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BlackRock interview questions

120 questions researched across 6 BlackRock seats in Investments, Client Business, Aladdin / Engineering. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Investment AnalystInvestments · graduate · 30 min
  • AnalystClient Business · graduate · 30 min
  • Summer AnalystInvestments · intern · 20 min
  • Aladdin Engineering InternAladdin / Engineering · intern · 20 min
  • Investment Operations InternInvestment Operations · intern · 20 min
  • Risk InternRisk & Quantitative Analysis · intern · 20 min

12 BlackRock interview questions

  1. What's a market development you're following right now, and how do you think it affects BlackRock and its clients?

  2. Explain duration, and what it tells you about a bond's price when yields move.

  3. Walk me through everything that affects a bond's price.

  4. Pitch me a country or an industry sector you think has potential over the next 12 months.

  5. Why would a company choose to IPO?

  6. Tell me about a time you had to convince someone more senior than you.

  7. What's your biggest failure, and what did you change because of it?

  8. Tell me about something that isn't on your CV.

  9. And what do you do for fun outside of work and markets?

  10. How do you keep up with the markets day to day — what do you read, and what's one thing you learned this week?

  11. What drives you?

  12. How do you incorporate technology in your life — and how do you think technology is changing how clients choose investment products?

What a strong answer does

The questions above fall into 3 kinds. What a strong answer does differs by kind, not by question.

Behavioral6 of 12 above
Lead with the claim and context; isolate your personal action and decision; explain the trade-off; quantify the result; finish with what you learned and changed.
Market3 of 12 above
State a view; support it with evidence and a catalyst; explain valuation or transmission; give the strongest countercase; name the risk that would change your mind.
Technical3 of 12 above
State the intuition first; walk through the mechanics; make assumptions explicit; test a risk or edge case; connect the answer to the role.

108 more BlackRock questions

The rest of the bank — 120 in total — is asked by the interviewer during practice, so you meet them the way you would on the day rather than reading them first.

Practise BlackRock questions

How these questions were researched

Every question carries a provenance grade. Some were reported by candidates who sat the round, some come from the firm’s own published guidance or a source that trains for it, and the rest are written to match how this firm asks. Each seat is studied on its own — the round it actually runs, the order it runs it in, and what it is listening for. A BlackRock round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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