Senior Associate applicants have rated the interview process at New York Life with 3.2 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 57.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Associate roles take an average of 41 days to get hired, when considering 12 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at New York Life overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at New York Life as a Senior Associate according to 12 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 26%
One on one interview: 19%
Background check: 16%
Group panel interview: 10%
Skills test: 10%
Personality test: 6%
Drug test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Presentation: 3%
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HR screen, a meeting with the hiring manager, met some people from the team, take home test which they give one week to do, presenting the answers with Q&A session after, some leadership team and got an offer after a couple of days
HR gave full details of role , pay range, location strategy and asked if interested to move forward.
scheduled 1st round with in a week. after 20 days scheduled the 2nd round. of interview.
with in a week of 2nd round , gave the offer letter.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about SDLC process, people strategy, how technology changes were handled
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at New York Life (New York, NY) in Nov 2025
Interview
I had 4 interview rounds:
A recruiter screen
Hiring manager
Technical Round
Team Fit
The interviews were fairly straightforward. I was asked questions relevant to my role and systems design/architecture questions. Nothing tricky.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me to discuss how I'd previously designed data framework.