BlackRock Financial Modeling Group interview questions
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Financial Modeling Group applicants have rated the interview process at BlackRock with 3.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Financial Modeling Group roles take an average of 6 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at BlackRock overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at BlackRock as a Financial Modeling Group according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 71%
Phone interview: 14%
Group panel interview: 14%
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Interviewed at BlackRock in December 2014. 2 seperate interviews - one technical (maths, probability, brainteasers) and one behavioural, both interviewers very friendly. Questions:
Tell me something about the markets, covariance of a linear combination of random variables, duration, convexity, how do you calculate the moments of a normal variable, where do you see yourself in 4-5 years time.
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A brainteaser about the greedy pirates and their gold described already by others.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at BlackRock (New York, NY) in Sep 2013
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I got this opportunity from OCR. Nice manager and friendly process. Questions are from easy to difficult step by step. Questions include option pricing and programming. He will make it more difficult if you can answer until you can't to test your limit, I guess. One question asked me to write a piece of code for something, then to make improvement.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at BlackRock (New York, NY) in Oct 2013
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Had an on-campus interview first then was invited to NYC for the superday. 6 back-to-back 30 minutes technical interviews on site. Interview questions consist of coding, Java&C++ concept, math and brain teaser. Math related programming questions are really tricky. All the interviewers seems to be very knowledgeable. Great experience.
Questions that I can remember are
How BST works and implement it.
Write a memory leak in C++. How to avoid memory leak? How smart pointer works?
DP stairs question. write a function to calculate e^x (x is double).
Write function to calculate sqrt of x
Implement first in first out Cache
convert big Endian to little Endian
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Write a function to calculate e^x, need to convert e^x to 1 + x + x2/2! + x3/3! + x4/4! + x5/5! + x6/6! + x7/7! + x8/8! + x9/9! + x10/10! + x11/11!+ ...