Programme Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at BlackRock with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 55% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Programme Analyst roles take an average of 33 days to get hired, when considering 11 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at BlackRock overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at BlackRock as a Programme Analyst according to 11 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 24%
One on one interview: 24%
Skills test: 18%
Presentation: 12%
Background check: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Group panel interview: 6%
Personality test: 6%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at BlackRock in Jun 2012
Interview
Four phone interview screening.
Talk about your background and working experiences before.
Then skill tests about regression analysis.
Case studies with two senior statistician
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
The manager give you a credit loan portfolio and 500 variables, how could you decide whether credit loan is good or bad?
You have run the simple regression on one variable, and it is not significant. But you run a multiple regression, and find it is significant with other candidate variables. How do you explain this? How would choose it?
Interview process involves 3 recorded video interviews. When submitting an application, you have the opportunity to apply to 2 roles. If one of these roles is located in a foreign country, then the first recorded interview would need to be in that country's primary language.
I applied online. I interviewed at BlackRock (London, England) in Nov 2022
Interview
After completing the online test, I was asked to take a pre-recorded interview. In the pre-recorded interview, they had two questions which were quite straightforward. For each question, you have 2 minutes to think and 1.5 minutes to answer. I applied for the programme analyst in two different sectors had thus had two pre-recorded interviews. However, both asked the same questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
>Why BlackRock? >Tell me something about you that we can't see from your resume.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at BlackRock
Interview
The interview process was quick, it took 2 weeks for the entire process.
People seemed to be nice and easy to talk with during an interview. All questions were general questions, company culture, why BlackRock etc.