Any insights on Greenhill?

top top boutique, better lifestyle than BBs. interview tends to be a bit more technical. they are selective both in giving out interviews and jobs.

my friend had a really technical interview but she's also a finance and accounting major from wharton and did ibanking this summer

In my final rounds there were six interviews, half with MDs and the other half with less senior people. The MDs focused on fit and everybody else grilled me on technical stuff. It's pretty similar to other boutiques and BBs as far as the topics in interviews covered, but I would say that the interviews were the most technical I've had thus far (Lazard being right up there).

They covered DCF in great detail, including questions about how to actually build the model in Excel, accretion/dilution questions, a case study of how to do a sum-of-the-parts valuation for a fictional company the guy made up on the spot, and a question about how changing your depreciation method would affect the financial statements. Pretty intense stuff.

I'm a finance major though, so maybe that could play a role in the questions asked. Generally though they are looking for people who know this stuff because they don't have an intense training program.

I successfully interviewed with them recently. I have a non-financial background but was still given quite technical questions. I had recently finished an internship so I guess they thought that was enough background. Questions mainly focused on DCF analysts as well as 'business sense'. 6 interviews over the course of the day.

great comments guys!

shoot... if they are super technical, I should probably not just read the vault guide, but actually do a DCF or would the guide knowledge be enough!!! Any ideas on how to prepare for the technical interview. Were the questions accounting focused or banking focused? Sounds like they were a good mix of both, but heavily on the DCF stuff.

You don't need to go out and build a DCF model, but just know how it all fits together. They specifically asked me about calculating free cash flow, using the mid-year convention to discount cash flows (but not the terminal value!), various ways to calculate a terminal value, how to calculate WACC, CAPM, and how to lever/unlever beta.

With WACC they had me draw a graph showing how the cost of capital changes as you go from 100% debt to 100% equity, and then explain why it looked the way it did.

I think the Vault Guide covers most of that anyway.

may i inquire as to whether these were (or in the case of monkeyinasuit, will be) in regards to an SA or FT position. Does Greenhill have an SA program anyone would care to comment on?

http://www.greenhill.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&It...

SA program interviews in Feb/Mar

All my stuff was for a FT position. They do have a limited number of summer analyst spots, and typically interview at the top schools.

bearing: with regards to that site, do you think it is even worth it to apply through that site if Greenhill doesn't do on-campus recruiting at your school. I got to a top 25 school, but not a target.

There is always a glimmer of hope when applying online as through my own experience I have secured interviews through resume drops. I wouldn't put too much stock into it thou.