BlueCrest Capital Management Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (71%)

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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
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (90%)

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.

3.7
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

Interviews at BlueCrest Capital Management

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2nd Year Associate
Year 2020
Job Title 2nd Year Associate
Group/Division Quantitative Research
Location LONDON
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
2nd Year Associate
Year 2020
Job Title 2nd Year Associate
Group/Division Quantitative Research
Location LONDON
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
Trading Assistant
Year 2012
Job Title Trading Assistant
Group/Division FICC - Fixed Income Currency and Commodities
Location New York
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Analyst
Year 2014
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Equity Capital Markets
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - BlueCrest Capital Management Examples

Quantitative Analyst Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous interview candidate in LONDON
Interviewed: April 2020
Date Submitted: Apr 20, 2021
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
What is the difference between lasso and ridge regression? What is an L-1 and L-2 norm, and what would a L-0.5 norm look like?
Interview Questions
What is the difference between lasso and ridge regression? What is an L-1 and L-2 norm, and what would a L-0.5 norm look like?
Sample Answer

Trading Assistant Interview - FICC - Fixed Income Currency and Commodities

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: 2012
Date Submitted: Feb 08, 2015
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
2-3 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
I was brought in to meet with 3 Portfolio Managers. They specialized in slightly different fields within the macro (credit, sovereign fixed income, or everything macro).
Interview Questions
General, however, I was asked a few technical questions such as DV01 and how to hedge a credit spread.
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Analyst Interview - Equity Capital Markets

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: December 2014
Date Submitted: Dec 18, 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Staffing Agency
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
I was contacted by a headhunter for a role at the Systematic Equities fund. She told me the interview was to be done in January, but I told her I would prefer the interview to be pushed up, and Bluecrest agreed to do so. I had two one on one interviews in the NYC office, but they put me through on video link to their Geneva office perhaps because of my request. The first interview was mostly a technical interview focused on statistics knowledge, and the second one about the role and had some questions based on knowledge of finance theory.

The first interviewer seemed genuinely interested in the job, saying that it was a kind of collegiate culture without too much pressure. The second interview didn't go so well, so I didn't ask what he felt about working at the company.
Interview Questions
No brainteasers were asked, most were questions about knowledge of econometrics and statistics. Basic questions about theory of OLS and times when you might have problems applying it.
Second interview had a question about my dissertation (he really grilled me about it, and I didn't recall exactly what I had written in one of the equations). He also asked me about CAPM.
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