Blue Mountain Capital Interview Questions

5 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (73%)

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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.

3.6
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (87%)

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.

3.2
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

Interviews at Blue Mountain Capital

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Intern
Year 2016
Job Title Intern
Group/Division N/A
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2015
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Investment Management
Location New York
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
3rd+ Year Associate
Year 2015
Job Title 3rd+ Year Associate
Group/Division Valuation
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Investment Analyst
Year 2014
Job Title Investment Analyst
Group/Division Real Estate
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Developer
Year 2012
Job Title Developer
Group/Division
Location New York
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average

Interview Questions & Answers - Blue Mountain Capital Examples

BlueMountain Capital Management Interview

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: November 2016
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
The first round was a phone interview, where we discussed my background and past experience with the hiring manager. The second round was with the four portfolio manager to discuss further on the projects and knowledge in finance.
Interview Questions
If we flip a coin 100 times, what is the probability of getting even number of heads?
There are an unknown amount of people on a bus. After the first stop, three-quarters of them get off and 7 get on. This happens again a two more stops. After this process, what is the minimum amount of possible people that could be on the bus?
What is the minimum number of people you need to put in a room so that at least five of them share a birth month?
Imagine I flip 100 coins in a sequence, and you need to guess the sequence. You are allowed to ask one yes/no question. What do you ask to maximize the probability of guessing the sequence?

Quant trading intern Interview - Investment Management

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: March 2015
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
IQ / Intelligence Test
Personality Test
Interview
Got the interview by networking with one of their MD. Questions include behavioral ones such as walk me through your resume and also some very technical questions such as options questions, stock long/short pitch and a brain teaser.
Interview Questions
1. Pitch me a stock: I pitch one stock them the interviewer asked if I can short another stock at the same time, which I didn't really think of.
2. Draw me the option put call parity graph.
3. Do you do coding in C#?
4. You have two baskets and 50 white balls plus 50 black balls, how can you allocate these 100 balls into these two baskets so that the chance you getting a white ball will be maximized?

Valuation Associate Interview - Valuation

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: June 2015
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Recruiter had contacts at Blue Mountain and presented my Resume for Valuation role at Blue Mountain. Met with couple junior level analyst/associates. Did not get the second round.
Interview Questions
As this was a First Round Interview, I only got general questions about my background and Resume, and financial products I have knowledge about.

Real Estate Analyst Interview - Real Estate

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: March 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Learned of the opportunity from a headhunter (SG Partners). Blue Mountain is moving away from relative value correlation trading (given the shrinking size of the CDS market, etc) and looking to establish itself as a multi-strategy hedge fund, and the real estate group had only 3 senior level employees. I enjoyed speaking with them and got along well, but they were looking to hire 2 analysts, and they had already hired one - unfortunately the one they hired match my skill set / profile, and for the second hire they needed someone with experience negotiating purchase and sale legal documents. The interviewers were very sharp, be prepared to defend everything on your resume, have a strong answer for why Blue Mountain, why Real Estate, etc
Interview Questions
Why Blue Mountain? Why Real Estate? What opportunities do you think are attractive right now? Why are you looking to leave your current role? What Questions do you have for us?

Developer Interview -

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: 2012
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Skills Test
Interview
No phone interview but an online coding quiz first on interviewstreet.com. Once you pass that then the next step is an on-site.
Interview Questions
Write a program in the language of your choice to find a certain element in a tree and return it's depth.