I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at CRISIL (Buenos Aires) in Oct 2015
Interview
first of all you are interviewed for the direct boss in English and spanish and it includes a techical interview, after you have an interview with human resources department. The will decide if you pass it, according to your english level and your capabilities in the techical part, your knowledge in econometrics, time series and finance.
Entrevista telefónica con recursos humanos. Entrevista telefonica y presencial sobre conocimientos técnicos con futuro mánager. Prueba de nivel de inglés. Entrevista telefónica con cliente extranjero sobre conocimientos técnicos y experiencia previa (o trabajos hechos durante estudios universitarios).
One phone interview and one on site. It takes about 2 weeks and the hiring process is very efficient. The first round is tech interview and second is non-tech which will discuss the benefit and work visa.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at CRISIL (Chennai) in Feb 2017
Interview
There are 3 stages of interview.
1) Manager Level
2) Director Level
3) Client Level
It took around one month of time. Overall experience was good. I found little bit difficulty in client level interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basically fundamental questions related to supervised & unsupervised modelling.
Explain Principal component analysis.
Explain difference between shallow copy & deep copy in Python.
Quantitative Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at CRISIL with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Quantitative Analyst roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at CRISIL overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at CRISIL as a Quantitative Analyst according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 18%
Skills test: 18%
One on one interview: 18%
Group panel interview: 9%
Background check: 9%
Phone interview: 9%
Drug test: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
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