Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Bridgewater Associates (Westport, CT)
Colloquio
Applied online and received an offer to interview a few days later.
Interview lasted from 8 AM to 3 PM. Began with videos about Bridgewater's culture and then went on to have one life interview with an associate and then had an intense hour long conversation with two investment associates. Had a group interview after that with 5 other really qualified candidates.
Make sure you're able to come up with really solid logical arguments and be able to support everything you say, everyone who did well was extremely good at debating and arguing.
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If you could genetically modify your children? Would you and with what conditions?
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto un giorno. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Bridgewater Associates (Washington, DC) nel mese di ott 2021
Colloquio
The first round interview essentially consists of the interviewer meeting with a group of about 4 candidates. They give you one question and you all discuss it for about an hour. The interviewer will let the interview progress naturally and see how candidates interact with each other, and then add a new twist into it to see how you all respond.
The question had nothing at all to do with finance.
I didn't get invited for a second-round and was never given a reason, but I'd say I walked away feeling like I was given a fair shot. They seem to place a lot of emphasis on testing what's under the hood.
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If you could press a button to go back to 1940, before nuclear weapons were invented, would you press it - bearing in mind that if you did humanity would never technologically advance past its current point?
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Bridgewater Associates
Colloquio
There's a group discussion and then a one on one (or a two on one).
Minimal focus on actual finance (they believe they'll have to re-teach everything anyway), so the discussions are about broader socio-political or sometimes ethical questions. Focus is on the ability to systematically explain your thinking ("what's your framework?")
Having a super clear reasoning tree is helpful.
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They actually let interviewees suggest their own questions sometimes.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Bridgewater Associates
Colloquio
Multiple rounds of debate-like moral and philosophical questions and a smattering of resume and behavioral questions. Mainly to test decision-making abilities and your overall argumentative skills rather than in-depth knowledge of finance or current affairs.
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Domanda 1
How to invest a certain amount of money from a government perspctive