Candidates applying for Spring Insight Week roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at BlackRock overall takes an average of 48 days.
Common stages of the interview process at BlackRock as a Spring Insight Week according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
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Pretty simple, just the basic fit and motivation questions, like why blackrock, why the division, team situations - conflict, good times, data to solve problem, and commercial awareness questions asking whats going on in the markets and a piece of news you found interesting.
I interviewed at BlackRock (London Colney, England)
Interview
2 stages of interviews after hirevue stage. Round 1 interview was mainly behavioural asking questions like what would you do if you have a conflicting deadline etc. 2nd round interview was more technical and tested commercial awareness
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Tell me about a recent event in the financial markets that caught your interest and why?
I applied online. I interviewed at BlackRock (London, England) in Jan 2026
Interview
3 x 30 min interviews on Zoom, all one on one, the first one was very situational, tell me about a time etc. The second one was similar but using specifically my CV. And then the last was an associate talking about his job, and wanted me to stop him and ask him any questions on anything he found interesting, and then I told him about myself and he asked questions about that (like follow up ones).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time where you made a mistake, what did you learn from it?