I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at State Street (Montreal, QC) in Mar 2017
Interview
There was 3 interviews (1 by phone and the other 2 in person, in the office)
1st: Phone interview
2nd: General questions to know more about the candidate (me).
3rd: They asked questions to know how i would handle situations and to know morr about my personality.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Today you are responsible for the formatiin of an intern, at the same time a client calls because he's mad and he's about to teminate his contract with the company. Also you get a call saying that the company is 6 months late on their bills (it is your responsability). What would you do?
The interview process was fairly smooth. not many technical questions, mostly behavioral. overall the interview process wasn't too bad and difficult as i expected it was going to be. There was no technical hard questions only behavioral questions.
Straight forward 2 round interviews. Usual HR screening and Skills interview. Passed it fairly easily. Recommend doing some skills interview practice. Give as much as practical experience examples with Star approach.
The first stage is a phone interview with HR in English.
Next, a meeting with managers is scheduled. The meeting takes place online, and typical investment banking questions are asked like what is fund, forex ...
Fund Accountant applicants have rated the interview process at State Street with 2.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 57% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Fund Accountant roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 108 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at State Street overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at State Street as a Fund Accountant according to 108 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 28%
One on one interview: 23%
Group panel interview: 14%
Background check: 14%
Presentation: 6%
Drug test: 5%
Skills test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Personality test: 2%
Other: 0%
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