Analyst

1st round on-campus interview with a PM. Interview was mostly focused on delivering a L/S stock pitch and answering questions on that idea. The most challenging and stressful part was that the interviewer had his computer and internal models hooked up and ready to go once I gave him the 2 tickers, whereas I was going all-verbal without any notes.

Note that Carlson primarily does pairs trading for their equity strategies, so your long-short pitch should presumably be stocks in the same industry, where you are betting on some type of pricing convergence (or divergence)