Applied through LinkedIn, heard back in about 10 days. Recruiter call was 30 min, mostly career story + why asset management. No real surprises there.
Then a HireVue: 5 questions, 2 min each. One technical (walk me through a DCF), the rest behavioral. I hate asynchronous video interviews but this one was standard.
Virtual onsite was 4 back-to-back 45-min interviews. One was straight finance: build a quick model conceptually, walk me through WACC adjustments, interpret an IRR. Another was behavioral only, very STAR-heavy. Third was a case-lite scenario, kind of like a consulting case but more operational. Fourth was with a senior director who asked almost entirely about my career trajectory and how I make decisions under incomplete information.
The Aladdin platform came up twice. I had done some research but not nearly enough. If you're targeting finance or risk roles, spend real time understanding what Aladdin does and how BlackRock thinks about factor risk. That's table stakes I didn't know about going in.
Offer came 11 days after the onsite. Total time start to offer: 6.5 weeks. The process felt thorough but never adversarial. They're looking for people who can operate in a highly regulated, high-stakes environment, and the questions reflect that.