Spark Investment Management Interview Questions
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The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more insights, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire data set.
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Interview Questions & Answers - Spark Investment Management Examples
Strategist Interview - Other
There is virtually no information about the company online except for forum postings asking about the company and one line in Alpha magazine stating that Peter Laventhol, the first employee of DE Shaw, founded Spark.
Interview was completely behavioral, with ~20 minutes of standard questions (tell me about yourself, explain a difficult decision you had to make as a leader, etc.) This followed with ~10 minutes of myself asking the recruiter questions about the company/interview process.
The company is small ~20-30 people, and interviews with every employee would be required before an offer was extended.
Unfortunately, the recruiter was not responsive to any queries before or after the interview, and only sent a stock rejection letter ~6 weeks after the interview (was told during the interview a response would given within 3 weeks).
**As the interview is completely behavioral with standard questions, it's perhaps the most important to have a strong response to this initial basic question to set the tone for the rest of the interview**
**There is no information about this company online besides speculative forum posts and the entry level compensation. Thus probing questions demonstrating interest in the company and passion for the position may be a requirement for continuing on to later round interviews**
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