BlackRock
Asset managementThe largest asset manager in the world, and not a bank, which is the distinction most applicants fail to draw. The spring week video interview is four questions, reported as the same four every time, and all of them behavioural. Nothing here is technical; everything here is about whether your examples are real.
About BlackRock
The world's largest asset manager, founded in 1988, running money for pension funds, insurers, governments and individuals. Most of what it manages sits in index funds and ETFs through iShares rather than in stock picking, so the business is built on scale and cost. It also runs Aladdin, the risk and portfolio management platform that BlackRock sells to other institutions, which makes a meaningful part of the firm a technology business rather than an investing one.
- Founded
- 1988
- Headquarters
- New York
- Assets under management
- Over $11 trillion
- Employees
- About 21,000
- Known for
- iShares ETFs and the Aladdin platform
- Model
- Asset manager, not a bank: no lending, no deals
Core values
The process
- 1Application
Online application to the spring week programme.
- 2Recorded video interviewConfirmed · 2027 cycle
Four questions, reported as the same four for every applicant. All four are behavioural or motivational and none of them are technical, so there is no accounting or valuation to revise for this stage. We do not have confirmed preparation and answer times for this one, so plan on the usual range of thirty seconds to prepare and one to two minutes to answer, and check the timer on the day.
- 3Later stages
We have not verified what follows the video interview for this cycle, so treat the four questions as the part of this page that is confirmed.
What BlackRock screens for
- Whether you know BlackRock is an asset manager rather than a bank
- A real view on a news story, not a recap of the headline
- Initiative taken where other people had accepted the status quo
- Specific motivation rather than a claim about being passionate
- Examples with a genuine chance of failure in them
The AI marks your answers against this emphasis — not just a generic rubric.
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