I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bridgewater Associates (Princeton, NJ) in Sep 2016
Interview
They have a video interview and a group interview. The video interview is a typical hire value interview with 1 minute to prepare and 1-2 mins to talk. I would prepare by having a set of questions to ask them (they might ask you if you have questions the end). Pick something that shows focus and highlights your skills. The group interview happens in a room with two recruiters and 10 other candidates. Each candidate need to prepare a question and the recruiters will pick 1 or 2 or the best ones. They'll record the entire conversation. You need to prepare a question that is interesting / can spur a complex conversation. For example, some questions that were picked in my interviews: What would happen if organ selling would be legal? If genetic manipulation were perfected, should it be legal?. There's not really a way to prepare for it, but look for interesting debate questions to come up with your question for the interview. Look up research or articles related to that topic to gave relevant arguments since you might be discussing that question in the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you could change something about yourself, what would it be?
It was a four people group interview that discuss several philosophical questions.
The interviewer would intervene and redirect the conversation (quite often), which may or may not disrupt your thinking process.
It was not the worst but very unorhtox, I was expected to answer brainteaser questions and those that are not normally asked. It was truly helpful in finding myself as a person and it is definitely worth seeing their ivnesmtnet philosophy
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Bridgewater Associates (Hanover, NH) in Jun 2018
Interview
I only made it to the first round but essentially the first round was a group of 5-10 students discussing some relevant philosophical question. The interview is supposed to simulate what summer analysts do every morning which is discuss some kind of relevant current event
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Our philosophical question was whether a self driving car should swerve and kill the driver or continue driving straight and kill a pedestrian.
Summer Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Bridgewater Associates with 3.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 57% positive. To compare, the company-average is 41.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Summer Analyst roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bridgewater Associates overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bridgewater Associates as a Summer Analyst according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 40%
IQ intelligence test: 40%
Other: 10%
Phone interview: 10%
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