I applied online. I interviewed at Validus Risk Management (London, England) in Apr 2026
Interview
Interview call after submitting application. From the beginning the interviewer was rude and condescending. (I have applied for hundreds of different jobs.) It says all I need to know about a company if they are combative and disrespectful on a call, when I’m the talent they’re fighting for! I was asked what I was passionate about and following my answer, which I obviously adjusted slightly to the job brief as every candidate would, I was accused of using Ai to produce an answer just because I spoke technically. Maybe the interviewer wasn’t as intellectually or academically astute as me I am not sure. He then proceeded to tell me I had ‘one last chance to be honest’ about my passions because, and I quote, ‘when he was my age he wouldn’t have cared about business operations at all’. I left the call completely confused that maybe this was some sort of twisted test of resilience, but turns out it wasn’t. It was a power trip. Hope this review has enough passion in it for them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are capital markets
What are you passionate about