Aberdeen Standard Investments Interview Questions

3 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (88%)

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The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire dataset.

4.7
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (86%)

The Interview Difficulty is a score ranging from very difficult (red) to very easy (green) generated based on the Interview Insights at this company.

The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. The higher the number, the more difficult the interviews on average. If you hover over the various sections of the doughnut, you will see the % breakdown of each score given.

The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more insights, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire data set.

3.3
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

Interviews at Aberdeen Standard Investments

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Year 2021
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Investment Management
Location Shanghai
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Intern
Year 2020
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Equity Research
Location London
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Average
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Year 2018
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Macro
Location London
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average

Interview Questions & Answers - Aberdeen Standard Investments Examples

equities Interview - Investment Management

Anonymous employee in Shanghai
Interviewed: September 2021
Date Submitted: Mar 09, 2022
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Presentation
IQ / Intelligence Test
Personality Test
Interview
First online test. Then I talk with HR. After the HR, you talk with core team members ( 4 rounds back to back). Questions include stock pitch, why investment, CV questions etc. After that you will do a case study including modelling and then talk with the head. The whole process is smooth and professional. People are nice
Interview Questions
Pitch me a stock
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Investment intern Interview - Equity Research

Anonymous employee in London
Interviewed: February 2020
Date Submitted: Aug 16, 2020
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
2-3 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Presentation
Interview
First round phone interview. Applied in Dec., did the phone interview in late Jan.
Final round was assessment center, did it in late Feb. consists of one case study (1-1 presentation), group case stduy and 1 hour 1-1 interview.
Interview Questions
That was during the 1-1 1 hour interview session. There were two interviewers, coming from different divisions. After some very common type of behavioral and competencies based questions (teamwork experience, challenge, leadership experience etc.), they asked me about a teamwork experience that involves integrity. I don't remember the exact question, but it is more like when you encounter an not integrity situtation, what did you do, how did you deal with it. It is honestly not easy to answer that question.
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Smmer Internship Interview - Macro

Anonymous employee in London
Interviewed: February 2018
Date Submitted: Apr 15, 2018
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
2-3 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Presentation
IQ / Intelligence Test
Personality Test
Interview
Standard phone interview covering behavioural questions. Applied for an investment role and surprisingly there was no technical questions asked but rather situational ones.
(E.g: Tell me a time where you showed leadership, teamwork, integrity etc. etc.)
Interview Questions
Did not actually occur to me but heard from one of the people within my AC. They asked if you could be cartoon character, who would you be and why. Honestly caught some of them off guard.
Other than that, probably something related to the industry and what are the key challenges etc. Try to read up on MIFID (pretty no brainer there)
Not sure what I can add from it but try to have a number of situations backed up for your interview since there are quite a number of questions that they ask (more than the usual I would say)
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