I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at PIMCO (Los Angeles, CA) in Sep 2022
Interview
9 interviews; very holistic. get to speak with everyone on the team and members from other teams you are expected to work with. Whole process took about 4 months from start to finish
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you think about the current market sentiment?
Bin noch mittendrin.. aber dauert sehr lang bis wann man zurueck hoert. Die erste Runde musst du HireVue machen, indem du dich selber aufnimmst. Dann kommt eine Runde Mit HR.
Telefoninterview, technisch mit typischen fixed income Fragen nach duration, Zinskurve, Verschiebungen, Markteinschätzung, spreads, PIMCO Produkte und Fokus, Marktverständnis. Insgesamt angenehm aber fordernd mit wenig Zeit für Fragen, anschließend folgt der super day
Before the interview, HR rescheduled twice saying the recruiter was just unavailable so it needed to be rescheduled with another recruiter. During the interview, the second recruiter appeared clearly uninterested from the beginning, asked questions in an interrogation manner, challenged my answers about my own experience, completely missed the focus of my background in certain areas and smirked when she thought she successfully tricked me. Totally unprofessional. I absolutely doubt if she could capture candidates’ profiles accurately for hiring managers to screen. Do not recommend applying to this company.