I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at FactSet (London, England) in Jun 2015
Interview
Applied on their website, and received an e-mail from them after 2 weeks that they would like to proceed the process. Got invite to complete 3 online tests - numerical (personally I think the test is very easy, requires you to know some basic maths), financial (you do need to have some financial knowledge - markets, indexes) and excel (which just did not work properly, I think I could not answer a couple of questions just because the system did not allow me to - at that moment I thought I have failed it). But in a week they emailed me again and told that would like to give me one more excel test at a pre-arranged time and I needed to complete it in 30 mins and send it back to them. The test wasn't very difficult but you need to how some functions work.
In a couple of days got an invitation for a google chat interview.
Questions about motivation, why Factset, about competitors and what differentiates them.
I think it is very important to know the difference between IM, IB and PE.
3 Step process
Initial screening with HR
First in person interview with Senior Consultant which involved a round table discussion with other candidates and a presentation on your topic of choice. Third interview is a one on one with two senior consultants.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you know about Factset?
Basic Finance questions
What is Factsets share price?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at FactSet (London, England) in Dec 2019
Interview
First Step was a video interview, questions were pretty straightforward. The second step was an assessment centre day in their offices. Two technical tests, a microsoft excel test and a trial of their Fact Set platform (received tutorial on the day)
Invited to HR video interview after completing the online application and two online tests (numerical and financial)
Video interview was pretty straightforward, half of it was talking about yourself and your experience (CV), other half was testing your knowledge on FactSet.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Difference between Investment Management, Investment Banking, and Fixed Income
Graduate Consultant applicants have rated the interview process at FactSet with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Graduate Consultant roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 13 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at FactSet overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at FactSet as a Graduate Consultant according to 13 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 36%
One on one interview: 29%
Phone interview: 14%
Group panel interview: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Presentation: 7%
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