Financial Modeling Interview Questions

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- Tell me about your experience/knowledge in RMBS - What would you do if you promised your boss to complete a task today, but then you realized the task is much more difficult than you thought and you don't feel like you can make it today? - Brain teaser: "The Tower"
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Financial Modeling Aanayst

Interviewed at Moody's

3.8
Feb 18, 2015

- Tell me about your experience/knowledge in RMBS - What would you do if you promised your boss to complete a task today, but then you realized the task is much more difficult than you thought and you don't feel like you can make it today? - Brain teaser: "The Tower"

They first asked some questions around the data analysis I had to present at the beginning of the interview (that I had 6 days to prepare the presentation). Then they went to competency based questions, mainly around people management and project/time management. Lastly the focus was around technical knowledge relevant to the role (types of models, regulations that I know of that impact the credit risk space, their impact).
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Financial Risk Modeling Manager

Interviewed at Coventry Building Society

3
Apr 6, 2016

They first asked some questions around the data analysis I had to present at the beginning of the interview (that I had 6 days to prepare the presentation). Then they went to competency based questions, mainly around people management and project/time management. Lastly the focus was around technical knowledge relevant to the role (types of models, regulations that I know of that impact the credit risk space, their impact).

questions asked: 1) Introduce yourself 2) told me about blackrock 3) rate yourself on the scale of 10 4) explain encapsulation, abstraction 5) diff between struct and class 6) do we have interfaces in C++, how can we apply them 7) virtual functions,pure virtual functions. 8) runtime and compile time polymorphism 9) stack , list,set, hashmap 10) sql
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C++ Developer In Financial Modeling Part

Interviewed at BlackRock

3.8
Sep 2, 2013

questions asked: 1) Introduce yourself 2) told me about blackrock 3) rate yourself on the scale of 10 4) explain encapsulation, abstraction 5) diff between struct and class 6) do we have interfaces in C++, how can we apply them 7) virtual functions,pure virtual functions. 8) runtime and compile time polymorphism 9) stack , list,set, hashmap 10) sql

I was given an algorithmic question: A array of n integers write an algo that tells if it exists (i,j) in A so that A[i]+A[j]=k (k a given integer) I think they are expecting real hard coders to do the work. I was not asked any brainteaser, probability questions etc....
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Financial Modeling Analyst

Interviewed at BlackRock

3.8
Feb 14, 2015

I was given an algorithmic question: A array of n integers write an algo that tells if it exists (i,j) in A so that A[i]+A[j]=k (k a given integer) I think they are expecting real hard coders to do the work. I was not asked any brainteaser, probability questions etc....

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