I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Mizuho Financial Group (London, England) in Oct 2010
Interview
technical interview. I was asked to do 3 papers, 1 maths, 1 finance and 1 coding. Maths comes from S.Shreve's book, solve SDE. Finance was mainly about different kinds of bonds and rate derivatives. Coding was not about coding but focused on compiling...THE hardest interview I have ever had...