Commerzbank AG Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (94%)

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Interview Difficulty (92%)

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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.

2.9
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% Interns - FT Offers (55%)

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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 Commerzbank AG

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Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2023
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location London
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Easy
1st Year Analyst
Year 2021
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Equity Capital Markets
Location Frankfurt
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2019
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Sales and Trading
Location
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Intern
Year 2019
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Risk Management
Location London
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Average
Assistant Vice President
Year 2016
Job Title Assistant Vice President
Group/Division Sales and Trading
Location London
Experience
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Difficulty
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Year 2015
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location Hong Kong
Experience
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Difficulty
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Year 2017
Job Title Intern
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Location frankfurt
Experience
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Difficulty
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Year 2017
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Debt Capital Markets
Location London
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Intern
Year 2017
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Derivatives
Location London
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Easy
Intern
Year 2015
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location Frankfurt
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Easy

Interview Questions & Answers - Commerzbank AG Examples

Electronic FX Intern Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed: January 2023
Date Submitted: Mar 04, 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
After sending initial application, got offered interview in less than one week for the following day - very quick turnaround. Interview consisted purely on questions about my background, but 'tell me a time' competency questions - just asking more about my technical skills. Very conversational and laid back.
Interview Questions
Asked me about how much revenue is generated from 1,000,000 euros order - assuming two pip spread.
Sample Answer

Analyst Interview - Equity Capital Markets

Anonymous interview candidate in Frankfurt
Interviewed: August 2021
Date Submitted: Mar 13, 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Reached out to an employee (AVP), invited to 4 rounds with seniors and junior bankers. Heard back within 3 weeks post interviews
Interview Questions
Was interviewing for ECM and didn't expect questions on M&A accounting like NCI flowing through the three statements, detailed walkthrough of goodwill and PPA accounting and how they impact the balance sheet and income statement
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Sales Interview - Sales and Trading

Anonymous employee in
Interviewed: April 2019
Date Submitted: Dec 30, 2020
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Personality Test
Background Check
Interview
Submitted resume and cover letter on campus platform. Followed by several phone call and video interviews.
Interview Questions
Why do you want to do sales?
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Quantitative Market Risk Interview - Risk Management

Anonymous employee in London
Interviewed: March 2019
Date Submitted: Mar 12, 2019
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
IQ / Intelligence Test
Background Check
Interview
I applied to my university career portal.

I first got a call from an HR, then interview personally at the offices.
Offices are in the heart of the City of London, and look beautiful with an overall great organisation.

Interviewer (actually two managers) were really nice and the general culture seemed interesting.
First few fit and personal questions, then moved to technical parts and few brainteasers.

I got back with an offer just two hours later.
Interview Questions
To be honest the environment were pretty relaxed and the interviewer did not put pressure on me.
I was very happy to answer their questions and they gave me the needed time to elaborate a good reply.

I think the hardest question was about explaining volatility smile and going in details for linearity/non linearity, but they helped me allowing to use examples and papers to sketch payoffs of options/derivatives on paper

Personal questions and brainteasers were fine, just plain vanilla questions common in interviews
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FX Trading Interview - Sales and Trading

Anonymous employee in London
Interviewed: July 2016
Date Submitted: Apr 29, 2018
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Interview
Interviewers were engaging and they gladly shared the work flow of the desk. Overall, very positive experience.
Interview Questions
Technical questions related to trade flow of spot, forward, swap transactions. Also, things like bid-ask spreads of certain currency pairs, warehousing of risks, how do certain market players react to economic data / news flow / changes in government policies. Macro news flow and its impact on individual trade level and at portfolio level. Risk metrics - VaR, stress testing of portfolio. Whether if I have any knowledge in building quantitative tools to contribute profitability to desk. Networking and useful contacts / information.
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Equity Derivatives Trading Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous employee in Hong Kong
Interviewed: February 2015
Date Submitted: Nov 01, 2017
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
I applied through university career offices and was called to meet with the business teams within two week. Several rounds of one to one interviews, a mixture of technical and behavioral questions.
Interview Questions
I was asked to explain my project in detail in my last internship experience. The interviewer was quite experienced and asked a lot of detailed follow-up questions. Furthermore, I was also asked to write codes in VBA with pen and paper. Another interview asked me a lot about the option greeks, including how to explain the graph of a greek - stock price intuitively. Pretty intense and be focused on the derivatives part, as well as personal experience. Know your resume well since any detail could be asked.
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exotics intern Interview - Other

Anonymous employee in frankfurt
Interviewed: February 2017
Date Submitted: Oct 07, 2017
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Had two phone call to interviews, one with my manager and one with his boss. Topics were technical and competency based.
Interview Questions
Most topics on unconventional derivatives, had some questions about why germany as i did not study in Germany at the time of the interview.

Was asked some brain teasers that which was unexpected as these are a bad way to judge candidates.

Was asked some questions on why I study my degree, How I liked my current course and how it can help Commerzbank.

Asked me if I knew any programming and explained their own proprietary programming tools.

In general, I had not prepared whatsoever, so found each question a challenge.
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Commerzbank Interview - Debt Capital Markets

Anonymous employee in London
Interviewed: May 2017
Date Submitted: Sep 25, 2017
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
3-4 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
online application -> first round with associate -> second round with MD+associate

General DCM Bonds questions - how do you price a bond? How to you see interest rates moving? What is the debt waterfall?
Interview Questions
40 minute interview - clearly segmented into sections

1) Walk me through your CV
2) Economic questions
3) technical questions

exact questions:


1) How do you price a bond? 2) expectations in relation to macro economic events e.g. would yields rise or fall if Macron won the election? 3) What's the next big financial crisis going to look like? 4) US Interest rates, rise or fall? 5) general fit/competency questions e.g. what skills do you have, why you, when have you shown teamwork? shown leadership?

No brainteasers, very straight forward.
Sample Answer

Equity Derivatives Trading and Structuring Interview - Derivatives

Anonymous employee in London
Interviewed: February 2017
Date Submitted: Feb 12, 2017
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
This review is about the first interview, I have the second interview tomorrow. Need access to some features so putting up review now. Will update for the second interview later.
The first interview was taken by a structurer. He briefly asked some questions about my profile and dived into technical questions. The questions were related to Derivatives, Structured Products, Black-Scholes model and the greeks. Then he asked me two brainteaser. I think, with the brainteaser they want to see how you structure your thoughts and how well you can do under pressure.
(Review of the second review to follow.)
Cheers

P.S. Haven't finished the process yet. Will update later if I got the offer or not. For now, I'll stay optimistic and select "Accepted Offer'
Interview Questions
I already expected the interview to be a bit technical. So that was not a surprise. And the questions were very basic to test your familiarity with the subject. The brainteaser part was unexpected, but I didn't mind as I love brainteasers myself so it was fun.
First question was to calculate the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand in a clock at 3.50 PM.
Second questions, there's a cube made out of 1000 smaller cubes and you peel out the outerlayer of cubes. How many cubes remain.
Sample Answer

internship ETF Trading Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous employee in Frankfurt
Interviewed: November 2015
Date Submitted: Jan 25, 2017
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Applied online. Since I studied abroad at the time I was applying, I only had one phone interview with two differnet people
Interview Questions
How do you calculate the price of an index/ ETF?Tried to explain my thoughts on this issue. That you need to sum up the prices and weights of all components...But I wasn't actually expected to answer the question correct. It was more about explaining your thoughts and how to get to the answer. The interviewer actually helped out when I stucked so I could keep going on my thought.
what are derivatives? What type of derivatives are there? explain them!Difference between options and futures?
What are etfs?
Walk me through your CV?
Why do you want to do your internship in this field?
why did you choose to apply at our company?
why did you choose the country you are currently studying abroad?
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