Financial Engineer Intern applicants have rated the interview process at MSCI with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Financial Engineer Intern roles take an average of 42 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at MSCI overall takes an average of 28 days.
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Typical quant finance questions, it is possible to prepare for them. Also some behavioral interviews if you pass the first few rounds. All together 4-5 rounds of interviews. People are nice usually
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you have 10 black and 10 white balls, how can you organize them into 2 buckets such that you maximize the probability of taking a black from both?
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at MSCI (Budapest)
Interview
First round is a HR briefing over the phone. Then you have to take a Hacker Rank test. After that there is a 60 minutes big interview. Then they assign a programming problem for you that you have a whole day to solve. Then you have to present your solution, roughly one hour. After these steps they let you know if you are hired.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Motivation. Technical details about your work. Two little math problems.