BlackRock Quant Research Intern interview questions
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First an interview with team members to review resume and experience, 3 hour coding project and then a discussion to walk through your work after. Totally reasonable to do in the given time frame
3 rounds of interviews, first with someone from HR, then a second round "preliminary" phone call with 2 members of the team (scenario questions, motivation), then the final round (interviewed remotely via video-call) consisting of 4 interviews: Culture & fit, Research Skills, Knowledge of Markets, and Technical Skills
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Culture Fit: - 10 weeks to work on a project, how would you approach it? - Biggest challenge? Research skills: - how would you detect outliers in a massive dataset? - how would you merge this massive data with new data? Markets: - How would you update me on what's happened to the markets over the past 2 years? - How does political risk come into the markets? Technical (verbal): - How can you check file sizes in SSH? - How would you code the fibonacci sequence?