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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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at State Street (Boston, MA) in Aug 2009
Interview
A friend of mine referred me and soon after applying I had a phone interview. It was very basic, they were just trying to see if you were a normal person. Questions like, what do you know about mutual funds, accounting, etc. They called me back within a couple days, and I went in and met with a manager. The interview lasted abour 40 minutes and consisted of standard questions such as strengths, how would you handle a situation in which a client or customer was angry, what kind of accounting classes I took. It was a little bit of traditional and behavioral mixed together. It was a very pleasant interview, no really difficult questions. It flowed well, and I left with a good feeling. They called me back within the week and offered me the position.
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 ...