Standard & Poor's: Interview & Hiring Surveys

Standard & Poor's Interview Surveys Standard & Poor's Workplace Surveys Standard & Poor's Salary Surveys Standard & Poor's Business Outlook Surveys Title of position interviewed for: Stock Analyst Approximate date of interview: 1/2003 Location: New York, NY Submitted on: 11-Jan-05 Job Title Interview Survey Stock Analyst Unlike other Wall St. firms, where personal connections help to open the recruitment door, the hiring process is very impersonal: most applicants are chosen from resumes received from Internet postings. Those chosen are then required to sit for a day-long in-house exam during which they write a stock report based upon information provided. Those that pass this exam are then invited back for a two- hour round of three or four interviews, including most department managers. Questions generally revolve around current market happenings as well as two or three stock recommendations from the applicant that he or she then "pitches" to the interviewer. References are then checked and an offer made. New hires are then placed into a short formal training session that gravitates more towards the quirks of writing in the "S&P style", the editorial process, and the in-house publishing systems. Placements out of training are done without much notice, generally to replace analysts who resign. New analysts can be assigned up to 25-35 companies in an unfamiliar industry and are expected to publish research and cover earnings as soon as the stocks are assigned. Standard & Poor's Interview Surveys Standard & Poor's Workplace Surveys Standard & Poor's Salary Surveys Standard & Poor's Business Outlook Surveys Vault Employee Surveys: Read insider employee surveys to get the inside scoop on hiring and working at top employers. We have 55625 surveys for 5288 employers.