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Product Consultant at Capital IQ
No Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON Apr 2013 – Reviewed May 13, 2013 New
Interview Details I applied through university recruiting as the posting was done on my school's recruitment portal. The application was standard with a cover letter and resume included. After 3 weeks, I received a response that I was invited to interview in Toronto. I went for 2 interviews which lasted 35 minutes each. These interviews were very informal and allowed me to get to know the team I would be working with. After this, there was a week delay until my interview with the people from head office in New York. Again, I went to Toronto for a 30 minute interview this time. After about 3 weeks of no news, I e-mailed the first employee who contacted me for information and they got back to me after that.
Interview Question – You might be asked to sell something to the interviewers. View Answer
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Product Consultant at Capital IQ
No Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON Jun 2012 – Reviewed Oct 16, 2012
Interview Details
2 half hour interviews focused on behavioral questions
- Tell us about yourself? Walk me through your resume?
- What is Capital IQ and what do you expect to do in this role?
- What motivates you
Interview Question – Why do you want this "sales" related position? View Answer
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Intern at Capital IQ
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on New York, NY (US) Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 26, 2013
Interview Details Applied online, had two phone screens and an onsite interview
Interview Questions
- There was one question on designing a class/set of classes which help to find the stock quote for a particular company. A method was provided which takes a sticker(String) as an input and gives the stock value(double). But this method was too expensive to call, so how would you optimize your solution(make the minimal number of calls to this method). Also the stock value returned should not be more than an hour old. There were subparts to this question, on caching the values and multithreading. Answer Question
- Given a tree and a value n, check if the sum of values on any path of the tree from root to a leaf equals to that value. Answer Question
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Business Analyst at Capital IQ
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY (US) Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 12, 2013
Interview Details
I submitted my résumé through campus career fair, then received an email about a week later for an on-campus technical interview. The technical interview has a 30 minutes test on "Redesign the current [company financial filings] website" with some guidelines and requirements. And then it's another 30 minutes with the interviewer about the test, how you arrived to your answers, and about your résumé and experiences.
A week later, during the spring break, I received an email from HR inviting me to attend their Super Day - four 30 minutes 1:1 interviews with BAs, they will ask questions they have encountered during their real projects. You don't need to have the perfect, correct answer, but you are expected to ask a lot of questions.
Overall a pleasant experience with Capital IQ, and I'm still waiting for my final results, hope I can get the internship :)
Interview Question – Redesign the current [company financial filings] website, with a QA test plan. Answer Question
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Research Associate at Capital IQ
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New Delhi (India) – Reviewed Feb 20, 2013
Interview Details Interview and hiring process was well managed
Negotiation Details – No issues faced
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Database Engineer at Capital IQ
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Dec 2011 – Reviewed Feb 19, 2013
Interview Details
My first interview consisted of a 30 minute written test which included queries to answer.
There was a C program to write to check if a string is palindrome or not. Be well prepared with joins in case of queries. They also asked to create an ER diagram of a database schema.
Interview Question – Be prepared with sql queries. Answer Question
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Data Analyst at Capital IQ
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Hyderābād (India) Dec 2011 – Reviewed Feb 16, 2013
Interview Details there would be 3 rounds. its cool
Interview Question – no such difficult questions.. but they negotiate the salaries a lot Answer Question
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Research Associate at Capital IQ
No Offer – Interviewed in Gurgaon, Haryana (India) Jan 2013 – Reviewed Jan 31, 2013
Interview Details 2 rounds test and then HR round.. very very simple
Interview Question – very basic concepts of M&A View Answer
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Product Consultant at Capital IQ
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on New York, NY (US) Dec 2011 – Reviewed Feb 01, 2013
Interview Details I came in as an experienced hire, so my interview process was a bit different. Basically, it was sitting with three different people (a VP, an associate and my boss) and just talking about why I wanted the position and my strengths with customer service. Very easy interview- they need people so as long as you have a pulse you should be okay.
Interview Question – Basically having to sit there while the VP bashed my previous place of employment. I, being a professional (unlike half the people at the company), did not join in on the bashing. Still not sure if that was a test or if the VP is that immature. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Flat offer. No negotiation. At the end of the day, you are a pawn in a conglomerate- they don't care about you. It used to be that Capital IQ was an agile, small time software company. The company has gone to the dogs.
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Research Associate at Capital IQ
No Offer – Interviewed in Delhi (India) Nov 2012 – Reviewed Jan 31, 2013
Interview Details
1. Aptitude Test
2. HR interview
3. Technical written
4. Manager level Interview
5. Director level interview
Interview Question – Elaborate Hedge funds in detail View Answer
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