I applied through university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Roubini Global Economics (New York, NY) in Feb 2016
Interview
A phone interview from an analyst at NY office for about 20 mins. We basically went through my resume and asked some simple economics questions. One week later, I received an update to have an onsite interview at NY office. This is about half an hour. They wanted hire only one person for the internship.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
For the first round, we just went through resume and some simple questions about how interest rate will be affected by some incidents.
For the onsite interview, I was interviewing with two analysts at NY office and one economist at London office who called over the phone. I was asked a lot about quantitative modeling like how to deal with panel data and how to predict GDP.
I applied online. I interviewed at Roubini Global Economics
Interview
Pretty standard initial proess, talk about Economics and you should be fine
They basically went through my CV, asking about things and asking about my degree. It was my first ever interview and basically just completely disastrous, I stuttered my way through.
This was followed by a question about Economics. He asked me why is inflation low in Europe (at the time Europe was just entering deflation). This was the part that I did really well in. I took him through the exact reasons, I was really articulate here and showed that I knew my stuff.
I got through because of my economics knowledge but was rejected at the excel test
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Roubini Global Economics
Interview
pretty easy, regular questions about coursework and working experience. The interviewer hopes you have available skills that are ready to use, there's no a specific training session here, but your supervisor will always guide your through it if you need any help.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's your experience with economic software, like STATA, R, EView and others.