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Manager at Macquarie Group
Posted Feb 12, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2009 in Sydney (Australia) (took 2 weeks)
1:1 initial interview about the role and to determine personality type. Standard interview, not too difficult.
2nd phase is to be invited for a psychometric test. Although they say that you cannot fail this test, you can. If you do not achieve a high enough result you will be rejected even if you did really well in the interview.
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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 Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Project Manager at Macquarie Group
Posted Sep 17, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in Sydney (Australia) (took 5 weeks)
1st interview - Reporting Manager and peer. Standard interview with thorough previous experience and role specific "tell me about a time when..." type questions. Good interview. Feedback was very good.
Then psyc test (4 hrs).
2nd interview - Business manager. Good interview again. More of an open discussion. Feedback was very good - Business Manager told me he hopes I get the position upon exiting the interview.
3rd interview - Associate Director and Divisional Director - This is where its it becomes very hard. Both turned up 10 mins late to the interview. Both gave off waves of disinterest and "I'm way too important to be here" and intentional intimidating attitudes. Div Director yawning throughout the interview. Very open and vague questions that require a general answer so the interviewee runs a big risk of focussing on the wrong areas. Even after trying to engage them in a more open dialogue so I could try to focus in on the specific areas that they were interested in - nope. Both didn't appear to know anything about the position I was interviewing for. Also had to endure a "explain what the internet is to my 70 year old grandmother who is completely computer illiterate" question. When I asked them to describe to me 2 good and bad things about Macquarie - I was given 2 good things by the Associate Director (no negative because her boss was sitting next to her) and the Divisional Director said "well...err...it depends on your point of view". I think he had to wake himself up and therefore didn't like my question. 2 weeks after this interview I was told I was the best candidate but I didn't get the job. No one did.
Total time for the process 5 weeks. Cost me about $400.
Went through a VERY similar experience at Macquarie 3 months earlier with exactly the same outcome at each step.
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Reason for Declining
Not one of the candidates was offered the position. I will not interview with Mac again. I don't think I could work with the senior management. They seem to be a different breed to the rest of the organisation and do not respect a candidates time. Very arrogant attitude and full of their self importance. (SM level and above). The rest of the organisation is a pleasure to work with.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Intern/Graduate (Same Procedure) at Macquarie Group
Posted Sep 8, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in Sydney (Australia) (took 5 days)
Updates until the offer were via email. First interview is with a member of HR, of which I got a lovely member. Typical behavioural questions, though some of the other candidates I talked to told me they had brain teaser questions to gauge your critical thinking. On completion of this interview they either put you through to the psychometric test (behavioural and IQ) that day, or tell you they'll contact you later with details.
The day after I received news that I had progressed to the next stage. Interview was few days later, with two people from the departments interested in taking you in. You can have up to three interviews a day, though the most common number was two back to back, 45 mins.
Few days later I got the job offer
Tips: Suit. Emphasize teamwork. Shake their hands. Basic, but maybe those going for the intern/graduate positions need this to be spelt out clearer.
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Negotiation Details
Nothing, heh.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Senior Manager at Macquarie Group
Posted Aug 9, 2010
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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 Jul 2010 in Sydney (Australia) (took 3 months)
long process. approx 5 sets of interviews incl psych testing et al. interesting experience and met some very nice people
however, for a senior management (IT) role i ws surprised by the lack of vision and clarity in what they were after. wanted leadership but clearly not themeslves able to show leadership. did however like the flexibility and the flavour that a given role was not for life...so there were some positives. in the end i was not successful, clearly i was not what they wanted but as it took a month for them to get back to me after saying "will get back to you within a few days" - so i am not convinced about their standards of leadership or communication.
happy in the end to have gone thru the experience but coupled with other feedback i am happy i am not joining the sweatshop !
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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ITG Professional at Macquarie Group
Posted Aug 8, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 in Sydney (Australia) (took 4+ weeks)
1) Phone interview with HR first, generic Behaviour questions
2) psychometric test, consisted of verbal reasoning, numeric, and abstract reasoning
3) Interview with 2 managers, one from operation one from development
4) Interview with another 2 managers
Overall, no technical questions were asked, but lots of behaviour questions, and tricky questions, such as tell me all the things you could do with a piece of blank bed sheet and some other type of role playing games
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Associate Director at Macquarie Group
Posted Jul 19, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 in Sydney (Australia) (took 3 months)
In person interviews followed by telephone interviews and extensive tests
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Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Regression Test Analyst at Macquarie Group
Posted Jan 9, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Sydney (Australia) (took a day)
One on one interviews with 2 people. Hiring manager (Senior Test Mgr) and Delivery Manager. Lasted 1.5 hours
Negotiation Details
Recruiter did a great job for me. Put up more than I asked for and was successful
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Operational Risk Analyst at Macquarie Group
Posted Jan 5, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2008 in Sydney (Australia) (took 3 days)
It involved three separate interviews as well as psychometric testing. First interview was with the HR lady and basically was a filter to ensure I wasnt a dud. Then I met an Associate Director I would be working with for a tricky enough interview. He was pleasant but asked some tough questions. This was the KEY interview. The last interview was with the boss boss, who quite clearly was swayed by what the AD said. Basically, the key thing is to get on with the person you will be working with. If you cant get by the HR lady, you shouldnt be there. The boss man is basically just rubber-stamping the decision by the person you'll report. Oh, and then there's psychometric testing. There's not much you can do for that really. If you get it you get it.
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Negotiation Details
There was no real negotiations to be honest.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Adviser at Macquarie Group
Posted Jul 17, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2009 in Sydney (Australia) (took 1 week)
Basically, the initial communication was very standard by email informing candidate to know whether they had received a 1st round interview. Be aware!! Interviews are given at extremely short notice (1-3 days!).
Advice is to really read on your brainteasers well before the interviews!
Perception of the people working there are :
Young, smart, tech-savvy and all seem single!!
Office is in heart of martin pl which is good
Work culture seems very tedious but that's investment banking for you!
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