Junior Year Intern

Group/Division/Type
Sales and Trading
City
Hong Kong
Interviewed
January 2014
Overall experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average

General Interview Information

Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months

Interview Details

What did the interview consist of?
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
1st round Questions: tell me about yourself
Stress- tell me how you dealt with a stressful situation
would you prefer sales or trading?
would you prefer equities or fixed income?
quick reaction- tell me about a time you had to react quickly to a failure of sorts
task - new info came up - how do you deal with new information
conflict/conflicting attitudes in work - how did you deal with it
reacting to failure - something screwed up, how did you deal with it
any time you went above and beyond
typical weekend
what do you see 2014 holding for markets?

2nd round (extremely short, 6am US time): Have you talked with ***?
Tell me about yourself
Tell me about a time you had dificulty understanding something
tell me about a complex project.
sales vs trading

Final Round in New York
Standard questions.
Tell me a time you failed.
React quickly to failure.
Pitch me a stock.
Why Trading.
If I gave you $1, you had to pay me $20 and $100 for company A and B going bankrupt, which company is riskier?
What other offers do you have?
Why do you want BAML?
Who do you know in BAML?
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