Summer Intern Debt Capital Markets

Status
Intern at
Group/Division/Type
Debt Capital Markets
City
London
Interviewed
January 2013
Overall experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average

General Interview Information

Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months

Interview Details

What did the interview consist of?
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Presentation
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
You start by applying online where you in addition to your normal application conduct two online tests (one numerical and one verbal). If successful, you proceed to a telephone interview with HR. The telephone interview is pretty long ( ~45 min) and comprehensive, although with no hard technical questions. Most questions were pretty generic, such as "Who's your greatest source of inspiration?", "Why Debt Capital Markets?" etc. You also had to comment on some recent major events (in my case the Greece Debt Crisis) but you didn't go in to too much detail. While talking to HR, they will write down your answers, which prolongs the interview and leaves some silent pauses.

At the Assessment Centre (according to HR they had one in November and one in January) you will start by retaking the online numerical test and if you fail you're out. After that, you have four interviews, consisting of one presentation (you get some material to read and have 45 minutes to prepare a 10 minutes presentation) infront of a senior coworker. You continue by having one technical interview and two personal fit interviews. They seem to put heavy emphasis on fit questions since the amount of fit questions substantially outnumbered the number of technical / finance related questions.
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