Manulife Financial Interview Questions

19 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (98%)

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.

4.1
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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.

2.8
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% Interns - FT Offers (54%)

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 Manulife Financial

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Year 2023
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Generalist
Location Toronto
Experience
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Difficulty
Average
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2023
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Corporate Finance
Location Toronto
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
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Year 2023
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Information Technology (IT)
Location Toronto
Experience
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Difficulty
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Summer Associate Intern
Year 2018
Job Title Summer Associate Intern
Group/Division Financial Institutions Group (FIG)
Location Toronto
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Easy
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Year 2015
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Financial Institutions Group (FIG)
Location Toronto
Experience
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Year 2019
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Risk
Location Hong Kong
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Year 2017
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Finance
Location Toronto
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
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1st Year Analyst
Year 2015
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Investment Research
Location Toronto
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Year 2018
Job Title Other
Group/Division Sales
Location Toronto
Experience
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Intern
Year 2016
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Asset Management
Location Toronto
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average

Interview Questions & Answers - Manulife Financial Examples

Corporate Finance Summer Intern Interview - Generalist

Anonymous employee in Toronto
Interviewed: January 2023
Date Submitted: Mar 14, 2023
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
The interview process was fairly simple. The first round was a case interview, this was a screener for essentially 70% of the candidates. Case study was just a business breakdown of a company (they provide all the information you need) and a quick financial analysis of how the company is doing based on ratios, comps, etc. (again, they give you all the relevant financials and industry ratios). Next was a super day, where you have a 30 minute behavioural interview with each of the 5 industry groups. The groups are 1) industrial, consumer, defence, and tech 2) natural resources 3) infrastructure 4) sovereign and sub-sovereign debt team 5) financial institutions group. The interview questions were mostly about prior experience and things like weakness/strength as well as situational questions (a time when you made a mistake), some of the groups asked me about how I would specifically think about lending to the industries that they cover (this was really the most technical part of the interview). Think about how you would perhaps lend to a university or any other such public institution, or maybe how you would think about lending to financial institutions such as REITS, PE funds, banks, etc. They extended offers 2 days after the super day.
Interview Questions
How would you conduct due diligence while lending to a University?
Sample Answer

Corporate Finance Summer Program Interview - Corporate Finance

Anonymous interview candidate in Toronto
Interviewed: February 2023
Date Submitted: Feb 05, 2023
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Group Interview
Skills Test
Interview
First -round consisted of case study directly pulled from a Western case. 1 hour to solve the case and submit online through email. Case was basic with questions asking 0.5 page quantitative analysis and 2-3 page qualitative analysis of the case. 3 basic questions covering the entire case. I applied online and received the first-round within a month of applying, very straight-forward case but be prepared by solving prior case studies. Process was simple with a MD introducing the firm & industries covering all operations.
Interview Questions
The most difficult part was solving the case (which consisted of qualitative and excel analysis) in under an hour. Be prepared to understand the case quickly and quickly input in financials for quantitative analysis. Overall questions were simple but biggest challenge is time-constraints and difficulties quickly comprehending the entire case.
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Data Science Intern Interview - Information Technology (IT)

Anonymous employee in Toronto
Interviewed: January 2023
Date Submitted: Jan 24, 2023
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
I had received the interview as a prize from winning a hackathon. The interview was 45 minutes long with 2 data scientists, with a 20 minute coding section consisting of a Leetcode question, and the rest of the time was for theory questions on various machine learning concepts. There were about 7-8 machine learning questions increasing in difficulty, while the coding question was relatively easy.
Interview Questions
There were some specific questions on machine learning techniques and how it would be applied in a real world problem, which I was unfamiliar with since I was a beginner in data science and machine learning.
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Summer Analyst Interview - Financial Institutions Group (FIG)

Anonymous employee in Toronto
Interviewed: March 2018
Date Submitted: May 10, 2021
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Other
Interview
Two different interviews; First interview pure behavioral questions, Second round interview required you to meet with different team mostly behavioral however there was a little bit of technical questions added in.
Interview Questions
When reviewing a university how would you assess the ability for that institution to pay back debt.
Sample Answer

Intern Interview - Financial Institutions Group (FIG)

Anonymous employee in Toronto
Interviewed: July 2015
Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2020
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
I applied through my university posting. Within a month, they reached out to me for an in person interview. There were two people from the company that interviewed me. It was only one round.
Interview Questions
Please list out all of our products and lines of service. This was a difficult one because I had not known that Manulife has so many products outside of insurance.
Sample Answer

Actuarial intern Interview - Risk

Anonymous interview candidate in Hong Kong
Interviewed: January 2019
Date Submitted: Oct 17, 2019
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Interview process consisted of both phone interview and a one on one interview.
Upon passing the phone interview, you proceed to 1 on 1.
Interview Questions
The interview was fairly basic. The phone interview was mainly to sift out applicants who had not read about the job description and were not that familiar with the role they were applying for.
The second 1 on 1 interview was more specific. They asked about exam progress and gave a few simple probability problems. They also asked about programming skills and about where you see your self in 5 or 10 years from now.
It was a pretty general process with no specific difficult or unexpected questions as such.
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Summer Intern Interview - Finance

Anonymous interview candidate in Toronto
Interviewed: February 2017
Date Submitted: Nov 18, 2018
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Applied online, received an email from HR looking to book an interview a week later. Phone interview was all behavioural and heavily stressed leadership skills.
Interview Questions
The most difficult part was how much they stressed leadership skills. After providing two solid examples of leadership the interviewer continued to ask for more. The goal was probably to see if I would end up making up a story,

There were also questions about VBA but they very basic questions to test if you were lying on the resume or not (could probably get what you need to know with a few videos on youtube). This series could probably teach you everything you need: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78GvLEAZecs.
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Investment Analyst Interview - Investment Research

Anonymous employee in Toronto
Interviewed: September 2015
Date Submitted: Mar 20, 2018
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Know market knowledge. They asked what country would you invest in/not invest. How would the political election affect the market?
Interview Questions
How election results impact the markets? There wasn't anything too hard as long as you read the news. Interviewers were nice. They like that you have a CFA. They asked the typical questions: walk me through your resume, why Manulife, why a rotation program. Be sure to make a good impression on everyone in the cocktail session - they all have a say in whether or not you get an offer. Don't spend too much time with any one individual. Talk to seniors too - they may have a larger impact on who gets an offer.
Sample Answer

Internal Wholesaler Interview - Sales

Anonymous interview candidate in Toronto
Interviewed: January 2018
Date Submitted: Feb 11, 2018
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Interview
contacted from one of the Directors through linked and had a brief telephone interview. Following that we had a 1 on 1 interview on the main office where we went over my CV and they asked general fit/personally questions. "what drives you?" , "how do you take/react to rejection?". After this was called back for a second group interview.
Interview Questions
The most difficult questions was asking how you reacted to being rejected and/or give examples of how you overcame a bad outcome from a past applications. I was also asked what drives you personally and professionally which i used as an opportunity to speak about my accomplishments in terms of entrepreneurship as well as my personal goals. Because i was an entrepreneur and had sold my previous business to pursue a career in financial services i was asked why i decided to leave my previous profession and what i was looking for in this new position.
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Financial Analyst Interview - Asset Management

Anonymous employee in Toronto
Interviewed: 2016
Date Submitted: Jun 13, 2017
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Background Check
Interview
I applied through my university's job portal. After being selected, I was interviewed by current employees, not HR.
Interview Questions
Interviewers asked behavioral questions, so none of it was unexpected or difficult. However, they went over my whole resume, so it is a great idea to be prepared in advance and to know resume completely. For example, for my leadership activities, I put down that I was a committee member of my faculty's student society, where I helped manage the finances, I was asked in great detail what I did and how proposals were approved. The interviewer also asked what happened after the plan was implemented.
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