Bridgewater Associates Bewerbung: Fragen im Vorstellungsgespräch

Bewerbung

Ich habe mich online beworben. Vorstellungsgespräch absolviert bei Bridgewater Associates.

Vorstellungsgespräch

Phone interview with 2 people lasted about 30 mins. They were nice but serious and maybe a bit uptight (and I've even been in the financial services industry my whole career). The interview was good in that I got the opportunity to understand their vibe, and I'm sure they understood my vibe.

Bewerbung

Ich habe mich auf anderem Weg beworben. Vorstellungsgespräch absolviert bei Bridgewater Associates (Westport, CT (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)).

Vorstellungsgespräch

Quick phone screening the people who was "interviewing" me was very professional and funny and made me follow the company. He described what it was like working for Bridgewater and how it's hard buttery rewarding. One of the better interviews I ever had.

Vorstellungsgespräch

Recruited via my university's career fair, interviewed near my college campus. Several rounds of philosophical interviews, dissecting moral and ethical questions and probing my ability to respond to 'devil's advocate'-esque challenges to points that I made.

Bewerbung

Ich habe mich online beworben. Der Vorgang dauerte mehr als 1 Woche. Vorstellungsgespräch absolviert im Oktober 2019 bei Bridgewater Associates (Westport, CT (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)).

Vorstellungsgespräch

She asked me to go over my resume and then she introduced their culture. After that, she asked why there is a match. I talked about my skill sets. Then she mentioned the function of this job.

Bewerbung

Ich habe mich über einen Personalvermittler beworben. Der Vorgang dauerte mehr als 2 Monate. Vorstellungsgespräch absolviert im Oktober 2019 bei Bridgewater Associates.

Vorstellungsgespräch

Easy & Unique interview process. Very time consuming but worth learning about their corporate culture.
From surface it seem to be a great culture but people I interacted with wasn't very open to new ideas nor aware of latest technology trends. Reason for rejection give was absurd. Despite owning multiple patents in the devops area, they rejected saying they want someone with more in-depth knowledge. Interviewees were some fresh off of college kid w/ very short term experience.
Culture is very good fit for order takers but not for innovators.

Bewerbung

Ich habe mich auf Empfehlung eines Mitarbeiters beworben. Der Vorgang dauerte eine Woche. Vorstellungsgespräch absolviert im September 2019 bei Bridgewater Associates (Boston, MA (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)).

Vorstellungsgespräch

Very strange interview process. Before I interviewed I filled out various personality tests. I was then interviewed in a WeWork in my school's city. The first round was a group interview with 6 or so other applicants and two Bridgewater employees. The second round was a 2 on 1 interview with two Bridgewater employees. Both rounds were centered around philosophical topics and were essentially debates/discussions with no technical or personal components.

Vorstellungsgespräch

Took a hacker rank coding challenge. The hacker rank coding challenge is allocated a duration of hours equivalent to 2 weeks but does not necessarily require the whole two weeks to be solved, i.e. can be completed in the less than the completed time.

Bewerbung

Ich habe mich über eine Hochschule oder Universität beworben. Vorstellungsgespräch absolviert im August 2019 bei Bridgewater Associates (Westport, CT (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)).

Vorstellungsgespräch

They put 8 students in a room and had them debate each other. They clearly only had their eyes on a few kids though. My group had multiple candidates that refused to engage with the conversation out of shyness, so it was a painful half hour.

Bewerbung

Der Vorgang dauerte eine Woche. Vorstellungsgespräch absolviert bei Bridgewater Associates.

Vorstellungsgespräch

I was contacted by a recruiter from the company after applying online via Indeed. All the online discussions from past employees noted that the company atmosphere was very 'cult-like', intense and abnormal. All of which were confirmed in my first call with the recruiter when the first sentence out of their mouth asked for permission to record our conversation, as all their conversation at the company were recorded. We then discussed what I'm looking for in a new position, my experience and expected salary.

Next step involved an online coding challenge via HackerRank. The challenge instructions noted that you would be given a choice between two difficult problems and you were to attempt only one. You would be allotted a total time of 10 hours! to complete the problem you chose. They expect the challenge to take 'a few hours to complete' but you are also advised to not spend an 'inordinate ' amount of time completing it. I'm not sure how long they expect you to work on the problem, given that they acknowledge that it should take 'a few hours' and time limit is 10 hours long....

Every sensible person completing the challenge would more than likely make use of an IDE to debug and solve the problem. Only copying the solution over to the online IDE when they verified it worked locally. However, the online IDE appears to lock the default imports without allowing you to modify them, thus resulting in me spending 20-30 minutes trying to solve various compilation issues resulting from naming collisions in the default imports and classes I chose to import...

Got a 1 sentence response from a recruiter about 1 week later letting me know my skills weren't a match for the position.

Advice: This company seems extremely strange and abnormal, I would advise people who don't like to belong to a cult like atmosphere to run....

Vorstellungsgespräch

It's a long slog but the people are all lovely. Very forthcoming; when they say complete honesty and transparency it's not just a slogan - it's a way of being. Very thoughtful probing questions.