JH Darbie & Company Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (4%)

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Interview Difficulty (22%)

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The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. The higher the number, the more difficult the interviews on average. If you hover over the various sections of the doughnut, you will see the % breakdown of each score given.

The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more insights, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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% Interns - FT Offers (26%)

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The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. If you hover over the various sections of the doughnut, you will see the % breakdown of each score given.

The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few reviews). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to the simple company average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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Interviews at JH Darbie & Company

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Year 2014
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Sales and Trading
Location New York
Experience
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Difficulty
Very Easy
Intern
Year 2014
Job Title Intern
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Location New York
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Positive
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Interview Questions & Answers - JH Darbie & Company Examples

Stockbroker Intern Interview - Sales and Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: August 2014
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
For starters, I could only find the office because they had a piece of printer paper outside the door with the words "JH Darbie & Co" written on it. Probably not a great sign but what the hell, I was already here. Sat up front for 15 minutes before someone resembling a secretary showed up and handed me a packet, saying I had thirty minutes to complete it. So here I am dressed up in my suit ready to interview, sitting in a chair in the lobby trying to take a test I didn't even know about. The test is a total joke. "How do you cut a birthday cake into 8 pieces using only 3 cuts? How would you escape from a blender if you were shrunk and put inside it? How far is it from here to Russia?". At this point I'm wondering if I even showed up to the right office... A few questions somewhat resembling finance sprinkled in and I was done.

I sat out in the lobby for another 15 minutes before someone comes out to shake my hand and bring me to the back. This office is a wreck. Boxes all over the place, trash in the floor. The computers in this place are straight out of the '90s, they looked so old and fragile I'm not sure you could get Minesweeper to run on them. We walk back to what I assume used to be a storage closet and they ask me to take a seat in the only chair in the room.

These two clowns then proceed to rant on and on about how "prestigious" this program is and how they don't just let anybody in (Update: Turns out they actually do). They ask me a couple of totally off-the-wall finance definitions in an attempt to stump me and then patronize me when I get one of them wrong. They continue to talk down to me while one of them attempts to brag about how much money flows through this place. Clearly not enough, to get working A/C or fix this broken chair I'm sitting in but oh well. By the end of this ridiculous spiel, they offer me the job. I told them I'd get back to them and left. AVOID THIS PLACE At ALL COSTS, total waste of time.
Interview Questions
Tell me why you're worth our time
Are you comfortable on the phones talking to people?
Do you know what a (insert finance term) is?

Intern for a stock broker program Interview

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: 2014
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Other
Interview
I spoke with them on the phone, then he offered me an interview, he gave me good advice regarding the program and informed me that it wasn't paid, and also gave some insights about how tough the work environment is, also how strong i must be mentally.


He also gave other options if the internship doesn't work out to my favor, saying that he will give a letter of recommendation and will make it look good on my resume so that it would help me in future interviews.
Interview Questions
Why should i hire you?

When i answered that i'm a hard worker, he said mexicans are hard workers, what else.

Why do you want to be a stock broker?


I said that i was passionate about sales.


What did you hear about the company?

I said that i did some research and found that it's a nice company.


If an investor wants to pull his money from the stocks what do you say?

I said that i will ask why and try to convince him that it's still better to keep his money in the market.