Bridgewater Interview - Investment Engineer

I was recently contacted by Bridgewater that I got invited to a phone interview for their Investment Engineer position. It will be in a couple of weeks.

I heard that some people go straight to final round but I'm guessing that they wanna make sure I'm actually smart since I go to a top school in the midwest (one of Northwestern, WashU in St. Louis, Notre Dame) instead of a typical Ivy League School they recruit from.

Has anyone done this? I'm aware of the typical final round interview from my research but not sure about what a phone interview would be like.

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