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Updated May 11, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in New York, NY (took 5 days)

The HR is really helpful. The questions are challenging but not too difficult

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how to sort an array of numbers quickly

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describe the STL in C++

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Negotiation Details

none

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

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 weeks)

Applied through the college site. Was scheduled for an initial behaviorial round of interview. Later was invited to a super day which had 4 interviews each lasting for 45 mins. Completely technical and concentrated a lot on algorithms.

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Algorithm for dealing cards in a card game

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

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Dec 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)

Campus recruitment interview. Interviewer was very casual and interview itself was very conversational. Nothing too technical, mostly behavioral but interviewer does get very impressed if you can state facts about the company that she's not aware of.

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What kind of position do you take during group assignment/project?

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2012 in New York, NY (took a day)

The interview took place at my university and was fairly casual. My interviewer was an alum and very nice, asking mostly behavioral questions. However, he did ask some questions about the market and what I would include in my ideal portfolio. Even though I didn't get an offer, it was a worthwhile experience.

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What would you include in your ideal portfolio?

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Walk me through your resume.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2010 in New York, NY (took 3 days)

Phone interview screening with HR is literally to see if you want to be submitted to the team. Once the team approves, they setup the in office interview. You have to meet with pretty much half the team at the very least as well as a few people from related teams. I interviewed with 12-13 people total for 20 mins each over a span of 3 days. They seem to ask the same questions and then at the end of the process they decide if you are going to be easy to work with yet know your stuff and get stuff done.

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Please describe a trade lifecycle

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Negotiation Details

Negotiation was short because they have a set salary for how many years experience for your title level. Was not able to get even a small increase.

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I Applied Online 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 Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 days)

1st round interview at University Career Center and 4 back-to-back interviews as final round

Interview Questions

Why Blackrock?

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What news do you follow?

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Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2011 in New York, NY (took 4 weeks)

I had an on campus interview first and then have an on site interview.
On campus interview includes resume questions, behavioral questions and one coding test.
On site interview has four one-one interviews. The interviewers ask me data structure, basic c++ and java knowledge, system design and brain teaser questions.
Most questions are not difficult, but I also missed several questions.

Interview Questions

How to transfer a form in infix(prefix) notation to a form in post-fix notation.

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To sort the data in a stack without using loop.

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

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2012 in New York, NY (took a day)

Linear regression model, how will that apply to your real life case ?

some math questions

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decries the linear regression model

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what is VarR and beta

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2012 in New York, NY (took 2 weeks)

Recruiter contacted me asking me to submit my resume after talking to a Campus Rep. After a week, was contacted for an on-campus interview. Following week, was contacted by recruiter to fly up to New York for a Superday. Superday was relatively short, just four 45 minute interviews. Superday was last Friday, so still waiting to hear back.

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What is your favorite data structure? How would you implement a Hashmap?

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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)

They asked basic qestions about why intereted in finance and PM. I focused heavy on how it is a mix between finance and using people skills and I thought the interview went well. However, I got denied.