S&P Global Assessment Tests
S&P Global asks shortlisted applicants to sit a brief online assessment before the interview stages. Here is what that step involves, what S&P Global does and does not publish about it, and how to practise for it.
- Five hiring stages
- 10 practice tests in the S&P Global pack
- 100 questions, all solved
- Employees
- Around 44,500 worldwide
- Head office
- New York, United States
- Careers site
- S&P Global careers
What are the S&P Global tests?
S&P Global asks shortlisted applicants to complete a brief online assessment before the interview stages of its early careers hiring. S&P Global does not publish what that assessment contains or who writes it, so the useful preparation is general numerical and verbal reasoning practice rather than anything branded.
S&P Global application process
From application to final assessment. The process varies slightly by programme and office.
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- 10
- practice tests
- 100
- questions, all solved
Careers at S&P Global
S&P Global is a financial information company. It rates credit, builds market benchmarks and indices, and sells the data and analysis that investors, companies and governments use to make decisions, work it groups under the name Essential Intelligence. The business runs through S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Global Energy and S&P Dow Jones Indices, with offices in more than 150 locations. Hiring covers graduate and intern intakes, apprenticeships and experienced roles, and most of them are analytical. That is why the assessment comes early. S&P Global asks shortlisted applicants to complete a brief online assessment before the interview stages begin.
S&P Global publishes a candidate journey that runs from application to offer. These are the stages that matter to you as a candidate:
1. Online Application
2. Online Assessment
3. Recruiter Phone Screen
4. Interviews with the Hiring Team
5. Background and Reference Check
S&P Global does not publish an assessment centre stage for these roles, and the order of the middle stages can vary by division and office.
S&P Global Online Application
You apply online through S&P Global’s careers site and upload a current CV. Match the CV to the specific role rather than sending a general one. Recruiters shortlist from it, and being shortlisted is what triggers the next step.
S&P Global Online Assessment
S&P Global’s current early careers adverts state that shortlisted candidates are then asked to complete a brief online assessment. S&P Global does not publish what the assessment contains or who writes it, so treat the underlying skills as the target: reading numerical data accurately under time pressure, and reading a written argument closely enough to say what it does and does not support. Practise in whole timed sets rather than one question at a time, because in a short assessment the binding constraint is the clock.
S&P Global Recruiter Phone Screen
S&P Global’s published candidate journey puts a recruiter phone screen before you meet the hiring manager. It is a short conversation about your background, your motivation for that specific team, and practicalities such as location and start date. Be able to say in one or two sentences why this division rather than another.
S&P Global Interviews with the Hiring Team
The journey then runs through a hiring manager interview and a meeting with the wider interview team, followed by an internal feedback session where the team compares notes and a finalist is identified. Expect to be asked about work you have actually done and to be pressed on the detail. For an analytical role, be ready to talk through a piece of analysis end to end, including what you would do differently.
S&P Global Background and Reference Check
Once a finalist is identified, S&P Global runs a background and reference check before the offer is extended. There is nothing to prepare here beyond keeping your dates, job titles and referee details accurate on the application, because that is what gets checked.
Frequently asked questions
What candidates ask us most often
Are the S&P Global tests hard?
S&P Global describes the assessment as brief, so the pressure comes from the clock rather than from unusually hard questions. Sitting whole timed sets, rather than working through questions at your own pace, is what tells you whether you are ready.
How do I prepare for S&P Global tests?
Practise under time, not at your own pace. Work through timed numerical and verbal reasoning sets, mark them, and go back over every question you got wrong until you can see the method rather than remember the answer.
What are the stages of the S&P Global recruitment process?
S&P Global publishes a candidate journey that runs from an online application through a recruiter phone screen, a hiring manager interview, a meeting with the wider interview team, a background and reference check, and finally an offer. Its current early careers adverts add a brief online assessment for shortlisted applicants. S&P Global does not publish how long the process takes.
What are S&P Global's core values?
S&P Global names three values, discovery, integrity and partnership. In its own words, discovery is seeking new sources of value, integrity is doing what is right, and partnership is forming connections for impact.
S&P Global is a trademark of its respective owner. Practice Aptitude Tests is not affiliated with S&P Global and our practice tests are not endorsed by them. Visit S&P Global careers.
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