Fidelity International Interview Questions

10 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (88%)

The Interview Experience is a score from 1 star (very negative) to 5 stars (very positive) 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. If you hover over the various sections of the donut, 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 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.

3.8
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (94%)

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.

3.1
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult
% Interns - FT Offers (90%)

The % of Interns Getting a Full Time Offer chart is meant to provide a realistic estimate of the hiring practices of the company based on the reviews at this company.

The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. 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 reviews). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to the simple company average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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Interviews at Fidelity International

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Intern
Year 2021
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Equity Research
Location London
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2022
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Asset Management
Location London
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
1st Year Analyst
Year 2022
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Equity Research
Location London
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
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Research Analyst
Year 2020
Job Title Research Analyst
Group/Division Investment Research
Location Toronto
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2020
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Equity Research
Location n/a
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
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Year 2019
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Equity Research
Location Washington
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Easy
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Year 2019
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Asset Management
Location London
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
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Intern
Year 2019
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Fixed Income
Location London
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2019
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Equity Research
Location London
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2019
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Product Management
Location Taipei
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average

Interview Questions & Answers - Fidelity International Examples

Spring intern Interview - Equity Research

Anonymous employee in London
Interviewed: February 2021
Date Submitted: Mar 05, 2023
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
2-3 months
Application
Personality Test
Interview
CV and Cover Letter followed by a personality test with situational questions and a few problems. This is then followed by a video interview
Interview Questions
What makes you a good candidate
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Summer Intern Interview - Asset Management

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed: January 2022
Date Submitted: Aug 19, 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
2-3 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Presentation
Interview
Very pleasant experience with friendly hiring team. Maths/problem solving online tests, followed by online itnerviews, followed by an online assesement centre day.
Interview Questions
To provide a stock pitch on Target, and be able to explain your hypothesis.
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Equity Research Interview - Equity Research

Anonymous employee in London
Interviewed: January 2022
Date Submitted: Apr 06, 2022
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
2-3 months
Application
Presentation
Skills Test
Personality Test
Interview
Got to know them through Bright Network's 'Women in Leadership' Programme. Received personalised email notifying me that applications were open. First CV stage (no cover letter), then two online assessments. Both untimed, some quantitative calculations (percentage), some textual understanding and problem solving. Final round online assessment centre. Met other candidates, morning strengths based interview ('tell me about a time when you...'), then stockpitch. Our stock was Netflix, everyone received the same stock. 2h20 min research time, 20 minute presentation on stocks, and ten minutes on whether to buy bonds. Panel of three people.
Interview Questions
Stock pitch: not just on stocks, but also bonds.
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Research Analyst Interview - Investment Research

Anonymous interview candidate in Toronto
Interviewed: October 2020
Date Submitted: Feb 28, 2021
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Presentation
Interview
I first spoke to an HR recruiter who got a sense of whether or not I was relevant for the role. I then spoke to the research director based in Toronto. I met with the team in Canada and in the UK and met with some PMs based in the UK. My final interview involved a 1 hour presentation on a company they provided to me, I was given 4 days to work on it. The people were very nice, but ultimately I did not get the role because I did not have the requisite amount of experience they had wanted.
Interview Questions
I didn't get any question that I thought was particularly difficult or unexpected.
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Equity Research Interview - Equity Research

Anonymous interview candidate in n/a
Interviewed: December 2020
Date Submitted: Feb 22, 2021
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
2-3 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Presentation
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Personality Test
Interview
After passing the online test and pre-recorded video interviews, I got 1 on 1 interview with a PM. After that, it would be the final round, which is the P-test.
Interview Questions
What's your weakness in doing investment
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Intern Interview - Equity Research

Anonymous employee in Washington
Interviewed: October 2019
Date Submitted: Mar 17, 2020
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
2-3 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Background Check
Interview
Submitted an application to the company's website and was contacted about a week later by HR. Typical HR phone interview with basic background and why this company, etc.
Interview Questions
None of the questions were too too difficult. It's just another typical interview for the industry with the typical stock pitch etc. The company tries to focus a lot on hiring the right people with the same mindset and investing style. As long as people do their research and understand what the firm does, then the interview should not be a harder interview than most. Asked some markets questions as well as a stock pitch. Wanted to see what your investment thesis was and tried to push back on it and see if you really understood the company.
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Multi-Asset Intern Interview - Asset Management

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed: November 2019
Date Submitted: Jan 17, 2020
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
The first round consist in a video interview. If you get selected from the second you will get a Skype call with a recruiter (only fit questions).
Finally, there is an AC that involves case studies.
Interview Questions
The Video interview was an interactive platform where you are placed in different challenging you might face as an intern. For example, having to work in teams with people that are very different than you are, or having to handle different tasks at the same time.

The Phone Interview mainly included fit questions:
- How do you work in a team ?
- Why Fidelity ? Why this role ?
- How do you see yourself in 10 years ?
- What do you appreciate when working on a group project ?
- Qualities and Drawbacks ?
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Fixed income summer analyst Interview - Fixed Income

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed: November 2019
Date Submitted: Dec 12, 2019
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
I applied online and automatically received an online test, followed by a video interview if you passed the first one. 1 week later, I received a 1 on 1 skype interview with an HR.
Interview Questions
The online test was composed of situational judgement test questions and some basic quantitative questions, such as calculating share price growth/ currency exchange rate based on some given charts.
The pre-recorded video interview was to test how you react to hypothetical situtaions and there was no motivation questions.
The Skype interview was mostly behavioral + motivation questions, no technical question was asked. Questions included:
- Tell me about yourself
- Why fixed income
- How does a trend in the industry will impact the role you apply to
- How do you deal with mass of information
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Summer Analyst Interview - Equity Research

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed: November 2019
Date Submitted: Nov 09, 2019
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Skills Test
Other
Interview
First stage is uploading CV online. Second stage is doing an online situational judgement test which puts you through various workplace scenarios and asks you to rank certain responses. This also blends in some numerical questions. Next stage is a video interview consisting of the following questions: 1) While working at Fidelity International, what will be your primary motivation? 2) What specific knowledge and skills do you hope to develop at Fidelity International? 3) What might be the consequences of not delivering to deadlines at Fidelity International? 4) Working in investment, we cannot be correct all the time. How do you typically respond when you make a mistake? 5) Imagine you had to make an investment decision without having all the information needed. What would you do?. Final stage is an assessment centre.
Interview Questions
Only a couple of the video interview questions.

For example, as mentioned previously "Working in investment, we cannot be correct all the time. How do you typically respond when you make a mistake?"

Furthermore they also asked "Imagine you had to make an investment decision without having all the information needed. What would you do?".

My responses to both of these questions are listed below. The assessment centre questions are all pretty standard. Mostly consisting of technical AM questions and behavioural questions.
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Summer Intern Interview - Product Management

Anonymous employee in Taipei
Interviewed: March 2019
Date Submitted: Nov 06, 2019
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Personality Test
Background Check
Other
Interview
First comes with scenario test, and then video interview, followed by Excel and translation test, and finally manager-interview.
Interview Questions
The company hiring process was first comes with scenario test, then video interview, followed by Excel as well as translation test and finally interview with managers.

The most difficult part to me was translation. I was given several pieces of Bloomberg market news should finish it within 1 hours. The load was somehow big and I didn't finish all of them eventually. But fortunately, I did well in the interview and Excel session thus make my overall performance outstanding. As for the interview part, it was mainly competency-based and resume-related questions such as why this program, why our company, and so on. The difficulty of the interview wasn't quite high compared to the industry average. Do not over-worry about that part, just be yourself.
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