Firstly, there is an online application which is very straight forward and easy to fill out. Shortly after submitting my online application, I received an email informing me to take their online assessment within 5 working days from receipt of the email. The assessment was fine and pretty much normal, not very different to many other banks. There are two types of questions in the assessment, ones about your personality and how you would react in certain scenarios as well as mathematical questions based on given sources. All questions follow videos in which they give a story, or lead onto the question. These types of untimed assessments always take me really long, but I managed to do well enough to progress onto the next stage. After completion, I received an invitation to complete an online interview. Now keeping in mind that I had done research on the interview and prepared answers, I still found the interview impossible. It turns out that it wasn't quite an interview, but more like a business assessment that involved video answers. I was given questions and sources, and I had to answer either by multiple choice, video answer, or type an answer. That is perfectly fine, but the sources and questions given were not something I could do as an undergraduate mathematics student, which seemed ridiculous to me, as it was too technical and something I'd expect to learn and understand on the graduate scheme itself. I understand that the role I applied to was highly numerate, however I am studying a mathematics degree with a few mathematical finance modules, yet I still couldn't answer any of the questions so I ended up rambling, making answers up and sounding like a complete idiot, since I didn't understand the questions or sources at all. I'm not sure if this is because there may have been a mistake, or whether other applicants are also getting the same 'interviews', but from what I could see, unless you already had experience as a graduate, or something of that level with knowledge, then it was impossible to answer. I haven't gotten an answer yet, I completed the stage at the end of September/beginning of October, but I'm 100% sure I failed and will not progress to the next stage. It's strange as I had also applied as an intern for summer 2017, but I had a completely different experience and the process wasn't at all impossible.