I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Point72 in June 2018
Interview
IQ Test + a Video interview question. Not Difficult. IQ is a easy but time crunched so move quick. You get video question in advance so its not difficult. It seems as if they prefer people with quant background.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Disruption and talk about industry or company which changed to face disruption.
The interview consists of a written assessment, a case study and 2 to 3 interviews. One interview will be about the case study, another will be about the fit to them firm and there will also be interviews with the academy coach
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Point72 (New York, NY) in July 2024
Interview
First round is a case study - long or short research report / pitch. Second round is with HR and almost entirely behavioral. Final round is with the head of the Academy program and basically entirely technical - will grill you on your pitch and drivers of the stock price.
7 rounds - thirteen technical questions that I absolutely just guessed because I had decent finance knowledge and did it. Otherwise its not too bad and you need to know a lot about markets, case study, FMV modelling, and other stuff
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me about a topic you researched and talk about it for the rest of the interview if you can essentially