Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (65%)

The Interview Experience is a score from 1 star (very negative) to 5 stars (very positive) generated based on the Interview Insights at this company.

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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 reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire dataset.

3.7
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Interview Difficulty (58%)

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.

2.7
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% Interns - FT Offers (59%)

The % of Interns Getting a Full Time Offer chart is meant to provide a realistic estimate of the hiring practices of the company based on the reviews at this company.

The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. 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 reviews). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to the simple company average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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Interviews at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

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Year 2013
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Consulting
Location Caracas
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Difficulty
Average
1st Year Analyst
Year 2012
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
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Location New York
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Year 2012
Job Title Intern
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Location Birmingham
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Interview Questions & Answers - Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Examples

Research Intern Interview - Consulting

Anonymous employee in Caracas
Interviewed: November 2013
Date Submitted: Jan 26, 2014
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Personality Test
Background Check
Interview
I got in BBVA via an employee referral. It was an uncommon process since I only went through an interview for background check, they liked me and told me I had got the internship. Then, I took a test from human resources -numerical and verbal skills-, but it seemed more like a formality, though I'm pretty sure that's not the way the admission process usually is.
BBVA is great. Big presence in Europe and Latin America and very focused on Latin American Markets. A lot of professionalism. The corporate culture is always heading towards making everything lean and simple. The Research department is very cool, you get to interact with BBVA board members and with corporate clients in order to offer your insights about economic and financial analisys.
Interview Questions
Why are you interested in research?

How would you manage your time between the university and the internship?
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Analyst - M&A Interview -

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: 2012
Date Submitted: Mar 13, 2013
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
I had a 30 minute phone interview with a senior banker. I discussed mostly my transaction experience and reasons for wanting to switch to M&A (I worked in a debt product group at the time). I was asked the typical valuation questions (DCF, comps, etc) and asked to have a brief conversation in Spanish.
Interview Questions
What types of valuation are you familiar with?
How do you get to free cash flow?
Please speak with me in Spanish.
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Rotational Internship Interview -

Anonymous interview candidate in Birmingham
Interviewed: February 2012
Date Submitted: May 30, 2012
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
I actually interviewed for BBVA Compass - corporate HQ.

Seemed very brief: I applied online 2 weeks before their deadline and was scheduled for an in person interview on campus.

The interview was 1 on 1 and mostly behavioral. I actually thought my interviewer was really nice and it seemed very conversational and fun.

The interview was more on the easy side and nothing technical sprouted up. Though I was not interviewing for pure Investment Banking, more commercial and middle market mixed with the rotational.

Advice I would offer would be to seriously consider if you would actually like to work for a more commercial bank. There is BBVA, and this is BBVA Compass - little more laid back.
Interview Questions
If not this company or industry, where would you want to be?

This I kind of messed up in - Compass is purely Commercial and I said I would like to do Investment Banking. The problem was that not only did I not have a good explanation for my claim, but my tone was more or less suggesting that IB was far better than Commercial. This threw the Interviewer off a bit and they started giggling a little when I couldn't give them a straight answer.
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