I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at BlackRock (London, England) in Jan 2015
Interview
I applied in November, heard back at the end of January. The video interview was overal a good experience. There was around 1.30min given to prepare and 2-3 min to answer. It is more than in other video interviews I did.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
4 questions. Not difficult; behavioural type. Make sure you know a lot about the firm.
I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at BlackRock (London, England) in Mar 2016
Interview
I applied online in October of 2015 and 2 months later received an invite to a recorded interview with HireVue. It was very straight forward and only asked 4 questions which where basically personality questions. I had 30 seconds to prepare and a minute to speak. Following that, 3 months later I received an invite to a 1st interview online which was Live Interview whereby I had two 30 minute interviews. The first surrounded competency & financial questions with a young lady who was kind and the second interview was full blown interrogation. It was horrible, the man who interviewed me seemed to have no interest in anything I had to say. He started off stating "we will run through your CV" and completely went off to questions surrounding the financial markets that I didn't revise for. It was complete interrogation and It was disrespectful the lack of interest he had in my responses. To be honest now, I'm not bothered whether I get the interview or not. It would not bother me if I get rejected and would rather be a relief to not have to go through another interview with them again. I have yet to hear back.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How is the current financial climate?
Explain to me what's going on with china at the moment?
How would you describe a bond?
How do you keep up to date with the financial markets?
Describe to me a time you where innovative?
Why Blackrock?
Why this role?
What is your weakness?
Describe to me a time you where challenged?
What interests you about BlackRock?