Research Associate

Status
Research Associate at
Group/Division/Type
Research
City
London
Interviewed
September 2013
Overall experience
Very Negative
Difficulty
Very Difficult

General Interview Information

Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month

Interview Details

What did the interview consist of?
1 on 1 Interview
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
I got the interview through a recruiter. I was warned that the guy I was meeting was pretty harsh in interviews. I was to meet with a member of the research management, I asked if I was to prepare anything specific in advance, and was told no.

When I turned up the interviewer was pretty cold, and asked for me to move rooms first off. During the interview, I was asked standard things like my motivations for wanting to move to research, and achievements to date which was fine. Then we moved onto a stock I liked. I was pitching the stock, why I thought it was cheap etc. I was then questioned on it to an extremely detailed level. I was asked about the geographical split of revenue over it's operating segments, as well as how many employees it had. These things were not items which affected the investment case in my eyes, and besides, I had not actually been asked to prepare anything, so to have to know things in this level of detail seemed unfair. Needless to say, I was not invited back for a second round!
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