4 interviews:
1) Director - Technical Questions: What does the confidence interval means and discuss a small case
2) HR - behavioral: Why Fideres? Why Economic Consulting? Why do you change your career now?
3) Head (fit and technical)
4) Head (fit and technical)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technicals: Econometrics and explain things in a easy way
Behavioral: Explain why you want the position and the company
The process had three stages: an initial CV and cover letter screen, a technical case study sent as a take-home with around a week to complete,
and two rounds of video interviews with senior economists covering the case write-up, technical questions on econometrics and market microstructure, and motivational fit. End to end it took roughly five weeks.
They have an online assessment which includes data cleaning and analysis to be done in 1 hr 30 mins. Even though the questions are simple, the competition is really high
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Two csv files will be given and will be asked to make a plot and comment on it