Associate

This was through the normal on-campus recruiting. That said, we were escorted to a room where two professionals (1st and 2nd yr associates) asked a series of personality based and technical questions. I believe we had at best 2 personality questions and the rest were straight math related questions (it felt like a math exam). Not sure if they were screening for how well you explain the process (ie: walk them through the methodology) or speed or accuracy or all three (never received such feedback later) but I found it quite frustrating that I walked into a math exam and it felt as though everyone was judged based on the same criteria. Finally, asked a deal question and I felt confident with my math performance for the other questions but not sure if my response to the deal question was what broke the camel's back. The math used the building blocks that everyone studies but because there were multiple layers it made it more complicated (you couldn't even slow down to think about it). It was either you knew it or you didn't. The question now is, do others benefit from interviewing earlier in the day (ie: crowdsourcing information to have better results by the time you go for the actual interview).