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Updated Apr 28, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Associate, Corporate Credit at TD Securities
Posted Apr 28, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took a day)
Received an email inviting me to a scheduled interview at their office 2 days from time of email. Met with Relationship manager, and an associate. They asked basic questions about why I was interested in Corporate Credit and how I would evaluate potential borrowers (hint: just read credit agency rating reports like those from DBRS, S&P etc. it covers all of that)
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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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Software Developer at TD Securities
Posted Apr 21, 2012
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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 Feb 2011 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 2 days)
Got lead from head hunter. They had contract and full-time developer positions available. I wanted full-time. Interviewed with IT manager. Asked finance and coding questions.
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Negotiation Details
No negotiation.
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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Technology Associate at TD Securities
Posted Feb 28, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 3 weeks)
Interview consisted of 2 rounds of interviews. First round was two 1 on 1 interviews with a Manager and another Associate. This was at the University.
Second round was at TD Securities Head Office in Toronto. There was 2 interviews, first one was a panel of 2 Managers. The second one was a Manager and a HR representative.
Tough interview, be prepared for financial questions not just programming/Technology questions.
They also had a couple of bran teasers such as why are pot hole covers round and not square?
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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TD Securities Services Associate (Summer Internship) at TD Securities
Posted Feb 26, 2012
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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 2012 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 1+ week)
Applied online, received email inviting me for an interview in Toronto. I live in a different province so we arranged for a phone interview instead. There was 2 interviews in 1 day: The first was with 2 ladies from HR who asked mostly behavioural questions. The 2nd interview was with 2 executives who actually work in the group you are interviewing for (in my case it was either Operations or Trading Risk Services). The execs focused a lot on specific questions drawing on my resume (i.e. "In your resume you mention options trading, can you tell me about an options strategy that you have used?") Don't bs on your resume cause they will ask you about it.
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Negotiation Details
Wasn't able to negotiate much, it's an Internship so you kinda take what you get.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Background Check.
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Corporate Credit Investment Banking at TD Securities
Posted Nov 23, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 2 weeks)
There were in all 5 rounds and two cocktail events split into two events. The first event in Vancouver consisted of a cocktail reception and two round of interviews with the VP and Associate. This event took place over a span of two days. After three days the VP called me up to confirm that I had qualified for the final rounds to be conducted in Toronto. I flew to Toronto the following week. During the reception in Toronto I found out that I was the only guy shortlisted from Vancouver and most of the other finalists were from either Rotman or Ivey. Following the reception I had three rounds of interview with two MD's and one VP-HR.
Interviews - Most behavioral and fit, some macro economic discussions, discussion on past work ex and current MBA program.
Receptions - Friendly, elegant, and fun
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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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Investment Banking Analyst at TD Securities
Posted Oct 2, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 in Montreal, QC (Canada) (took 3 weeks)
TD Securities was very open and actively communicated with me throughout the interview process. Interviews were largely based on fit (attitude, work ethic, ambitions, etc), with little emphasis placed on hard skills. The assumption made be the interviewers was that if made it to interview, you had the skills required to do the job.
Interview process consisted of 3 rounds (plus 1 final round with the group head). Feedback was given after each round.
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Negotiation Details
There was no negotiation phase.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Desktop Publisher at TD Securities
Posted Sep 15, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 (took a day)
The manager contacted me with some technical test, and I tough it was great, because the hiring manager is the one that contacted me not some HR BS. The next day they follow up with a phone interview with HR and the hiring manager. Less than a day, they call me again to confirm 1 on 1 interview. And I thought it’s even better, they seems to like me.
On the 1on1 interview date, they seems very nice and responsive, the interview goes pretty well from my observation. All the indication that they like me, it is all there.
At the end of interview, they told me that it would take them 5 days to decide. And I said great, feeling home with confident that I will get hired. One week pass by and nothing, no email or phone call. I sent them email with no response. Three weeks goes by, not even a single email or telephone call, I felt really weird, since the process was looked promising. Being a Canadian at least they have a decency to tell you that you don’t get into the pool.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Summer Associate at TD Securities
Posted Sep 14, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 1+ week)
I got a phone call for an interview and had one set up by my career centre. All candidates were invited to a networking reception a few days before their interviews. There were two back-to-back interviews. The first round was with HR and the second round was with three Managers. 90% of the questions were based on behavioural/fit. Just be willing to learn, and meet as many people and ask as many questions as you can during the reception.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Software Developer at TD Securities
Posted Jul 16, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Jul 2011 (took 3 days)
After posting my resume in monster.ca, a recruiter contacted me informing me of an opportunity to be a part of a young software developer team. He asked me some questions about my skills and see if they match what TD was looking for. He believes so, so he arranged the technical interview with TD manager.
The technical interview was suppose to be in front of at least 2 people (1 line manager, 1 project manager). It consists of 30-45 mins interview (past experience, and some technical interview) and then 1.5 hours of written test. The face to face interview was only between the line manager and I, since the project manager was sick (I got lucky).
Once manager thought I was good enough in first round, I got second "technical interview". I didn't know then but I saw the big boss(or the project manager), and the interview was not technical at all. It is all about past experiences, etc. It lasted for about 30 mins, when the interview was suppose to be an hour. He basically talked about the position and perks of being part of TD.
They then contacted me back, asking if I am willing to join them.
Pointers to remember:
1) Know your skills - I am a fresh graduate, with internship experience programming in Java. I applied for a job that requires core Java, and hence I should know Java by heart.
2) Be poised when thrown questions you are not comfortable with. You don't have to agree with the question or point the interviewer is trying to make, but you don't have to react too much about it that shows you are upset. Just be composed.
3) I applied for software job so know the basics, such as data structure. I don't think they expect you to code usual CS algorithms (merge sort, quick sort, etc), but it doesn't hurt to review them.
4) Just know how to analyze. Some of the questions that he asked me were things I never thought of studying prior to interview - they are more real world scenarios but still relate to things I have learned in school. I showed to him that I didn't prepare for questions like those, but I thought about the question and started telling him what made sense to me, and suddenly, theory I learned started coming back. Point is, I found it easier to answer questions by thinking of problems from a practical mind set, then see if you can enforce the knowledge with theoretical backing.
As for the impression I get, I think they are work driven (only expected). Don't expect to work for TD (at least for this team), if you care about work life balance. They claim they pay over time, so that is good. I work extra beyond my hours anyway when I was an intern and not get paid. I cannot comment on office as I didn't get a formal tour of the work place yet. But from the offices that I have passed by, they seem like a typical corporate office - cubicles, less open space.
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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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IT Business Analyst at TD Securities
Posted Jun 14, 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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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 3 days)
It's a 4-month coop interview
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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