State Street Associate Interview Questions
& Process
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and how the experience turned out.
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State Street
Senior Associate
Mid Average Positive experience Accept offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Technical screen Recruiter call
Interview formats
Coding Technical Behavioral
I interviewed for a role on the AI Team at State Street about two years ago. It had three parts: first, an online assessment with MCQs on aptitude, data structures, and programming, plus two coding problems. Then, a technical interview mainly about my resume and AI/ML concepts like past projects, ML algorithms, model optimization, and real-world AI uses, plus some coding questions. Lastly, a quick HR call about my background, goals, and company fit.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you explain activation functions in neural networks, and why is ReLU a common choice?
State Street
Associate
Entry Easy Negative experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Recruiter call
Interview formats
Behavioral
Phone interview with HR. While the questions were pretty straight forward to answer, HR was extremely unprofessional being more than 40 min late to our phone called and calling only when it was sent an email, background noise was extreme due to children making it hard to concentrate for me and for them, while I could not hear the questions. The person also was constantly muting making it extremely awkward as they also had signal issues making my experience negative and not sure whether she even heard what I was saying. While flexibility for employees is great state street is too great to give candidates such experiences and not having processes to ensure this is not the image that is passed to candidates by HR.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you tell me about your current responsibilities?
State Street
Senior Associate
Senior Easy Positive experience Accept offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Onsite
Interview formats
Behavioral
The interview process was simple and the people were friendly. The interview questions were easy, only behavioral questions like introducing yourself. There were only 2 rounds of interviews, one with HR and one with managers. I received an offer in one week.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Can you introduce yourself?
- What made you apply for this position?
State Street Associate Interview Questions
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“Can you explain activation functions in neural networks, and why is ReLU a common choice?”
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Read report →“Do you find State Street to be a fairly good company to work for?”
Read report →“Would you be interested in the officer position rather than the senior associate role?”
Read report →“Does the company give opportunity to people who have been through career break for any personal reasons?”
Read report →“Are the interview questions not that difficult here, are they your standard interview set?”
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