MS Fixed Income S&T Interview coming up...

can you be more specific? Is this a first round or a second round? full time or internship?

if by phone most likely competency based. but also depends which department ure interviewer from

if you don't have a business background, I wouldn't worry too much about technicals (ie - yield curves, bond pricing, etc). Know whats happening in the markets (should be easy right now), and make sure your mental math is sharp. Reading over previous threads on brain teasers would also help.

This is for a first round interview where they will come to campus. No phone interview first.

As for the technicals, I am a business economics major so I do know bout yield curves and what it means when they flip etc... I've taken 2 finance classes so I know bond math, but at my school they don't offer any ibanking or sales and trading classes.

I'm worried they will ask me about technical analysis which I have little experience in or something highly specific to trading like exotic fixed income securities that I've never heard of. I did not do a summer in sales in trading, but rather Ibanking m&a stuff so I'm thinking of reading like mad everything I can about fixed income.

Is the interview more fit or highly technical, as in "tell me about this exotic swaption"?.

Got rocked in final rounds with them last year, MD started asking about pricing interest rate options. And I was a poor Engineering major. And some brain teasers. If you do make it to final round, of the 3, one can be very technical (or may be I was one off).

fyi the recent S&T final round interviews for MS have been "postponed"

lets hope for the best

ehh... recent S&T final round interviews have been postponed? I haven't even interviewed first round!! Hope they don't cancel... Jeebus... I should just go work for wells fargo S&T, they're doing well.

Firms really need to stop wasting kids' time if they really have no intention of hiring.

if the MD was asking you about interest rate options, he was just trying to see how you performed under pressure, and/or if you had some natural intuition. He wasn't looking for a spot on answer.

technical analysis cannot be taught in a classroom, and it really isn't all about arcane chart patterns. I've never had or asked a question like this in an interview

any update on whether MS is indeed hiring for S&T ?

I've yet to hear from HR regarding rescheduling

First hand knowledge of a S&T superday next week...