I applied online. I interviewed at BlackRock (London, England) in Feb 2024
Interview
1 HackerRank coding question
2 video interview questions:
"Tell us something not on your CV"
"Why BlackRock?"
1 Technical Interview with current employee:
You're given a problem on Hackerrank and then you have to solve the coding problem by writing pseudocode. They'll ask you questions about your methods and why you did certain things.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a program to determine if the current configuration of a tic tac toe board will lead to a win on the next move for the 'X' player.
A winning configuration is one where there is 3 'X's in a row -> 2 'X's in the same column, row or diagonal means that the 'X' player can win on the next move
The program must output the coordinate of the location that will result in a win, in the format x, y
I applied online. I interviewed at BlackRock (London, England)
Interview
2x 30 mins interviews, why Blackrock, asked about economic events, asked to do a stock pitch, was given 2ish minutes to think of a company and do SWOT analysis on it
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me about a company you use a lot and if its a good company
Interview with the PPP Group (private equity). One round of fit questions with investor relations team, one round of technical questions with the investment team. Technical questions include valuation method, explaining rationale of certain recent deals, etc. The IR team was quite nice, but the investment team members did not care at all about the interview. A VP was clearly working / not listening while I was speaking, and the goal of the analyst was clearly to go as technical as possible with the candidate, which did not feel like interviewing for a discovery week programme.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talk about valuations methods
Case study: if company X were to sell their Y branch, how would that affect your LBO model and assumptions
I applied online. I interviewed at BlackRock (London, England)
Interview
I submitted my application: A CV and some information about my school, and wrote some written answers. Then I did a HV and answered a few questions online. never heard back after.