Candidatei-me online. Fui entrevistado pela FactSet (Londres, Inglaterra) em nov. de 2024
Entrevista
1st interview very casual - Hardly Star questions 30 min interview
The Talent Acquisition Specialist is super lovely and prioritised more on asking about who you are and how you see yourself in the firm. Genuinely invoking on insightful conversation about values and aspirations. Basic touch-ups on knowledge about the firm (come up with a solid explanation) but also really highlight yourself in a achievement, personality or an experience that really brings you value and purpose that you think the firm can also expose you to or enhance. Focus on values and motivations here. The TA will also give very great detail on career progression plans and overall culture making it super engaging, insightful and a comfortable discussion.
The 2nd interview - excel test + demo 1.5 hours
This part you will instruct the interviewer, senior consultant, through their shared screen how to answer the excel questions so bear in mind the quality may not be super clear to see every detail.
Familiarise yourself with the syntax - you will have 20 mins to answer 8 questions and can use excel on your end to verify how to do something first however it’s not a lot of time to experiment. Be familiar of locking cells (F4) and understanding how to rectify mistakes in your explanation like missing a ‘comma’ ‘bracket/parentheses’ . Even though your instructions might have not been perfect initially showing that you can quickly rectify problems will add to your overall quick thinking and problem solving skills. Bonus points if you can find unconventional ways or multiple ways to do an answer like for a question that you may use V-Lookup show them you can use another function like Index-Match as well/instead. [Other functions may include If function V lookup Ranking
Concatenate Financial formula (simple multiplications) or sum-product,Sum, Upper, If Average - pivot table.
Third Interview, with two seniors [Associate Director/Manager] you will have to present a 10 min presentation from any topic like AI, ESG. You will get asked more Motivation/Technical/Competency - research more into FactSet products/news, learn financial terms and definitions e.g: bonds, buy-side, sell-side, Name a time where you have worked through a problem. This is more STAR professional questions about your career experience. [Refer to other financial terms in other reviews for better preparation].
Candidatei-me online. O processo levou 3 semanas. Fui entrevistado pela FactSet (Hong Kong) em abr. de 2026
Entrevista
Apply on the official website and afterwards receive email about hackerrank assessment, which is fairly easy with ample timing. When you pass the test, then HR will schedule 10~15 min phone screening ask basic intro question, also ask expected salary and will explicitly tell you the max including bonus. Then 1st round interview with junior staff with roleplay (just focus on the video shown and make sure to be friendly) and typical behavioral question. If successful, then go onto 2nd round with vp level and might be asked in a language specified in a role to see if the applicant is proficient. Not too hard interview if you research about the role and company well. Overall positive experience w/ quick turnaround for each round, not keep you waited unless rejected
Candidatei-me online. Fiz uma entrevista na empresa FactSet (Singapura).
Entrevista
Total of 3 rounds in total. Was an okay experience and did not get back feedback at the end. Interviewers were friendly and impressionable. The process itself was quite fast.
Candidatei-me online. Fui entrevistado pela FactSet em dez. de 2025
Entrevista
1st round was hr screening, mainly behavioural questions to get to know you, plus at least 1 technical q (finance related), mine was “what is a green bond”. nothing too crazy but def revise core finance concepts.
2nd round was about 2 hrs. first hour was a technical excel task — interviewer shared her screen and i had to work through everything live. mostly basic formulas (if, round etc) but make sure you know the top 15–20 excel formulas and how they apply in a finance context (think valuations, analyst-type tasks, modelling logic), they’re basically mimicking what they do day to day.
second hourr was more behavioural. this part really depends on who interviews you, so worth checking linkedin and doing a bit of prep around their background/team.
final stage — had to prep a short presentation on a topic of choice. do proper research and try to link your topic back to their products/platform. don’t just focus on the obvious stuff (e.g. ai), understand the broader product suite and how diff clients would use it.
after the presentation there was another motivational/behavioural round, but more scenario-based — like “imagine a client says xyz, what would you do?”. they’re testing how you’d think if you were already in the role.
they’ll def ask where you see yourself in 5 yrs — avoid the generic “leadership” answer. be specific and realistic.
last round was 3–4 interviewers, so comms + presentation skills matter a lot. they’ll notice if you’re nervous or waffling.
heard back with an offer about 1.5 weeks after final round. overall pretty positive experience and good support throughout.
top tip: build a good relationship with your recruiter — makes it much easier to ask questions as you go.
all the best 👍
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Tell me about yourself
What is a green bond
Have you ever taught something to a friend and family, if so what could you have done better
