Interviews

A couple questions. What parts of the vault guide will come up in a banking interview? Will we have to do a DCF or other valuation example during interviews? Or is it enough to just be able to have an intelligent conversation/answer basic questions about DCF?

Will we have to know the 3 financial statements front and back? be able to draw conclusions from it? What exactly will they ask about the financial statements?

The vault guide is great but I feel some of the more in-depth stuff is geared towards MBA candidates going for full-time positions.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

So I know some of my friends who attend other schools have received emails to schedule phone interviews for HK IBD summer analyst internship positions.

I checked the status of my applications and they're either under consideration or review.

Is anyone else in the same boat? Do they review by schools? And is this the delay a good/bad sign?

When can you expect to hear back about the Goldman Sachs Spring Securities Program?

Hi there,

Last Friday I conducted a superday with an investment management firm, which thereafter I was one of three to be invited to a lunch with one of the MDs. This MD told me during our conversation that a candidate would be selected by Tuesday.

It is now Saturday, and I have yet to hear back. Initially, I figured I was not chosen. But shouldn't the firm at least reply back telling us we were not selected? Or is there a possibility I am an alternate? For example, what if the candidate that was offered a job rejects his or her offer?

One last advice: What should I do in the meantime? Should I reply back to that MD? Or just wait it out?

Thanks again!

What are some intelligent questions to ask during an interview? I suppose it depends on the nature of the interview and what division, etc. I have an Ops interview coming up soon - what are some questions that I could ask then?

Hey guys,

Just recently finished up some interviews and was wondering on how you gauge the success of your interview. It really throws me off when the interviewer is stone cold serious, leaving me wondering, is it me, is it something I said, or is this all a game? Sometimes I can tell they are trying to grill me and other times maybe they just have an innate instinctual dislike of me.

Do you guys usually find that interviewers like to mess with your head by acting disinterested or giving very intense "are you serious, who is this kid?" stares?

All the anticipation of hearing back for second rounds is making me anxious and I would like to know your guys' experiences in determining how well your interview went.

Thanks!

So I've heard that first year analysts looking to get prominent PE jobs start interviewing around Jan of their first year (so for newly minted analysts that'd be Jan of 09)

First ? is this - obviously a lot of the PE shops hire on a set schedule much like banks do - is January really an appropriate time to start scheduling interviews?

Second? - what's the best way to start preparing for interviews/setting up interviews?

Third? - what the hell do they base hiring decisions off of in January as I've only been on the line for three/four months at that point? How imp is undergrad GPA if you're at a top bank - GS/MS/JP in a solid product group?

Fourth? - is it even worth interviewing out this year? Mightn't it be better to hold off an try for a third year analysts position and interview such that I'd leave after that? I imagine that mkt conditions will have improved/job opportunities would be more at that point?