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The article lines up with my experience helping screen / hire graduates on to the technical program of a large US based investment bank in London. Only graduate
by rluhar 15y ago
The article lines up with my experience helping screen / hire graduates on to the technical program of a large US based investment bank in London. Only graduates from a handful of Universities in England (and the Republic of Ireland) were considered. These were not limited to the elite engineering schools (Imperial, Cambridge, etc.) however. They did not ask for academic transcripts etc., but only on the final grade (or "class" in the UK).
The most interesting thing I found was that the technical interview did not really matter as much as other interviews and group exercises. I think this made sense since we were hiring candidates straight from University.
- ig1 15y agoAlmost no-one uses transcripts for graduate recruiting in the UK. There's also quite a bit of variation between how banks hire graduates in london. Some such as KBC have very hard-core testing, some like barcap use psychometric style programming questions, while some use mostly "soft testing".
- arethuza 15y agoOut of interest, what would an "academic transcripts" be anyway? Marked exam papers, essays, project work, dissertations?
- robotresearcher 15y agoIt's a list of all the classes taken, with their dates and grades received, and usually the grade point average (GPA) which is traditionally in the range [0..4]. The official transcript is issued by the university and is considered reliable proof of your grades. An employer might request this along with references. Grad school applications usually require them. About GPAs, for those in a different system, in some places it's possible to get a little over 4.0 through extra-credit assignments. The top couple of students in the year might have 4.1, for example. None of this existed in the UK, a least when I was there.