Banca IMI Interview Questions
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The Interview Difficulty is a score ranging from very difficult (red) to very easy (green) generated based on the Interview Insights at this company.
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.
- Very Easy
- Easy
- Average
- Difficult
- Very Difficult
Interview Questions & Answers - Banca IMI Examples
Summer Analyst Interview - Investment Banking
They asked me:
1. why IB and why Banca IMI (example of recent transaction)
2. SWOT analysis of yourself (within call with the MD)
3.. Walk me through your CV
4. Accounting questions: how do you structure a business plan? Walk me trough the 3 statements (main focus on Cash flow statement)
5. Valuation questions: DCF, comparables, EV, Equity value,
6. Difference between a sell-side and a buy-side pitch (describe the second one in details)
Investment Banking Intern Interview - Mergers and Acquisitions
-After two weeks, I receive a phone call where the HR of Banca IMI, the Investment Bank of the Group, wanted to see me and hold the technical interview.
-I see the HR and, after the same questions and answers, I have a 3-hour technical interview with one associate and one analyst, one associate and the MD (each turn last approx. one hour)
-Questions of the technical interview: 1st round -> 1) Tell me your story; 2) How to calculate EV (very in-depth); 3) What is Minority Interest; 4) LBO model; 5) Three levers to increase exit EV in LBO; 6) what's a DCF; 7) how to normalize free cash flow; 8) 9) Why should we hire you; 10) how the market is doing; 11) brainteaser; 2nd round -> 1) tell me your story; 2) what's a DCF; 3) difference between trading and transaction multiples; 4) M&A model; 5) accounting questions; 6) brainteaser; 3rd round -> 1) tell me your story; 2) how to value a machinery company
2) Brainteaser: One investor comes and offers $100 for a 100% equity firm while another one offers, for a different company (also 100% equity), $50 for its 50% as capital increase. At time zero, which offer makes the current firm's owner richer? True answer: the first one. Difficulty: the case was badly explained and I was already under pressure, making everything harder.
3) In the normalization of FCF, which tax rate do you consider?
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