Investment Banking Entry Level Brain Teasers
What are the most complex/common brain teasers an entry level interviewer has asked you? Goldman, Morgan, JP, BofA
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Question: If you were in a concrete box with no doors or windows, and all that was in the box was you, a mirror, a table, and a light so you could see, how would you get out?
Answer: First look around inside the box, then look in the mirror. When you look in the mirror you will see what you saw. You then take the saw to cut the table in half. Then take those two halves and put them together to make a whole (hole). Then put the hole on the ground and jump out.
My response: You're a virgin
This is why you study philosophy (like me), and not some virgin useless major like EE or CS.
A couple I have received:
1) If you are looking at an analog clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle created between the hour and minute hands?
2) How would you go about estimating the number of light bulbs in Australia?
EB first-round asked me to estimate the number of people working in invesment banking in NYC.
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