Putnam Investments – Investment Associate
The following information has been provided by Babson students after recent on campus interviews.
Position: Investment Associate
Number of Interviewers: 1
Interviewers: Alumni, a junior executive, Corporate Bond analyst
Types of Questions:
- Behavioral: 82%
- Case: 73%
- Technical: 27%
How difficult was the interview:
- Easy: 27%
- Difficult: 9%
- It was okay: 55%
- Extremely Difficult: 9%
How friendly were your interviewers:
- Tough as nails: 9%
- Tough, but not bad: 19%
- Easy going: 36%
- Friendly: 36%
- We were total BFF:
Would you have liked there to have been an information session:
- Yes: 55%
- No: 11.1%
Did the Info session help in your interview:
- Yes: 11.1%
- No: 9%
What resources did you use to prepare for this interview:
- Vault guides: 64%
- Company website: 73%
- CCD website: 36%
- Career Connections: 45%
- Horn Library Resources: 27%
- Google: 55%
- Wikipedia: 9%
- Bloomberg:
- BIBA Prep Guide: 9%
After the interview, did you feel you had a better understanding of the position you were applying for:
- Yes: 64%
- No: 27%
After the Interview, how interested were you in the company:
- More interested: 27%
- Less interested: 27%
- Same: 36%
Did you have any prior contact with people from this organization:
- Career Fair: 45%
- Resume Critique Night:
- Info Session:
- Internship:
- Friend: 27%
- Alumni:
- Internet:
- Email: 9%
- Alum notifying Professor: 9%
What questions did you ask the interviewer:
- What do you think of the current economy?
- What sectors do you cover?
- What was your career path?
- What is the next step in the process?
- Is there anything that I did not cover that you want to know?
- Why did the interviewer choose this career path
- What are the strengths of the company compared to its competitors
- Next steps in the process
- About her position at the company
- What her experience has been at Putnam
- What in her Ugrad career prepared her for the job.
- What the average day was like for a person in that position.
General Comments:
Overall the interviewer (an analyst) seemed rather inexperienced in interviewing when asking me one sentence questions down my resume. She also seemed rather disinterested and wasn’t engaging. She seemed very disinterested in me and was difficult to connect with. I left feeling rather disenchanted with the firm.