I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at S&P Global (New York, NY) in May 2022
Interview
A total of 5 rounds of interviews out of which 4 are on same day and 1 screening beforehand. Screening contains basic stats, ML, coding questions. final rounds are domain specific 1. coding (python + sql) 2. Statistics and ML 3. NLP + ML system design 4. Manager (Behavioral)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Chatbot design as per requirement for ML system design Basic ML and statistics Questions on NLP techniques (tfidf, word vectors etc.) leetcode hard
30 Minute Recruiter Call followed by a 30 minute interview with some short technical questions about python, time series and common development tools (no coding). There was one more interview but did not advance.
Four rounds: initial phone screen, live coding test, case study, on-site final round.
Initial phone screen: basic HR questions
Live coding: hacker rank medium-level question
Case study: coding a set of factors to create a factor model, backtest performance
On-site: review case study live, culture & fit
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Question 1
How could different correlation methods product different results when ranking a security universe?
I applied through university. I interviewed at S&P Global (Hyderābād) in Mar 2025
Interview
The interviewer was pretty chill, he asked me everything that I mentioned in my resume. He majorly focused on SQL and my knowledge on DBMS concepts , OOPs concepts and Data Viz tools(since I have mentioned them in resume). The interview went decent enough but I didnot get selected and nobody from my panel got selected even when the interview went well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Introduce yourself
2. Drew 2 tables and asked me who I would join them and asked 2-3 queries in SQL
3. Asked me basics of Excel and PowerBi
4. Asked core Java concepts and OOPs concepts and diff between functions and Methods
5. Asked me Python basics