Interview Questions

What is the Federal Funds rate?

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Negotiation Details

Didn't negotiate

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Mar 2009 in Singapore (Singapore) (took 2+ weeks)

Was pretty straight

Interview Questions

How would you plug your custom allocator to STL containers

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What is diff between govt bond and corp bond

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Negotiation Details

No negotiation

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Dec 2010 in Singapore (Singapore) (took 3 weeks)

Note that the interview I attended is part of the graduate program - might vary for line hires.

Interview process consisted of 3 main parts:

Phone interview (2 weeks after online application submission) - Usual HR questions; why do you want to work for investment banking, why Barclays, tell me about your resume, and stuff like that.

Excel Skills-based Test (approximately 1 week after phone interview) - Test of basic excel skills and some VBA; stuff like vlookup/arrays for excel and some simple stuff you can do with the macro recorder in VBA.

Assessment Centre (same week, after Excel Test) - Consisted of 1:1 competency based interview with line manager, prioritization exercise (give order of priorities on several selected tasks, explain and interact with the other people at the AC), and case study presentation (also 1:1).

Line manager called on same day in the evening, offer was in the mail the next business day. Relatively smooth process - Managers and staff seem relatively nice; HR was mostly prompt and responsive.

Interview Questions

(Case Study Interview) - Tell me what are the risks of following through a deal with XYZ company; given that we had approximately 100 pages of material and about an hour to present, it was hard(er) to give an answer while trying to remember all the numerical details.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.

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3.0

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2010 (took 1+ week)

After all the necessary steps for online application, they'll review and start contacting shortlisted persons. Then a first round of phone interview was conducted. One day after the phone interview, I was informed that I could proceed to a 1:1. Then finally I went to the AC. It was a half day event and consists of 3 parts. A group activity, a competency based interview and a prioritizing interview. I heard that offers were given just 4 hours after the whole day session ended. Super efficient.

Interview Questions

Describe one of your failures and what you learned from that.

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From a regulatory perspective, what happened in the past 12 months that you see would have an impact on the evolution of the industry

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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4.0

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Dec 2009 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 3 days)

Challenging mathematical questions and puzzles. Programming questions were fairly easy for someone with a good understanding of algorithms and some experience in C++. Met some senior management and was taken out for a beer as well.

Interview Questions

n numbered places in a bus, n people with a ticket for one place each come in at random. k of them are anarchists who sit down in a random free seat. All other people sit down in the seat assigned on the ticket, unless it's already taken, in which case they sit down at random. What is the probability that x people are in their assigned seat? (I think original question was with n=10, k=1, and x=10).

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Reason for Declining

Got another offer with different company

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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 Skills Test.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2010 in Houston, TX (took a day)

First I had a phone interview since I was not based in Texas. After I passed, they flew me out to Houston and paid for all expenses. During the interviews there, they all are friendly and help you out. There is a lunch beforehand but do not let your guard down. I made the mistake of joking around, and its possible I did not get the offer because of that.

Interview Questions

What are deferred tax assets

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Dec 2009 in New York, NY (took a day)

My interviewer was somewhat cold and not very inviting but helpful when it came to do a technical question. The interview was 15 minutes of 'fit' questions and 30 minutes for the technical question which did not require a lot of finance knowledge or even calculations. Many of the fit questions came directly from my resume, such as explaining why I chose my major, explaining work experience, etc.

Interview Questions

When you wake up in the morning what are you most excited to do?

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State X is selling the main turnpike at the state border, what is the value of the turnpike?

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Personality Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2010 (took 2 weeks)

my friend referred me to the hiring manager and it took about 1 week before one of her direct report called me to start the process. the interview was conducted in their office and consisted of 2 rounds. the hiring manager and her direct report was the first round. She asked my backgrounds and why choose to leave current job for investment bank. another two of her direct reports interviewed for the 2nd round right after 1st round.Similar questions were asked again and again.

Interview Questions

tell me something that is not on the resume

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2010 in New York, NY (took 2 days)

met with three members of the team on the first interview. was called to interview with the director of the group and a peer one week after the 1st interview. very calm. gave a run through of my resume. was offered a position the following day. got this through an agency. temp to hire