Vanguard
- 19
- questions
- 5
- stages
How the process runsTypical for a large diversified asset manager
- 1ApplicationTypicalLarge classes across investment, client, risk, and technology teams. Your team choice matters.
- 2Online assessmentTypicalOnline tests and a recorded video step are common at the largest managers.
- 3First roundTypicalInterviews on your story, why the firm, markets, and how products such as index funds and ETFs work.
- 4Final roundTypicalSeveral interviews across teams, often a markets discussion and a case or short presentation.
- 5OfferTypicalUsually within days of the final round.
Timing between stages shows on each program page once students report it. Firms change formats by year and office; the firm's own invite is the final word.
What it tends to weighTypical of a large diversified asset manager
- How index funds, ETFs, and active strategies fit together on one platform.
- Clients: pension funds, insurers, advisers, and individuals, and what each one needs.
- Risk and portfolio construction as much as picking securities.
- behavioral
- 6 questions
- markets
- 7 questions
- technicals
- 6 questions
The Vanguard set is Pro
19 questions, 4 written for Vanguard, run as a drill with a 80% pass mark.
Topic drill sets stay free, one a day.
7 days of Pro. No card, nothing to cancel.