Moodys Corporation Interview Questions
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.
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- Very Positive
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.
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- Difficult
- Very Difficult
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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Interview Questions & Answers - Moodys Corporation Examples
Ratings and Research Support Intern Interview
Financial analyst Interview - Generalist
technical questions
related to bs, is, cfs, how they are connected.
is it better to raise debt equity or cash
Associate Analyst Interview - Analytics
Was declined as I failed to answer the programming questions and I did not come from a programming background. I was also caught off-guard by statistics questions as I did not think the job was overly technical and therefore did not prepare extensively for it. One of the interviewer drilled me on unnecessary questions, such as asking for the valuation multiples of an industry I covered in an internship 2 years ago.
Overall, the interview felt impersonal but I still liked some of the interviewers nonetheless.
2. What is an appropriate IRR return range and valuation multiple of the software industry?
3. You realized a mistake in the presentation that your boss prepared and you were the only one about to give presentation to the client. Your boss is uncontactable. How would you approach this issue?
4. Detailed questions on my prior work experience and the company.
5. Why are you looking to switch after 6 months on the job?
Moody's Associate Analyst 3 - Project Finance Interview - Utilities
All of the interviews (including the phone interview) were not behavioral - most of the conversation was about project finance and utilities. They were definitely looking for someone with a lot of accounting background. Many accounting / financial statements questions. Know your statements in detail. Also many questions about the utility industry.
2. What are some non-cash items on the cash flow statement?
3. If you were to evaluate an airport for a rating, what items/categories would you look at?
4. What are some major components of an airport?
5. How would you evaluate local highways, or bridges for quality ratings?
6. Which methodology did you find most interesting and why?
7. Talk about the importance of the income statement and describe in detail.
Associate Analyst III Interview
Super day was 2 separate interviews with 2 people each. Again very pleasant and mostly behavioral.
I asked what industry (they said any industry but said you can use consumer product) then asked;
Revenue - What's the quality of the revenue? ie how likely are previous years clients staying with you?
Costs- How are margins? Operating leverage? What one time costs might affect your ability to pay back debt?
Debt- Whats your debt issuance going forward? How can you mitigate one time costs against your debt profile?
Associate Analyst Interview - Debt Capital Markets
First round with HR, more on motivations and behavioural (eg teamwork, multiple deadlines etc)
Second round was a mix. But mainly focused on what I had done. Did a few pitches on the companies I covered and follow up questions ensued. Was sharing my view on some sectors too.
Third round was a case and follow up interview - Was given financials of company, main task was finding business drivers and credit issues. Writing management meeting questions in mandarin. Calculate amount of debt.
Communications Interview
2. How do you deal with internal clients. I was asked for examples of challenging situations so I explained that communicating is important.
3. What do you think we could do better. I gave some recommendations on their website.
Moody's Associate Analyst Interview
Some maths problems. Not very easy, but a little different from we normally learned in the class. But you can still work out possible solutions.
Questions about SQL.
Kinds of questions about the resume and the related work experiences. Very detailed.
In all, the mathematics questions are hard to solve, and I become a little nervous when faced with such questions.
It seems you need some programming skills, like Python and SQL. A medium level SQL question.
Associate Analyst Interview - Generalist
Some difficult parts were the group interviews. I was interviewed by senior people from different lines of business 1 on 1 and also 1 on 2.
I was also asked about my excel skills. I responded that I was an expert in excel (was in college, so didn't know better) and interviewer shot me down saying that no one is an expert on anything. I corrected myself by saying fairly competent in excel.
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