Associate

Status
1st Year Associate at
Group/Division/Type
Investment Banking
City
New York
Interviewed
November 2013
Overall experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average

General Interview Information

Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month

Interview Details

What did the interview consist of?
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
Had dropped a resume a while back (MBA) HR reached out to me and scheduled a phone screen

Phone Screen

Questions
-Resume Walk
-how does summer internship in X prep you for IB? extension how have you prepped yourself for IB
-walk me through this project from the summer
-Why IB
-Why our group
-Why DB
-Corporate Finance valuation techniques what are they? (DCF, Comps, Precedent Transactions
-walk through a DCF (calculate FCF, WACC, is that unleveled, levered, etc.)
-deal you've followed
-who else are you interviewing with? (this was very late in recruiting cycle)


SuperDay
-if I were a company looking to save cash how could i? (cut me off after i mentioned cut receivables and inventory)
-role on project from summer
-what goes on a football field (valuations, walk me through DCF)
-what’s the first thing you would do on day 1 if you got the job?
-how would you handle an analyst


HR gathered the candidates, sent us out of the building and notified us we could be getting a phone call in the next fifteen minutes if we were going to be asked to move on to final final rounds

Final Final rounds
I and 2 other candidates were brought up as the final 3 candidates interviews with MDs and group head

All questions were resume and experience based


Notes

questions are resume based, so know everything on your resume inside and out especially key numbers on deals



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