Wells Fargo Quantitative Analyst Interview
Hi, I’m interviewing at WF for their Quant Analyst position. I’m fairly nervous about this and Glassdoor/Google are not helpful. What should I prepare for? I’ve been reviewing ML and Stats heavily. TC: PhD student (25k)
Is wellsfargo good pay?
Seems one of the higher-paying among banks (compared to us bank, etc). Great for LCOL US cities from my experience. No RSUs, sign on bonus, or big tech money. I think they just increased pay recently though. Seems most of that praise has been from the last year or so.
Is Wells Fargo a decent place to work? They have so many jobs in my area - but I’ve heard a lot about toxic culture.
Whats ur phd? As a fellow phd I think starting ur career at a bank like bofa or wellsfargo is a mistake.
My PhD is in Statistics. I'm a US citizen and I applied to every tech company with zero results. The only interviews I have received have been Capital One, Fidelity and Wells Fargo. I have 2 years of experience at Qualtrics well and still nothing. Wells seemed very reasonable to me.
Big ego PhD syndrome. Once u failed few interviews u need to take a step back and practice more, leetcode for tech or all sort of interview prep book for quant roles.
Quantitative Analyst is fairly generic. Is it a risk quant or a pricing quant position?
Risk
What type of risk? Credit risk, market risk, model risk/validation?
Can't speak to that discipline but take some time to fill out one of those STAR interview question tables that help you build stories for the behavioral side. I got surprised during mine when the manager cared more about a specific part of the STAR answer where I could have been more descriptive. WF was bigger on that format than any others I'd had. Got that suggestion from the Glassdoor interview questions and it was bang on. Consider it likely to be 25-50% of your focus here if yours goes like mine went. I didn't have a code test but also joined a platform team. Full dev teams are a bit different I believe (based on Glassdoor).
Thank you, this a excellent advice!
STAR type are for behavior question, right? When I interviewed I was asked more about specific past project. I wonder how they evaluate you if only behavior questions asked for a tech or quant related role?