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Candidate-reported interview insights

Aberdeen Interview Questions

Explore commonly reported questions, interview rounds, difficulty, duration, and candidate experiences at Aberdeen.

3.2 rating Investment & Asset Management

Interview overview

Difficulty

Average

Average rounds

2.5

Difficulty and candidate experience

Interview difficulty

easy21.8%
average66.5%
difficult11.8%

Candidate experience

positive63.1%
negative13.7%
neutral23.2%

Candidate-reported interview process

The recruitment process was straightforward. The HR team was helpful and kept me informed throughout. I made it to the last stage, where it was down to me and one other candidate. Ultimately, I didn't get the internship.

The recruiter chat was good, and the hiring manager chat was also good. However, the technical interview round was really strange. The interviewers were hyper-focused on random aspects of my last role instead of assessing my full experience and skillset. It felt like a trivia game, asking me to remember the exact implementation of a tiny feature from years ago. It just seemed like they only wanted engineers with the exact same tech stack experience as them, like they were gatekeeping.

I was contacted by two different recruiters about setting up an interview. The interview itself was pretty laid-back and informal, mostly just talking. I didn't get the job, and they didn't give much useful feedback afterward. It was kind of weird that the recruitment team asked me on the phone how I thought the interview went before they told me I didn't get it.

Common Aberdeen interview questions

A focused selection of the most detailed candidate-submitted questions.

  1. 1

    What experience do you bring to the role?

  2. 2

    What do you know about Standard Life?

  3. 3

    What do you know about our company?

  4. 4

    Tell me about your past experience.

Interview question formats

Behavioral45%
Technical22.1%
Presentation12.4%
Group7.5%
Case6.4%

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Interview information is based on candidate reports and may not represent the current official hiring process of Aberdeen.