Investment Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Bridgewater Associates with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 52% positive. To compare, the company-average is 41.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Investment Associate roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 66 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 Investment Associate according to 66 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 34%
One on one interview: 22%
Phone interview: 13%
IQ intelligence test: 11%
Personality test: 11%
Drug test: 2%
Background check: 2%
Other: 2%
Skills test: 2%
Presentation: 2%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bridgewater Associates (Palo Alto, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
Group discussion round, and the. multiple two-on-one interviews. Mix of philosophical / premise-based questions and behavioral. Interviewers were pretty deadpan, hard to read. Conversations were generally quite interesting. At one point I tried to relate things to economics and they didn’t seem to like that, they genuinely wanted to engage in an earnest way (pretty irregular for a finance interview in my experience).
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Question 1
“If you could press a button so that everyone alive right now would never die, would you do it or not?”
First round with HR.
Second round is a group discussion. Given a topic, there is no right or wrong. I think they are trying to understand your thinking process and how you deal with problems.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HR related general questions. Philosophy-like topic.
HR screen about you and your background, group discussion where you discuss an abstract philosophical question (e.g do you tax happiness, if you could make everyone believe one fact what would it be), analytical interview
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Question 1
You are netflix trying to figure out how much to pay for a new show/how much it's worth, what do you do
Analytical debate and then further rounds discussing quantitative problems, analytical studies, etc. etc. around 4 to 5 rounds in total and also questions on resume and experience etc etc. not super chill or super intensive, nothing much else to add