City National Bank Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (92%)

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4.2
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Interview Difficulty (79%)

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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 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.

2.4
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% Interns - FT Offers (92%)

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 City National Bank

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Intern
Year 2021
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Credit
Location los angeles
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Easy
Intern
Year 2019
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Leveraged Finance
Location Los Angeles
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Average
2nd Year Analyst
Year 2018
Job Title 2nd Year Analyst
Group/Division Private Wealth Management
Location Los Angeles
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Easy
1st Year Associate
Year 2017
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division Risk
Location Los Angeles
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Negative
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Analyst
Year 2013
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Commercial Banking
Location Los Angeles
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Easy

Interview Questions & Answers - City National Bank Examples

Internship Interview - Credit

Anonymous interview candidate in los angeles
Interviewed: January 2021
Date Submitted: Jan 18, 2022
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Other
Interview
first talked to a person one-on-one with easy questions about getting to know me, why CNB, etc (lasted 20 minutes)
then had an interview with 4 people (two 2-on-1 interviews) (1 hour long total). I talked to one person from each department in credit. No technical questions, mainly behavioral. It seemed very casual.

Interview Questions
Talk about a situation in which you were not given all the information and how did you approach it.
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City National Bank Credit Analyst (Summer Intern) Interview - Leveraged Finance

Anonymous employee in Los Angeles
Interviewed: April 2019
Date Submitted: Jan 27, 2020
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Background Check
Interview
I got an interview a couple of weeks after submitting my resume. It consisted of a 30-minute phone interview, asking about basic leverage ratios, financial statement knowledge, relevant coursework, teamwork, past projects, and a resume walk-through. Overall the experience was comfortable. The process varied, some people had several interviews, while others had one or two.
Interview Questions
The interview consisted of questions covering financial statements, leverage ratios, relevant coursework, and behavioral questions like have you ever been involved in a team project where you had to make a big decision. The very first question was, walk me through your resume. There were two people on the phone call and it was fairly comfortable. I would say the hardest questions were the fit technical questions because at the time I had zero relevant coursework other than accounting. Overall it was a pretty good interview.
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Portfolio Design Analyst Interview - Private Wealth Management

Anonymous interview candidate in Los Angeles
Interviewed: June 2018
Date Submitted: Sep 05, 2018
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Spoke with a VP over the phone, general things about my resume and what I wanted to accomplish in the future. Firm culture appears to be friendly. Low drama.
Interview Questions
The unexpected question they asked me had to do with my customer service experience. I had listed on my resume that I worked as a tutor in the past and the interview informed me that the role had involvement with working with clients and other departments that were not as well informed about finance/financial markets. He had me explain any recent observation about the market and the roles in might play in a bond portfolio. Afterwards I was told to explain the role rising interesting rates would have on a corp bond and a treasury. It was pretty easy, but I think I over explained just to be thorough.
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CCAR Quantitative Analyst Interview - Risk

Anonymous interview candidate in Los Angeles
Interviewed: 2017
Date Submitted: Feb 09, 2017
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Interview
Met with HR for a 30 min consultation first. Just career goals and why City National. Those type of typical questions. The first session went over time. Then every session became late from there. Met with group head one on one, then met with two other teammembers. Very poorly organized. The group head was a very kind and intelligent guy. Seems very approachable and likable. However, one group member (older) was very aggressive and seemed like his only mission was to find a question I couldn't answer. It was more of a horse race than an interview. Very very unpleasant.
Interview Questions
Walk me through a bank's balance sheet? What are the typical off-balance sheet items for commercial banks? Explain to me the three Capital Adequacy Ratio - CAR .
lot of questions about statistics. Explain what is ordinary least squares. What is p-value? Questions are hard. You can't really prepared for it. If you don't know, you don't know.
Some strange questions related to macroeconomics such as Keynesian equation--the identity in macroecon.
The older guy on the team was very confrontational and unpleasant.
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Credit Analyst Interview - Commercial Banking

Anonymous employee in Los Angeles
Interviewed: December 2013
Date Submitted: Jul 01, 2014
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Background Check
Interview
1) Phone Interview w/ Recruiter: General Fit and Basic Technicals
-How much Accounting have you taken?

2) SuperDay: 3 1-on-1 Interviews with 2 Lead Underwriters and 1 Credit Manager
-All interviews consisted of Fit Questions and Basic "Walk me through your Resume"
-Very small sampling of Technicals:
--DSCR
--EBITDA
--What do you think the job entails and how would you approach each task?
Interview Questions
Question: Of the 5 C's of Credit, which is the most important, and why?

Answer: Character. The numbers matter but it is not the numbers that pay us back. Good people will always find a way to pay you back while bad people will do the opposite.

*Disclaimer: This is a good answer for a Regional Bank as we focus on the character/ relationship a lot more than a Commercial BB.

Sample Answer