Zais Group Interview Questions
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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.
- Very Easy
- Easy
- Average
- Difficult
- Very Difficult
Interviews at Zais Group
Interview Questions & Answers - Zais Group Examples
Summer Intern Interview - Structured Products
What is something a bond investor would dislike but a bond investor would like?
What are bonds?
What is the difference between Loan and Bonds?
Why would you purchase bonds?
What are Collateralized Bond Obligations, Asset Backed Securities, and Mortgage Backed Securities?
What is securitized finance?
Why ZAIS?
Why are you interested in finance?
Overall, the interview was not very difficult and they were very receptive to helping throughout the process. They help you through the questions.
Hedge Fund Research Analyst Interview - Investment Management
Data Analyst Intern Interview - Analytics
Talked about their basic definition, tranches, cash flow through the different tranches, interest/principal payments, etc.
Analyst Interview -
Soon I received the 1-to-1 interveiw notice. The man who interviewed me was the manager of the Shanghai Office. He again asked me about some experience in my resume. He also asked some behavioral questions like "Assume you are a leader of a team and one of your team member is not putting 100% of his effort into his work. Also he doesn't seem like caring too much about promotion or incentives of hard working. What do you do with him?" Then it was some basic numerical questions such as the result of 2^9. Not many technical questions were asked then.
However the manager who interviewed me was no longer in place, and the difficulty of the interviews are getting higher these days. Suitable candidates would be expected to answer technical questions in fixed income or derivatives. Post internships in banks or asset mgmt firms are also viewed to be an important factor. These days, interviews are organised in 2-3 rounds and decisions are made generally pretty quick.
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