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Product Consultant at Capital IQ

Accepted Offer – Reviewed Dec 02, 2012

Interview Details I met representatives of the company at a university career fair, then had an on-campus interview and a day consisting of four interviews at the office in New York. Questions were mostly focused on my personal experience, with a few questions relating to the attributes of the company as a whole.

Interview Question – How well are you able to deal with angry clients and bosses as well as personal failures?   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – No negotiation. The offer was very standardized and there was essentially no flexibility.

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Research Associate at Capital IQ

No Offer – Reviewed Nov 26, 2012

Interview Details i reached phase 3.
the questions revolve around shares and stocks and other financial basics.
i was asked:
name few indian companies?
why do u say they are indian?
what is index?
what is CDS?
why capital IQ?
i answered all of them correct and my interview went quite well but they selected just 1 candidate out of 6.
but reaching phase 3 is also not an easy task. all the best to all the aspirants.

Interview Question – what is CDS?   Answer Question

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Product Consultant at Capital IQ

No Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON (Canada) Jun 2012 – Reviewed Oct 16, 2012

Interview Details 2 half hour interviews focused on behavioral questions
- Tell us about yourself? Walk me through your resume?
- What is Capital IQ and what do you expect to do in this role?
- What motivates you

Interview Question – Why do you want this "sales" related position?   View Answer

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Business Analyst at Capital IQ

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY (US) – Reviewed Oct 11, 2012

Interview Details First round was a design test that included qa testing questions and erd. Second round included 3 interviews where design questions were asked

Interview Question – Walk through a website and redesign it   Answer Question

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Database Engineer Intern at Capital IQ

No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY (US) – Reviewed Oct 11, 2012

Interview Details Sent resume through college recuirting, and got an interview invitation on campus. First round was given 30 minutes to finish a test, and spent another 30 minutes to go through your answer with one of their employees.
Second round was on-site. There were three 1:1 interviews, all technical questions about Database. Not too hard.
Waited for another 3 or 4 weeks, got a call from HR telling me I didn't get the offer.

Interview Question – One weird question was about "How to buy data".   Answer Question

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Business Analyst at Capital IQ

Accepted Offer – Reviewed Oct 01, 2012

Interview Details There is a initial aptitude test consisting of 4 sections answering the first one is compulsary as it test your quantitative aptitude the next section depends on the postion u apply for ...
SE - codes and outputs
DBA - sql queries and other realted questions
BA - everyday life situations ....
generic . - write a problem solving experince

The Interviews were three rounds 1 on campus and 2 in the company
they consisted mostly of everyday situations ... he projects u are part of and your introduction
and other activities u are involved in ...also they will give u use cases to solve and UI's to design ..

Interview Question – Start a company that can compete with google ...   Answer Question

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Software Engineer at Capital IQ

No Offer – Interviewed in College Park, MD (US) Feb 2011 – Reviewed Sep 29, 2012

Interview Details I applied to Capital IQ through my university's career fair. Then I was given an on-campus interview. The first half of the interview was a skills test. The recruiter walked in, handed me the test, and gave me 30 minutes to complete. It consisted of 5 technical questions pertaining to data structures and bit manipulation.

Interview Question – Given a tree, create a function for a getting a sub-tree given P and K.   Answer Question

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Software Developer at Capital IQ

Accepted Offer – Reviewed Sep 18, 2012

Interview Details Talked to Capital IQ recruiter coming to career fair on my college and I dropped off my resume. Later I was invited to the in person interview held in my college. I was pretty surprised when I walked in and get a 5-6 pages of coding/database questions, which I have to write down the answer just like a CS class midterm. I didn't finish it and in the end the recruiter went over all the questions with me.
After that first interview, I was invited to the final interview in new york office. Talked to a few developers and over all the process went well and smoothly.

Interview Question – Questions are basic coding / database. Nothing really difficult if you prepared well.   Answer Question

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Research Manager at Capital IQ

Accepted Offer – Reviewed Sep 14, 2012

Interview Details interview process was very technical. They asked a lot of questions pertaining to financial statement analysis. I would recommend reviewing basic financial statement analysis.

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Software Engineer at Capital IQ

No Offer – Reviewed Sep 14, 2012

Interview Details At first I spoke to HR, very brusk. Asking about past experience, expected pay, what technologies I was most comfertable with. Then I had a phone interview with team lead. Very friendly, looking for lots of questions. Scheduled a technical interview. Basic array manipulation and algorythms questions. Said they were not sure I was a good fit yet but that they looked forward to heering from me in the future with more experience under my belt.

Interview Question – In an nxn grid of ones and zeros, turn all squares in a manhattan distance of k from any 1 into 1s, yielding an algorythm of complexity O(n2).   Answer Question

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