Allianz Global Investors Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (99%)

The Interview Experience is a score from 1 star (very negative) to 5 stars (very positive) 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. If you hover over the various sections of the donut, 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 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.

4.4
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Interview Difficulty (72%)

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.

2.4
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  • Average
  • Difficult
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% Interns - FT Offers (27%)

The % of Interns Getting a Full Time Offer chart is meant to provide a realistic estimate of the hiring practices of the company based on the reviews at this company.

The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. 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 reviews). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to the simple company average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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Interviews at Allianz Global Investors

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Year 2024
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Generalist
Location London
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Difficult
Intern
Year 2022
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Investments
Location Munich
Experience
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Difficulty
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Year 2022
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Infrastructure
Location New York
Experience
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Difficulty
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Year 2021
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Location Paris
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Location New York
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Location HK
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Year 2020
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Location New York
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Group/Division Business Development
Location New York
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Year 2016
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Portfolio Management
Location Frankfurt
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Difficulty
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Year 2016
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Fixed Income
Location New York
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Interview Questions & Answers - Allianz Global Investors Examples

Off-cycle Analyst Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed: February 2024
Date Submitted: Feb 14, 2024
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Interview
1: Phone Interview with Dartmouth discussing motivation
2: Video interview with Dartmouth discussing motivation and technicals
3. AC with 2 interviews and a group interview. Group interview is on evaluating Infra investments and then there is one technical and one motivational interview.
Interview Questions
Asked about key metrics for different Infra products
Asked about different structure and the impact on DCF e.g. some agreements with governments means that Capex is added back and is an above the line expense etc.
What would be the WACC for a development Finance deal?
Sample Answer

Intern Interview - Investments

Anonymous employee in Munich
Interviewed: October 2022
Date Submitted: Oct 19, 2023
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Two video interviews with Senior Portfolio Manager and Portfolio Manager. The interviews were mostly fit-behavioural, some technical knowledge of fixed income was required for the technical. People were pleasant and they made me feel comfortable
Interview Questions
I believed something more of private debt, instead it was focused on fixed income mostly
Sample Answer

Institutional Sales Intern Interview - Infrastructure

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: March 2022
Date Submitted: Mar 14, 2023
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Personality Test
Drug Test
Background Check
Interview
I had two interview processes, one with the recruiting firm Dartmouth Partners and one superday with Senior Associates and VPs at Allianz Global Investors. The first interview was a video interview with DP which was slightly challenging as I did not know what to expect and was sometimes asked about the insurance industry out of the blue. Other than that, everything else was really straight forward. I'd argue my interview with the AllianzGI interviews was much simpler and it ended up being a conversation with one of them as I go to a school in the midwest and he went to the rival school.
Interview Questions
1. How would you pursue institutional investors in making investments in Emerging Markets considering various other issues present?
Sample Answer

Intern - Credit Research Interview - Credit

Anonymous interview candidate in Paris
Interviewed: April 2021
Date Submitted: Nov 18, 2021
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
The process was fast tracked as they were looking to hire an intern for Q1 initially before settling for Q2. I received a call directly from one of the senior members of the Credit Research team and set up a 1-1 interview for the next week. The interview was over Teams and lasted around 1 hour. Most of the questions were related to my previous internship experience, what I did and how it would translate to CR. Having good IT skills in VBA/SQL will be looked on very favorably. Not too many technicals, just recent market trends and a question on Z-scores.
Interview Questions
How would you calculate Z-score?
Sample Answer

summer intern Interview - Generalist

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: January 2019
Date Submitted: Oct 27, 2021
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
The hiring process was pretty smooth. One phone interview and the superday interview consisting of 6 interviews back to back
Interview Questions
None
Sample Answer

Intern Interview - Sales

Anonymous interview candidate in HK
Interviewed: June 2021
Date Submitted: Oct 05, 2021
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
The first round of interviews is with HR. Introduce yourself then follow up on your CV questions.
Second rounds is with the team manager. Ask about their team and why are you interested in AGI.
Very typical interview
Interview Questions
Why AGI? Anything you know about out company?
Sample Answer

Summer Intern, Global Fixed Income Interview - Asset Management

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: March 2020
Date Submitted: Oct 20, 2020
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Drug Test
Background Check
Interview
Applied through online resume drop and received hirevue after 2 weeks. Hirevue consisted of a series of behavioral questions as well as fairly standard technicals: what do you think is important to analyze an investment opportunity etc. Took another 2 weeks to hear back from hr for a superday in their NYC office. Superday was 4 one-on-one interviews with PMs/managers from the teams hiring interns.
Interview Questions
Walk me through how you would analyze the creditworthiness of a hotel
Sample Answer

Graduate program Interview - Business Development

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: October 2018
Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2018
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Presentation
Skills Test
Personality Test
Interview
applied online, completed numerical and personality tests, did 3 rounds of skype interviews with HR + co-heads of division, then invited to assessment center with group exercises and case studies, then a final round of 5 skype interviews with the executives of the firm
Interview Questions
nothing super unexpected - just make sure you have your story straight, they're very open to clarifying more about the program and it's very flexible to your goals as well. the case study for my track had quite a vague prompt so I wasn't sure initially whether I was going in the right direction, I went for a creative solution without thinking a ton about feasibility but it worked out fine. overall, the entire process is very focused on your raw abilities (from numerical test to the assessment center team activities) and learning more about you as a person
Sample Answer

Intern: Portfoliomanagment - Multi Asset at Allianz Global Investors Interview - Portfolio Management

Anonymous employee in Frankfurt
Interviewed: March 2016
Date Submitted: Mar 06, 2018
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
I sent my CV and CL via the online application tool. After a month I got a phone call from the head of Multi-Asset. We talked a bit about portfolio management, my background in math and my skills in financial mathematics. He asked me about my programming knowledge (VBA, Matlab, Python).
Interview Questions
What does a portfolio manager do? What do you expect?
What do you know about Allianz Global Investors?
Why Allianz Global Investors and not some Bank?
Do you have another offers?
What is your current GPA? What is your specialisation are you more a theoretical math guy or more probability and statistics?
What did you learn about options in the course financial mathematics? Explain a put.
If you have a return of 2% per month, how much is this over a year?
Do you have any programming experience in VBA or even Matlab? What about Python?
Sample Answer

Fixed Income Summer Analyst Interview - Fixed Income

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: May 2016
Date Submitted: Aug 09, 2017
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Drug Test
Background Check
Interview
Applied through career services, recieved phone call to come in for interview. Had 2 interviews, one with HR of Investment Division, other interview with Director I would be working under.
Interview Questions
What sort of projects were you working on using Visual Basic,
can you explain the relationship between coupon and convexity,
if interest rates are supposed to increase, how would I adjust the duration of my portfolio of long bonds,
can you explain VaR to me? how about conditional VaR, what are the disadvantages of using VaR
can you explain duration to me,
how is coupon rate related to duration,
why major in finance and actuarial science, why NYU
can you speak hindi to me (had hindi as language on my resume)
Sample Answer