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CDPQ interview questions

27 questions researched across 1 CDPQ seat in Investment Management. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Investment AnalystInvestment Management · graduate · 30 min

12 CDPQ interview questions

  1. What discount rate would you use for a regulated utility, and why?

  2. Why did you choose this particular role at CDPQ, and not a different team here?

  3. What do you know about finance and investments so far, and where did you learn it?

  4. Tell me about a task in a previous job or internship that you really struggled with. What did you do?

  5. Pick the skill you think matters most for this job, and give me a concrete example of when you used it.

  6. We value open debate here. Tell me about a time you disagreed with someone's analysis and how you handled it.

  7. Walk me through an LBO. What are the main levers that drive the equity return?

  8. CDPQ says it integrates sustainable investing into its decisions. How would you put climate risk into the underwriting of a long-life asset, concretely?

  9. Walk me through how you would value an infrastructure asset.

  10. Tell us about a decision you made that only paid off later.

  11. Pitch me an asset you would hold for twenty years, and say what would make you sell.

  12. How do you think about currency risk on a foreign private asset?

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.
Technical5 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.
Case1 of 12 above
Clarify the objective; build a mutually exclusive structure; prioritize the highest-value branch; analyze with evidence; synthesize a recommendation, risks, and next step.

15 more CDPQ questions

The rest of the bank — 27 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 CDPQ 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 CDPQ round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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