Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Point72 as 66.7% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Summer Analyst and Investment Banking Analyst rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Summer Analyst and Investment Banking Analyst roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Point72 takes an average of 32 days when considering 3 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Investment Banking Analyst had the quickest hiring process (on average 21 days), whereas Summer Analyst roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 42 days).
I was approached by headhunter for this investment analyst role, spoke to the HR for an initial talk and then interviewed by your future boss. The interview process is very focused on the sector you will be looking at and how to build models etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to analyze the downside risk of a company? And what factors to consider when shorting
I applied online. I interviewed at Point72 in Apr 2026
Interview
3-round interview
first one is AI/ML background short-answer questions
The second one is a LeetCode-style problem
Then they will give you a take-home project to work on and make a presentation after that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Introduce the transformer structure.
What is overfitting?
I applied online. I interviewed at Point72 in Dec 2025
Interview
After getting selected for resume screen, there is an OA which consists of data science python questions, and a video assessment called Criteria Corp, where you answer basic behavorial questions regarding your data science expertise. The first round is a Python leetcode style question, around easy-med difficulty. The interviewer recommends you to solve the problem in python. After that, you get 5 minutes to ask questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of strings in an array, apply some computational tricks to convert them into certain numbers given some formulas and then figure out the parity of the final number.