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华尔街这个岗位录取难度是哈佛大学的12倍

华尔街这个岗位录取难度是哈佛大学的12倍

Luisa Beltran 2023-08-25
黑石集团一直以招聘最优秀的人才而闻名。

黑石集团联合创始人及首席执行官苏世民,摄于2019年9月。图片来源:DAVID “DEE” DELGADO—BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES

对于应届毕业生而言,华尔街最让人梦寐以求的岗位是黑石集团(Blackstone)的分析师。这个岗位的竞争非常激烈。有无数人在这个岗位上开创了自己的事业,包括黑石集团的总裁兼首席运营官乔恩·格雷,预计他将是黑石集团联合创始人及首席执行官苏世民(Stephen Schwarzman)的接班人。

苏世民在7月20日召开的讨论公司第二季度营收的电话会议上表示,今年黑石集团有169个初级分析师岗位,但收到了62,000份求职申请。他指出,这相当于录用率不到0.3%,意味着在黑石集团得到一个初级岗位的难度,是被哈佛大学(Harvard University)录取的12倍。苏世民在电话会议上说:“我怀疑放到今天我是否会被录用;也不确定这是否是好事。”

黑石集团的分析师是一个全职初级岗位。黑石集团的一位发言人凯特·霍尔德内斯称,公司的大部分投资分析师都是刚毕业的大学生。她补充道:“我们也会面向有一定经验的求职者提供分析师岗位。”

黑石集团成立于1985年,是最早的私募股权公司之一,其他早期的私募股权公司还包括凯雷投资集团(Carlyle Group)、KKR、阿波罗全球管理公司(Apollo Global Management)和德太投资(TPG)等竞争对手。如今,这些公司的业务都已经不再局限于私募股权,而是自称另类资产管理公司或投资公司。黑石集团目前投资的领域包括房地产、基础设施、信贷、增长基金和私募股权等。截至2022年12月31日,黑石集团共有近4,700名员工。黑石集团是规模最大的另类资产管理公司,也是第一家管理资产规模超过1万亿美元的公司。

多年来,黑石集团一直以仅招聘最优秀的人才而闻名,即从哈佛大学或耶鲁大学(Yale University)等常春藤盟校(Ivy League)毕业的优等生。这种情况目前已经有所改变。黑石集团的全球人力资源总监佩奇·罗斯表示,科技帮助黑石集团扩大了招聘范围。2015年,黑石集团的现场招聘政策,意味着其仅从九所学校进行招聘。罗斯称,目前,该公司通过现场招聘和虚拟招聘相结合的混合招聘策略,与1,000多所学校合作,包括传统黑人高校。

私募股权行业一直被批评缺乏多样性。据Preqin的《2023年另类资产管理公司的女性》(Women in Alternatives 2023)报告显示,在另类资产管理公司的初级岗位里,女性占32.5%,其中包括私募股权、对冲基金和风险投资公司,但女性仅担任13.6%的高层岗位。与许多公司一样,黑石集团多年来一直在努力拓宽其招聘和雇佣渠道。该公司通过未来女性领导者(Future Women Leaders)和多元化领导者(Diverse Leaders)等项目,从大学二年级开始与来自弱势群体的学生建立关系。霍尔德内斯指出,2023年,黑石集团43%的全球分析师是女性,59%的美国分析师来自不同族裔。

罗斯对《财富》杂志表示:“我们会拓展到以前从未到达的地方,例如我们会从每一所学校进行招聘。我们能够到任何一所学校,联系任何一名希望申请我们的工作岗位的学生。”

罗斯称,平均学分绩点(GPA)当然很重要,在招聘过程中扮演着重要角色,但黑石集团寻找的是优秀的多面手。她表示,黑石集团更看重在学校活动或运动队里担任领导职务的求职者。罗斯还说:“我们从根本上认为投资和商业就是一种团队运动。”

黑石集团招聘的人才可能来自不同专业,而不是只局限于金融和数学专业。罗斯称:“有些被录用者是英语专业。”黑石集团以其交易能力而著称,但该公司也会为其非投资岗位招聘分析师,包括会计、传播和技术等岗位。

知名度最高的黑石集团前分析师格雷,毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学(University of Pennsylvania)。[格雷从宾夕法尼亚大学取得了两个学位:沃顿商学院(Wharton School)的经济学理学学士学位和艺术与科学学院(College of Arts and Sciences)的英语专业文学硕士学位。]据他的LinkedIn资料显示,他于1992年加入黑石集团担任私募股权/并购分析师,整个职业生涯都在该公司度过。一年后,格雷被调任至房地产部门,2005年担任黑石集团的房地产部门负责人。2018年,格雷被任命为黑石集团的总裁兼首席运营官,并且被普遍认为将是苏世民的接班人。

黑石集团通常不会通过猎头招聘分析师。霍尔德内斯表示,分析师岗位的申请期限从秋季开始。求职者可以前往黑石集团的官网,并发送个人简历。罗斯说:“求职信非常重要,但真正具有决定性作用的是个人简历。”黑石集团的网站显示,在纽约从事数据科学分析师第一年的薪酬是100,000美元至110,000美元。分析师通常还能够领到一笔年度奖金。

黑石集团并未披露分析师需要经过多少轮面试。但被录用的求职者首先需要接受人力资源部的面试,之后由其申请的部门高管进行面试。黑石集团还采用了基于游戏的招聘工具Pymetrics,通过人工智能来衡量求职者的风险承受能力、公平性和注意力持续时间等品质。

要想成为黑石集团的分析师,最简单的方法是成为暑假实习生。罗斯表示,为期10周的实习期是黑石集团招聘全职分析师的主要来源。实习申请期限为1月至3月。罗斯称,她的团队通常会询问黑石集团的每个业务部门在特定年份需要多少实习生。她说:“这将决定实习生的数量。”罗斯表示,实习岗位同样竞争激烈。

霍尔德内斯指出,黑石集团的实习期通常是在大学一年级和四年级之间的暑假。她建议,这意味着学生应该在大学二年级开始申请。在专业方面,罗斯表示这取决于学生申请实习的部门。她说:“公司各部门都有暑假分析师岗位,并不局限于投资岗位。”

黑石集团的暑假实习生有权在8月获得全职岗位入职邀请,可以从次年开始入职。比如,如果一名学生在2023年8月完成了实习并获得了一个全职岗位的入职要求,他们就能够在2024年暑假开始在黑石集团工作。霍尔德内斯称,任何没有被实习生填补的全职岗位,将于8月在黑石集团的官网上对外发布。(目前黑石集团的职业发展网站上有多个实习岗位,但只有少数全职分析师岗位。)

黑石集团的分析师需要经过严格的面试过程。一位黑石集团的前分析师表示,他们在一周内完成了13轮面试,包括其申请的岗位所在团队的负责人和高级总经理的面试。这位黑石集团的前分析师在纽约市的一所高校攻读经济学专业,平均学分绩点为3.8。这位前分析师称,他们被提问了与市场形势有关的问题,被要求解决没有明确解决方案的道德问题,并被要求回答与两个研究案例有关的问题。这位前分析师甚至向高管提供了一份演示文稿,其中包括Excel模拟。这位前分析师回忆道,面试过程的高潮是中午的集体午餐,面试官在午餐过程中判断每一位求职者能否良好地适应公司环境。

这位前分析师说:“这个过程令人精疲力尽……我为面试准备的时间都超过了面试持续的时间。”

这位前分析师指出,黑石集团希望了解求职者是否对市场和经济有基本了解,衡量求职者解决问题的能力,以及他们口头展示自己的能力。这位前分析师回忆称,在准备面试的过程中,他阅读了《华尔街日报》(Wall Street Journal)、彭博社(Bloomberg)、华尔街绿洲(Wall Street Oasis)和Reddit等媒体的文章。这位前分析师表示,求职者应该了解全世界以及他们所在行业的现状。

与大多数华尔街的投资者一样,黑石集团的员工已经恢复现场办公。黑石集团的许多员工的工作时间从每天上午8:30和9点开始,直到完成当天的工作才会结束。(这位前分析师表示,如果上司没有离开,黑石集团的员工就会工作到晚上9点,如果上司不在办公室,员工通常就会在下午5点至6点下班。)罗斯称,黑石集团的员工不会按照固定的时间下班。她说:“我们录用的都是非常优秀和专业的人才,我们要求他们自行判断。”

以下是通过黑石集团面试的一些小建议:

1. 准时参加面试。虽然黑石集团不会因为你迟到而对你抱有成见,但迟到并非好事。罗斯表示。

2. 善于团队合作。黑石集团看重的是与人为善并且知道如何与他人合作的人才。求职者如果可以说出自己在球队或俱乐部中的经历和曾经在其中担任的领导岗位,通常在面试里就会有更好的结果。而只强调个人成绩(例如“我曾经做过某某事,我赢得了某某奖项)的求职者,往往难有满意的结果。

3. 寄感谢信,而且一定要拼对高管的姓名。虽然能够发送电子邮件,但罗斯称她的职业生涯中收到过10多份手写感谢信,并且非常感谢每个写信的人。她说:“我再也没有收到[手写感谢信]。如果可以收到一份手写感谢信,我就会想:‘哦,太棒了。’”

4. 推荐人对于高级岗位招聘更重要,但对分析师岗位并不重要。

5. 在面试时,求职者应该做好在回答问题时自我介绍的准备。罗斯表示她经常会问的一个问题是:“用一个例子介绍你在哪方面有所欠缺。你如何解决这个问题,你从中学到了什么?”

另外一个可能遇到的问题是:“你会给更年轻的自己什么建议?”

6. 在回答问题时,求职者应该避免指责他人。黑石集团将把其他人“推入火坑”视为危险信号。

7. 一定要检查简历里的拼写和语法错误。黑石集团的前分析师表示,公司通常会把有错误的简历丢在一旁。

8. 准备面试不只是在坐地铁去面试的途中阅读一些显而易见的话题。在接受特定团队面试时,要了解这个团队的工作内容,并准备合理的问题。

9. 更新LinkedIn的个人简介,并保证其正确性。

10. 仔细检查,确保你的社交媒体已经设置为非公开状态和/或是干净的。(财富中文网)

译者:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

对于应届毕业生而言,华尔街最让人梦寐以求的岗位是黑石集团(Blackstone)的分析师。这个岗位的竞争非常激烈。有无数人在这个岗位上开创了自己的事业,包括黑石集团的总裁兼首席运营官乔恩·格雷,预计他将是黑石集团联合创始人及首席执行官苏世民(Stephen Schwarzman)的接班人。

苏世民在7月20日召开的讨论公司第二季度营收的电话会议上表示,今年黑石集团有169个初级分析师岗位,但收到了62,000份求职申请。他指出,这相当于录用率不到0.3%,意味着在黑石集团得到一个初级岗位的难度,是被哈佛大学(Harvard University)录取的12倍。苏世民在电话会议上说:“我怀疑放到今天我是否会被录用;也不确定这是否是好事。”

黑石集团的分析师是一个全职初级岗位。黑石集团的一位发言人凯特·霍尔德内斯称,公司的大部分投资分析师都是刚毕业的大学生。她补充道:“我们也会面向有一定经验的求职者提供分析师岗位。”

黑石集团成立于1985年,是最早的私募股权公司之一,其他早期的私募股权公司还包括凯雷投资集团(Carlyle Group)、KKR、阿波罗全球管理公司(Apollo Global Management)和德太投资(TPG)等竞争对手。如今,这些公司的业务都已经不再局限于私募股权,而是自称另类资产管理公司或投资公司。黑石集团目前投资的领域包括房地产、基础设施、信贷、增长基金和私募股权等。截至2022年12月31日,黑石集团共有近4,700名员工。黑石集团是规模最大的另类资产管理公司,也是第一家管理资产规模超过1万亿美元的公司。

多年来,黑石集团一直以仅招聘最优秀的人才而闻名,即从哈佛大学或耶鲁大学(Yale University)等常春藤盟校(Ivy League)毕业的优等生。这种情况目前已经有所改变。黑石集团的全球人力资源总监佩奇·罗斯表示,科技帮助黑石集团扩大了招聘范围。2015年,黑石集团的现场招聘政策,意味着其仅从九所学校进行招聘。罗斯称,目前,该公司通过现场招聘和虚拟招聘相结合的混合招聘策略,与1,000多所学校合作,包括传统黑人高校。

私募股权行业一直被批评缺乏多样性。据Preqin的《2023年另类资产管理公司的女性》(Women in Alternatives 2023)报告显示,在另类资产管理公司的初级岗位里,女性占32.5%,其中包括私募股权、对冲基金和风险投资公司,但女性仅担任13.6%的高层岗位。与许多公司一样,黑石集团多年来一直在努力拓宽其招聘和雇佣渠道。该公司通过未来女性领导者(Future Women Leaders)和多元化领导者(Diverse Leaders)等项目,从大学二年级开始与来自弱势群体的学生建立关系。霍尔德内斯指出,2023年,黑石集团43%的全球分析师是女性,59%的美国分析师来自不同族裔。

罗斯对《财富》杂志表示:“我们会拓展到以前从未到达的地方,例如我们会从每一所学校进行招聘。我们能够到任何一所学校,联系任何一名希望申请我们的工作岗位的学生。”

罗斯称,平均学分绩点(GPA)当然很重要,在招聘过程中扮演着重要角色,但黑石集团寻找的是优秀的多面手。她表示,黑石集团更看重在学校活动或运动队里担任领导职务的求职者。罗斯还说:“我们从根本上认为投资和商业就是一种团队运动。”

黑石集团招聘的人才可能来自不同专业,而不是只局限于金融和数学专业。罗斯称:“有些被录用者是英语专业。”黑石集团以其交易能力而著称,但该公司也会为其非投资岗位招聘分析师,包括会计、传播和技术等岗位。

知名度最高的黑石集团前分析师格雷,毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学(University of Pennsylvania)。[格雷从宾夕法尼亚大学取得了两个学位:沃顿商学院(Wharton School)的经济学理学学士学位和艺术与科学学院(College of Arts and Sciences)的英语专业文学硕士学位。]据他的LinkedIn资料显示,他于1992年加入黑石集团担任私募股权/并购分析师,整个职业生涯都在该公司度过。一年后,格雷被调任至房地产部门,2005年担任黑石集团的房地产部门负责人。2018年,格雷被任命为黑石集团的总裁兼首席运营官,并且被普遍认为将是苏世民的接班人。

黑石集团通常不会通过猎头招聘分析师。霍尔德内斯表示,分析师岗位的申请期限从秋季开始。求职者可以前往黑石集团的官网,并发送个人简历。罗斯说:“求职信非常重要,但真正具有决定性作用的是个人简历。”黑石集团的网站显示,在纽约从事数据科学分析师第一年的薪酬是100,000美元至110,000美元。分析师通常还能够领到一笔年度奖金。

黑石集团并未披露分析师需要经过多少轮面试。但被录用的求职者首先需要接受人力资源部的面试,之后由其申请的部门高管进行面试。黑石集团还采用了基于游戏的招聘工具Pymetrics,通过人工智能来衡量求职者的风险承受能力、公平性和注意力持续时间等品质。

要想成为黑石集团的分析师,最简单的方法是成为暑假实习生。罗斯表示,为期10周的实习期是黑石集团招聘全职分析师的主要来源。实习申请期限为1月至3月。罗斯称,她的团队通常会询问黑石集团的每个业务部门在特定年份需要多少实习生。她说:“这将决定实习生的数量。”罗斯表示,实习岗位同样竞争激烈。

霍尔德内斯指出,黑石集团的实习期通常是在大学一年级和四年级之间的暑假。她建议,这意味着学生应该在大学二年级开始申请。在专业方面,罗斯表示这取决于学生申请实习的部门。她说:“公司各部门都有暑假分析师岗位,并不局限于投资岗位。”

黑石集团的暑假实习生有权在8月获得全职岗位入职邀请,可以从次年开始入职。比如,如果一名学生在2023年8月完成了实习并获得了一个全职岗位的入职要求,他们就能够在2024年暑假开始在黑石集团工作。霍尔德内斯称,任何没有被实习生填补的全职岗位,将于8月在黑石集团的官网上对外发布。(目前黑石集团的职业发展网站上有多个实习岗位,但只有少数全职分析师岗位。)

黑石集团的分析师需要经过严格的面试过程。一位黑石集团的前分析师表示,他们在一周内完成了13轮面试,包括其申请的岗位所在团队的负责人和高级总经理的面试。这位黑石集团的前分析师在纽约市的一所高校攻读经济学专业,平均学分绩点为3.8。这位前分析师称,他们被提问了与市场形势有关的问题,被要求解决没有明确解决方案的道德问题,并被要求回答与两个研究案例有关的问题。这位前分析师甚至向高管提供了一份演示文稿,其中包括Excel模拟。这位前分析师回忆道,面试过程的高潮是中午的集体午餐,面试官在午餐过程中判断每一位求职者能否良好地适应公司环境。

这位前分析师说:“这个过程令人精疲力尽……我为面试准备的时间都超过了面试持续的时间。”

这位前分析师指出,黑石集团希望了解求职者是否对市场和经济有基本了解,衡量求职者解决问题的能力,以及他们口头展示自己的能力。这位前分析师回忆称,在准备面试的过程中,他阅读了《华尔街日报》(Wall Street Journal)、彭博社(Bloomberg)、华尔街绿洲(Wall Street Oasis)和Reddit等媒体的文章。这位前分析师表示,求职者应该了解全世界以及他们所在行业的现状。

与大多数华尔街的投资者一样,黑石集团的员工已经恢复现场办公。黑石集团的许多员工的工作时间从每天上午8:30和9点开始,直到完成当天的工作才会结束。(这位前分析师表示,如果上司没有离开,黑石集团的员工就会工作到晚上9点,如果上司不在办公室,员工通常就会在下午5点至6点下班。)罗斯称,黑石集团的员工不会按照固定的时间下班。她说:“我们录用的都是非常优秀和专业的人才,我们要求他们自行判断。”

以下是通过黑石集团面试的一些小建议:

1. 准时参加面试。虽然黑石集团不会因为你迟到而对你抱有成见,但迟到并非好事。罗斯表示。

2. 善于团队合作。黑石集团看重的是与人为善并且知道如何与他人合作的人才。求职者如果可以说出自己在球队或俱乐部中的经历和曾经在其中担任的领导岗位,通常在面试里就会有更好的结果。而只强调个人成绩(例如“我曾经做过某某事,我赢得了某某奖项)的求职者,往往难有满意的结果。

3. 寄感谢信,而且一定要拼对高管的姓名。虽然能够发送电子邮件,但罗斯称她的职业生涯中收到过10多份手写感谢信,并且非常感谢每个写信的人。她说:“我再也没有收到[手写感谢信]。如果可以收到一份手写感谢信,我就会想:‘哦,太棒了。’”

4. 推荐人对于高级岗位招聘更重要,但对分析师岗位并不重要。

5. 在面试时,求职者应该做好在回答问题时自我介绍的准备。罗斯表示她经常会问的一个问题是:“用一个例子介绍你在哪方面有所欠缺。你如何解决这个问题,你从中学到了什么?”

另外一个可能遇到的问题是:“你会给更年轻的自己什么建议?”

6. 在回答问题时,求职者应该避免指责他人。黑石集团将把其他人“推入火坑”视为危险信号。

7. 一定要检查简历里的拼写和语法错误。黑石集团的前分析师表示,公司通常会把有错误的简历丢在一旁。

8. 准备面试不只是在坐地铁去面试的途中阅读一些显而易见的话题。在接受特定团队面试时,要了解这个团队的工作内容,并准备合理的问题。

9. 更新LinkedIn的个人简介,并保证其正确性。

10. 仔细检查,确保你的社交媒体已经设置为非公开状态和/或是干净的。(财富中文网)

译者:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

For recent college graduates, one of the most coveted jobs on Wall Street is the Blackstone analyst role. Competition is fierce for a position that has helped launch countless careers, including that of Jon Gray, Blackstone’s president and chief operating officer, the executive who is expected to take the reins from cofounder and CEO Stephen Schwarzman.

This year, Blackstone had 169 first-year analyst positions available and received applications from 62,000 candidates worldwide, Schwarzman said during a July 20 conference call to discuss BX’s second quarter earnings. This translates to a selection rate of less than 0.3% and means that getting an entry-level job at Blackstone is 12 times as tough as getting accepted to Harvard, Schwarzman noted. “I doubt I would be able to be hired today; not sure that’s a great thing,” he said during the call.

The Blackstone analyst role is a full-time, entry-level position. The majority of Blackstone’s investment analysts are hired fresh out of college, said Kate Holderness, a Blackstone spokeswoman. “We also have analyst opportunities for people with some experience,” she added.

Founded in 1985, Blackstone is one of the original private equity firms, a list that includes rivals such as the Carlyle Group, KKR, Apollo Global Management, and TPG. All of these firms have expanded beyond private equity and now call themselves alternative asset managers or investment firms. Blackstone currently invests in real estate, infrastructure, credit, and growth, as well as PE. It employed nearly 4,700 people as of Dec. 31, 2022. Blackstone is the biggest of the alt managers and was the first to surpass $1 trillion in assets under management.

For years Blackstone has been known for hiring only the best, or those who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Ivy League schools like Harvard or Yale. That’s changed somewhat. Technology has helped Blackstone expand its reach, said Paige Ross, the firm’s global head of human resources. In 2015, Blackstone’s in-person approach meant the firm recruited from just nine schools. It currently uses a hybrid in-person and virtual recruiting strategy to connect to more than 1,000 schools, including historically black colleges and universities, Ross said.

The private equity industry has long been criticized for its lack of diversity. Women account for 32.5% of junior-level roles at alternative firms, which include private equity, hedge funds, and venture capital, but hold only 13.6% of senior positions, according to the Preqin report, Women in Alternatives 2023. Like many firms, Blackstone has sought to widen its recruitment and hiring funnel for many years. The firm uses programs like Future Women Leaders and Diverse Leaders to build relationships with underrepresented students starting in their sophomore year. In 2023, 43% of Blackstone’s global analyst class were female, while 59% of its U.S. class were ethnically diverse, Holderness said.

“We reach places that we historically didn’t reach before, like every school out there, pretty much. We’re able to get to any school and any student that wants to apply,” Ross told Fortune.

GPAs are important and do play a role in hiring, but Blackstone is looking for well-balanced people, Ross noted. The firm favors candidates who take a leadership role in school activities or on sports teams, she said. “We fundamentally believe that investing and business is a team sport,” Ross added.

Blackstone hires candidates from many different majors, not just finance and math. “We have people that [were] English majors,” Ross noted. Blackstone is known for its dealmaking, but it also hires analysts for its non-investment positions, including roles in accounting, communications, and technology.

The most famous former Blackstone analyst is Gray, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. (Gray earned two degrees from Penn: a BS in economics from the Wharton School and a BA in English from the College of Arts and Sciences.) He’s spent his entire career at Blackstone, starting off as a private equity/M&A analyst in 1992, according to his LinkedIn page. A year later, Gray switched over to real estate, becoming head of the Blackstone unit in 2005. In 2018, he was named president and COO of Blackstone and is widely considered the heir apparent to Schwarzman.

Blackstone typically does not use recruiters for the analyst position. The window for applications opens in the fall, Holderness said. Candidates should head to the Blackstone website and send in their résumés. “Cover letters are important, but the résumé is what will really play into it,” Ross said. Pay for a first-year data science analyst, located in New York, is $100,000 to $110,000, according to the Blackstone website. Analysts also usually receive an annual bonus.

Blackstone did not disclose how many interviews are involved. But applicants who are selected will initially meet with someone from human resources and then with executives from the divisions for which they are applying. Blackstone also uses Pymetrics, a game-based recruiting tool that uses A.I. to measure attributes like risk tolerance, fairness, and attention span in candidates.

The easiest way to snag a Blackstone analyst spot is to serve as a summer intern. The 10-week internship is a major feeder for the Blackstone full-time analyst program, Ross said. The window for internship applications runs from January to March. Ross said her team will usually ask each Blackstone business unit how many interns it needs that particular year. “That’ll determine the size of the class,” she said. These positions are also highly sought after, she noted.

The Blackstone internship occurs during the summer between a candidate’s junior and senior year, Holderness said. This means students should begin applying in their sophomore year, she advised. When it comes to majors, it depends on what group the student is applying to, Ross said. “We have summer analyst positions across the board as a firm, not just for our investment roles,” she said.

Blackstone summer interns are eligible to receive full-time offers in August for positions that begin the following year. For example, if a student finishes the internship in August of 2023, and receives an offer for a full-time spot, they could start working at Blackstone during the summer of 2024. Any full-time positions not filled by the interns will become available on the BX website in August, Holderness said. (There are several internship positions available now on the Blackstone career site but only a few of the more permanent analyst roles.)

Interviewing at Blackstone for the analyst position is a rigorous process. One former Blackstone analyst said they completed 13 interviews, including meeting with the head of the team they were applying to, as well as with a senior managing director, over a three-week period. The former Blackstone analyst, an economics major who attended a New York City college and had a 3.8 GPA, said they were quizzed on what was happening in the market, given ethical problems to solve that had no clear solution, and questioned about two case studies. The former BX analyst even gave a presentation, which included Excel modeling, to executives. The interview process culminated in a team lunch, where candidates were judged on whether they were a good overall fit, the former analyst recalled.

“It was exhausting…I spent more time preparing for the interviews than in the interviews themselves,” the ex-Blackstone analyst said.

Blackstone wanted to see whether applicants had a basic grasp of the market and economics, and to gauge their problem-solving skills and how they presented themselves verbally, the former BX employee noted. To prepare, the ex-Blackstone analyst recalled reading the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Wall Street Oasis, and Reddit. Candidates should know what is happening in the world and in their particular sector, the former analyst advised.

Blackstone employees, like most Wall Street staffers, are back in the office. For many at BX, the day starts between 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. each morning and finishes whenever the work is done. (The former Blackstone analyst said staff will work until 9 p.m. when their managers are in the office. When they’re not present, employees typically leave between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.) Blackstone staff don’t watch the clock, Ross noted. “We hire people that are really talented and professional, and we ask them to use their judgment,” she said.

Here are some tips for navigating the Blackstone interview process:

1. Be on time for your interview. Blackstone won’t hold arriving late against you, but it’s not a good thing, Ross said.

2. Be a team player. Blackstone likes people who are friendly and know how to work well with others. Candidates who can speak about their experiences in teams or clubs, as well as their leadership roles, typically do better. Those who emphasize their accomplishments alone (i.e., “I did this, I won that”) don’t.

3. Send thank-you notes and make sure to get the proper spelling of the executive’s name. While emails are acceptable, Ross said she has received about a dozen handwritten notes in her career and appreciated each of them. “I don’t really get [handwritten notes] anymore. When I do get one, I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s so nice,’” she said.

4. References are more important for senior hires and less so for analyst roles.

5. In interviews, candidates should be prepared to speak about themselves while answering questions. One question that Ross said she often asks is: “Give me an example of something that you didn’t do well. What did you do to fix it, and what did you learn from it?”

Another possible question is: “What advice would you give your younger self?”

6. When answering questions, candidates should avoid blaming others. Throwing others “under the bus” is a red flag for Blackstone.

7. Make sure to check your résumé for spelling and grammar. Firms will often throw out résumés with errors, the former BX analyst said.

8. Prepare for interviews by doing more than just reading up on salient topics during your subway ride to the meeting. When interviewing with a specific group, learn what they do and come armed with good questions.

9. Update your LinkedIn profile and make sure it’s correct.

10. Double-check that your social media is private and/or clean.

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