Point72 Interview Questions
Updated Jan 22, 2023
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Anonymous Employee
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Point72
Summer analyst position on the MI Team. The entire Process last about 2 month. Consist a total of 4 rounds… The interviewers were super nice… Overall great experience. I also accepted the offer immediately
- Regular behaviors, financial markets, interests…
Anonymous Interview Candidate
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Point72
Basic interview, covered a lot of previous experience and competencies. Performed well but was interviewed by someone less experienced than me which felt a little weird. Not selected to move further
- Tell me more about a software package you worked with at a previous job
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Anonymous Interview Candidate
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Point72
very fast moving, excellent process, about 4-6 rounds in total with one case study, process was complete within 3 weeks. met team members and PM. really enjoyed the process. bla bla bla bla
- your background and why you want to work there why leave current job etc.
Anonymous Employee
I interviewed at Point72
5 rounds of interviews, first is a question list. long process, hard; very intellectual challenging. the final round is very picky, interviewers are from the academy with experience as a L/S analyst or PM. Good experience overall
- Why Point72 Stock pitch political questions
Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Point72
1 PM from NY. Mainly go through the CV. 2 Projects. There are three projects in 3 hours. Regular data analysis. Like a numerical method to solve equations, regression, and classification. 3 TBD...
- CV details (research and working experience) and motivation
Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Point72
Interviewed w the entire team- very intensive multi stage interviews with both behavioral and technical questions. Be ready to have answers to in depth valuation techniques for many different products
- Why Point72? Why buy side?
Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Point72
Two phone interviews (roughly 1 hour each) that follow the same process: Intro of yourself & research-related questions; technical questions on regression, statistics and machine learning; case study; questions for Point72
- How does coefficient change moving from univariate regression to multivariate regression?
Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Point72
A 30min first-round interview after the online coding assessment. I was told to be asked questions about statistics/machine learning but a team member asks some logistic questions: 1. Do you know what our company is doing? 2. What's your understanding of business?
Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Point72
applied from the company's website. first round is 60 minutes online assessment (sql and python questions) , and following with 2 rounds of 30 min interview with team members (non technical basically)
- SQL and python coding, previous experience
Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Point72
Coding interview including some SQL questions and some programming challenge questions - had an hour and half to complete once the test started and week to complete after the initial email
- Write a SQL query to solve this problem
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Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Point72 as 49.0% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.00 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Analyst and Intern rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Summer Analyst and Data Scientist roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Point72 takes an average of 26 days when considering 284 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Data Scientist had the quickest hiring process (on average 18 days), whereas Analyst roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 43 days).
Common stages of the interview process at Point72 according to 284 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone Interview: 29.73%
One on One Interview: 18.92%
Presentation: 16.22%
IQ Intelligence Test: 9.09%
Drug Test: 6.39%
Personality Test: 5.65%
Background Check: 5.65%
Group Panel Interview: 3.93%
Other: 2.95%
Skills Test: 1.47%
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