Alpha Pension Group Interview Questions

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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 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.

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Summer Associate Intern
Year 2013
Job Title Summer Associate Intern
Group/Division Investment Management
Location Watertown
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Interview Questions & Answers - Alpha Pension Group Examples

Summer Analyst Interview - Investment Management

Anonymous employee in Watertown
Interviewed: May 2013
Date Submitted: May 12, 2016
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
I met one of the associates at an on-campus event and then interviewed with one of the partners. Overall basic interview set up, mainly fit questions and some basic finance questions.
Interview Questions
Most of the questions were fit questions. "Tell me about yourself." "Tell me about a time you had to balance two deadlines." "Tell me about a time you had to resolve a conflict within a group setting."

There was one question about asset allocation in reference to a fake market scenario...

I was given a list of asset classes with an previous one, three, and five year returns and then was asked how I would distribute 10,000,000 dollars across the asset classes, and to explain my reasoning. It was a fairly open ended exercise, they wanted to see how I think
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