I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at RBC (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2017
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me for a position in RBC capital market algo trading team, I received a phone interview. The interviewer started with asking questions on my resume and some OOP questions. The whole interview process was rushed through, the interviewer was ready to hang up after 15 minutes and did not give me a chance to ask them question. Then I tried to ask some questions about his team, he was having very long pauses and seemed like he was doing something else at the same time. It was overall a pretty negative experience with this RBC interview, please do show some respect to the interviewees.
I applied online. I interviewed at RBC (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2017
Interview
Applied through their website and received an interview invite about 1 week or 2 weeks later.
The interview consisted of about 1 behavioural question, several investment-related and bank related questions, a coding question, a brain teaser, and several questions on specific details regarding C, Java, Python, Linux/Windows.
The interview was quite hard for me because I prepared for it in the wrong way. When I received the interview invite, I asked for tips on how to prepare. The recruiter said in the email that the interview will be a mix of behavioural and technical questions, but you won't have to write code. However, the actual format of the interview is like what I described above and I wasn't able to show how much effort I spent on researching the company and tailoring answers to behavioural questions.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at RBC (Windsor, ON) in Jul 2017
Interview
Applied online for coop position. Got a call in 2 weeks. Interview was not that difficult. Questions will be based on the projects done and our own skill set. Few technical questions and few behavioral questions.