Bank of Montreal Interview Questions

16 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (90%)

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.

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 donut, 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 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
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (94%)

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.

3
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  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult
% Interns - FT Offers (95%)

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 Bank of Montreal

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Intern
Year 2024
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Corporate Finance
Location Chicago
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Easy
Intern
Year 2024
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Corporate Finance
Location Chicago
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Easy
Research Associate
Year 2021
Job Title Research Associate
Group/Division Healthcare
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2021
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location Toronto
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Analyst
Year 2019
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location Houston
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
2nd Year Analyst
Year 2021
Job Title 2nd Year Analyst
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location Toronto
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
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Year 2020
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location Houston
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
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Year 2019
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Global Markets
Location New York
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Easy
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Year 2019
Job Title Summer Associate Intern
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location San Francisco
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
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Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2019
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location Chicago
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - Bank of Montreal Examples

Business Analyst Interview - Corporate Finance

Anonymous employee in Chicago
Interviewed: February 2024
Date Submitted: Mar 31, 2024
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Personality Test
Interview
It was a zoom call with the team leader, consisted mostly of behavioral and hypothetical situations. Some questions related to resume but didn't dig very deep.
Interview Questions
What would you do if you are working on a project with missing information?
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Equity Research Associate Interview - Healthcare

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: September 2021
Date Submitted: Feb 13, 2023
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Background Check
Interview
Call with analyst, associate on team followed by modelling + writing assessment. Interview with 4-5 seniors at the firm.
Interview Questions
One behavioral question of what will you invest in if you have $1M
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Intern Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous employee in Toronto
Interviewed: August 2021
Date Submitted: Apr 06, 2022
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Background Check
Interview
I had super days at other banks, so I had the recruiter reach out to me at first. I explained the situation to her and she expedited my interview process, I applied directly to the real estate brokerage inside if the Investment Bank. The first round consisted of 30 minutes of technicals and 15 minutes of behavioral with property level questions (Walk me through an NOI, two identical properties why's one worth more, what's the discount rate for a property etc.). The second round was then with a director he was running late so it was just a 20-minute conversational interview he didn't really ask anything other than tell me about yourself and anything else I should know about you.
Interview Questions
What's the discount rate for a property (They mean an actual building, not a REIT). I was also asked follow up questions on why two identical neighboring buildings would be worth a different amount, they asked would you rather have longer or shorter term leases what's an ideal tenant.
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IB Analyst Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous interview candidate in Houston
Interviewed: May 2019
Date Submitted: Oct 26, 2021
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Personality Test
Interview
Was pretty standard interview process. On superday, interview lasted ~4-6 hours and consited of many group interviews.
Interview Questions
Pretty standard questions. No brainteasers that threw me off. Hardest was the modeling/formatting test
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Analyst Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous employee in Toronto
Interviewed: February 2021
Date Submitted: Jul 05, 2021
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Background Check
Interview
Five interviews over the course of three weeks. Interview with two associated, VP, Director and two MDs. First two interviews consisted of mainly technicals
Interview Questions
Walk me through your resume, why banking, general behavioral questions and technical questions of varying difficulty all from the standard interview guides.
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Summer Analyst Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous interview candidate in Houston
Interviewed: August 2020
Date Submitted: Aug 26, 2020
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
I initially got the interview by reaching out to bankers through linkedIn. There was no online application available, and I was able to land it via employee referall.
The first round interview was mainly behavioral based. There were some technical questions, but they were basic such as DCF, 4 valuation methods, Basic Accounting Questions, and Equity Value vs Enterprise Value
Interview Questions
The Most difficult parts of the interview process were energy specific questions. I was applying for a Houston position and I got specific questions about Energy valuation.
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Global Markets Summer Analyst Interview - Global Markets

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: July 2019
Date Submitted: Oct 31, 2019
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
I applied through a campus portal. They reached out through HR to schedule a first round phone interview with a VP
Interview Questions
The interview was mostly pretty standard. They asked primarily behavioral questions such as walk me through your resume, why do you want to work at BMO, and then some more situationals such as how would you deal with team members who don't get along and how would you deal with it if one of your team members were not on board with your trade ideas or were making your process during a sale difficult. They also asked some questions about the markets such as asking me to describe what's going on right now and what is the economy going to look like in the near future.
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Investment Banking Summer Analyst Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous interview candidate in San Francisco
Interviewed: July 2019
Date Submitted: Jul 16, 2019
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
I had to complete a phone screen with both fit and technical questions and then I had to attend a superday at the San Francisco office.
Interview Questions
One question that was a little weird was a question about markets. He asked what my favorite company was and I told him.

Aside from that I didn't expect to get asked about levered/unlevered beta but I was asked.

He didn't ask about strengths and weaknesses which I found to be a bit odd.

I was asked why I wanted to work at BMO and why at this particular location as well.

He also didn't ask about DCFs or about how the financial statements link together either.

I got more technicals than I expected.
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Summer Analyst Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: April 2019
Date Submitted: May 22, 2019
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Interview
First applied through my core school recruiting page. I actually messed up a part and had to email it in. First interview was in the room with an analyst who had a VP on the phone. Very technical. Asked high level LBO questions
Interview Questions
Most difficult questions for me were the accounting questions. They really knew how to throw curveballs to make sure that kids weren’t repeating answers from the book. I was also asked some pretty in depth valuation questions about how I did a certain project on my resume. I made it obvious that it was a small part of my resume, but we spent about 10 minutes on it anyway. At the end I got a pretty difficult brain teaser: You have a box of apples, a box of oranges and a box of both. There are labels on each, but all are incorrect. You can pull one fruit out of one box and correctly label the boxes.
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Summer Analyst Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: May 2018
Date Submitted: Sep 02, 2018
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Applied through school site after talking to a few analysts on the phone. Bank came to campus about a week later for first rounds and had half hour interview with MD.
Interview Questions
The interviewer asked a couple brain teasers that are pretty common but took me off guard. One was the two bucket question where you have to get one bucket to have exactly 2 gallons in it. The other was about having apples and oranges and sorting between three buckets so you know exactly what is in each bucket. They also asked questions about DCFs and LBOs but those were not too hard and relatively basic. Lastly, there were some basic behavioral questions about my resume, my background, and childhood.
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