Portfolio Management Summer Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Dimensional Fund Advisors with 2.5 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 62.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Portfolio Management Summer Analyst roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Dimensional Fund Advisors overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Dimensional Fund Advisors as a Portfolio Management Summer Analyst according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
Drug test: 33%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Dimensional Fund Advisors (Charlotte, NC) in Feb 2019
Interview
3 rounds:
- Phone call with HR, behavioral
- Phone call with Analyst, behavioral but more fit questions
- Superday with 5 back to back interviews.
Superday was not too difficult, but you might get grilled on some hypotheticals. No right or wrong answer, just to see how you manage under stress.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Basic statistics
- Why DFA
- Describe our investing process
- Describe our investing thesis
- Fama / French 3 factor model
- Market outlook
- How would you invest xxx amount of money.
First interview was only behavioral, the second was also behavioral with a few technicals. Overall nothing super hard I performed well in the first one but not the best in the second