Macquarie Group Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – A short but thorough discussion about my current role and the AP role in MOT - basically a trading platform and OMS in C#.

The rest is a 90 minutes purely technical discussion from messaging middleware to buffer size, message throughput, processing latency, threading design, TCP/UDP, message loss, retransmission, async call, callback and delegates, etc.

Given a certain scenario, with the use of sequence diagrams, required to draw messages flows and where exactly should threads got branched, such that end user UI wouldn't be blocked.

After these, there are several extremely common but basic questions: polymorphism and OOP, boxing and unboxing and heap/stack, plus database design - normalization, table join, index/key, subqueries.

Given this is an experienced hire instead of graduate recruitment, question set is relatively easy.

Interview Details – - 2 interviews in total. First with direct report manager and 2nd with 2 other project managers.
- 1 psych test for the perm role
- Asked to talk about yourself and then go through the relevant parts of your experience with the advertised role.
- 1-2 interviewers at a time.

Negotiation Details – N/A.

Interview Details – had first round over phone and went to their Chicago office for personality test. Offered third round with management team, but was later informed they were not hiring.

Interview Details – Standard online application form. Called up for an interview with a HR girl. She was very friendly and was good about contacting me in regards to questions I had prior to the interview.
During the interview she seemed a little nervous, and a little inexperienced, even though she had worked there for 2 years. I think they should have included a manager in the interview but anyway.
Questions were work experience, personal history, behavioral and where I wanted to be in the firm. Quite straight forward.
Didn't progress to the test due to the fact that they were only hiring 1 grad for the position. No feedback, but I didn't chase it up. My friend asked for feedback and they told him that there was nothing wrong with his application, but they just weren't taking on any people.

Interview Details – Interviewed by two women who asked a number of brain teasers and then talked about the great influence of Australian culture on the firm.

Interview Details – First round was a basic competency interview on the phone with a member of HR, questions included why Macquarie, tell me about yourself. There were also some basic brainteasers questions like a lilypad doubles in size each day. In 28 days, the lilypad will cover the entire pond. In How many days will the pond be half covered?

Interview Details – Got the interview quite late in the intern hiring season, like March, first interview was with HR, second/third interview with Asso/VP in the team, then one month later, final with team head, the interview consists quite a few behavioral questions like why IBD, why Macquarie and other common questions you would read in Vault. Well i would say the tech questions are tricky, but not very difficult, requires some understanding of corporate finance basics.

Interview Details – Applied online via their Careers website. It took about one or two weeks before they sent an email regarding my application. I was invited to come to their office for a 1:1 interview with the IT Manager. I was also asked to take the Psychometric Exam which was very difficult. After passing that exam, I had an interview with the IT Head which was very informal. Office looks great although I didn't really had a grasp of the people and the work culture.

Interview Details – First round telephone interview with HR: fairly straightforward consisting of "tell me about yourself" type questions and examples of leadership, working under pressure etc. Make sure you have these examples prepared.

Second round AC: in London offices. Around 4 hours consisting of computer-based tests on verbal reasoning, numerical skills and psychometric assessment.

Final Interview: 2 interviews. First with Senior VP and Associate Director. Very relaxed, cracked jokes and barely touched on technical stuff. Much more of a "do we like you"/airport test style interview. BUT: Varies a lot from team to team. Other candidates in other teams had far more technical interviews.
Interview process seems quite ad-hoc. While working there, interviewees and would be waiting and team MD would come and ask any two members who are free to go and interview - i.e. not very well planned. Other candidates taken on tour of office during interview.

Second interview was with Analyst and Associate. Slightly more technical but nothing too difficult - no maths. etc.

Negotiation Details – na