Please describe the interview / hiring process.
A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn about the opportunity. We talked on the phone, he said he would submit my resume. I followed up with him a week later, but he ignored me, so I figured that I should just forget about it. (The recruiter was like that the whole time, really unresponsive and unhelpful). Anyways, a few days later, he emailed me back and said that Bridgewater was interested and wanted me to do their online screening. I had to watch a bunch of videos about Bridgewater's culture of "radical transparency" and then take some personality tests. Then about 2 weeks later, the recruiter got back to me and sent me an Excel productivity forecast test to complete. Interestingly enough, they gave me the weekend to complete it and send it back, but in the email, they said, "please spend no more than 45-60 min. on it." After that, it was another week before the recruiter finally emailed me back and said that Bridgewater wanted to set up a phone interview with me. At the beginning, we introduced ourselves to each other, and then he asked me to tell him about some analytical projects I've worked on, but then the rest of the phone interview was spent talking about the Excel exercise. He was nice but definitely very tough. Most of the conversation went really well but then I got stuck on one question, which I posted below. I had a complete brain fart in the moment, and it didn't exactly help me concentrate when he kept responding to everything I said with, "Nopeee. Can you think of anything else?" A week later I got an email saying they'd decided not to move forward with my candidacy.
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