Northern Trust Financial Analyst interview experience

No offer

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Positive

Chicago, ILPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process leaned heavily behavioral, and it felt like they were trying to understand how I worked before getting too deep into technicals.

After a recruiter touchpoint, I went into interviews where the questions included a lot of “tell me about yourself” style prompts, plus behavioral asks framed around situations and past experiences. I remember being asked about Northern Trust specifically and how my previous jobs aligned with the role.

The technical portion wasn’t the focus of every step, but it showed up as a clear second track at some point. I went through practical topics that tested tools and techniques, and there were also operations-oriented questions—less about trick concepts, more about whether I could reason through

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