M Klein and Company Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (68%)

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3.5
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  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (98%)

The Interview Difficulty is a score ranging from very difficult (red) to very easy (green) generated based on the Interview Insights at this company.

The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. The higher the number, the more difficult the interviews on average. 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 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.

3.8
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

Interviews at M Klein and Company

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Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2022
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location New York
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
2nd Year Analyst
Year 2018
Job Title 2nd Year Analyst
Group/Division Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT)
Location New York
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
Intern
Year 2020
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Generalist
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2019
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Intern
Year 2020
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location New York
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2019
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Generalist
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Very Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - M Klein and Company Examples

Intern Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: July 2022
Date Submitted: Sep 27, 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Online application and then a phone screener and afterwards an in-person superday with 5 interviews, mix of technical and fit
Interview Questions
Most difficult question asked was a stock I was following, but they really dug into my thesis surrounding it. Like absolutely grilled me, expected me to know exact rev and profit figures etc.
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Summer Analyst Interview - Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT)

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: February 2018
Date Submitted: Jan 28, 2021
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Moved pretty quickly through the process with their OCR team as they were one of the first to start interviewing. Interview process consisted of an initial phone screen which got progressively more technical, super day happened a couple of weeks later
Interview Questions
Interviewer went in deep on merger-model questions:
- Discuss a deal I saw recently
- Strategic reasons behind this m&a
- Accretion/dilution and WACA vs. Seller's Yield (interviewer with intentionally difficult numbers)
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Summer Analyst Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: March 2020
Date Submitted: May 12, 2020
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Two phone screens (mostly technical with one "tell me about a time" sprinkled in) and superday (more behavioral with one not-too-bad technical interview)
Interview Questions
There were basic accretion/dilution questions for all-stock deals where you had to compare the P/E ratios (or stock yields) and determine whether the deal would be accretive or dilutive

Would you rather have a 10% increase in price, decrease in cost, or increase volume?

Questions about metrics like EV and equity value and which pairs with EBIT, EBITDA, and net income and then a scenario where they listed the multiples in ascending order and descending order and asked which was correct (EV/EBIT should always be higher than EV/EBITDA)
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Summer Analyst Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: March 2019
Date Submitted: Apr 29, 2020
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
applied through OCR and then received a pre-interview phone screen with light technicals, technical first round phone screen and then a generally behavioral superday
Interview Questions
Pre-interview questions were the standard guide questions ($10 D&A, valuation, multiples)
1st round had some unique technical questions (margins, using metrics to get to EV, etc.)
Superday was primarily behavioral but had a few technicals (circularity in LBOs, multiples, etc.)

Pre-interview questions were the standard guide questions ($10 D&A, valuation, multiples)
1st round had some unique technical questions (margins, using metrics to get to EV, etc.)
Superday was primarily behavioral but had a few technicals (circularity in LBOs, multiples, etc.)
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Investment Banking Summer Analyst Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: February 2020
Date Submitted: Apr 28, 2020
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Applied through campus career website and received first-round phone screen shortly after that lasted 20 minutes.
Interview Questions
Interview was a phone screen that was a few quick behaviorals at first such as why banking and why M Klein. Make sure to chat people before as it will really help you as they take commitment very seriously. Then the interview moved over to more technical as they asked basic accounting, valuation and merger model questions. They move early so make sure to study up early as they are very simple but can throw you off guard. Questions will get more advanced as you move along and they will drill deeper.
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Investment Banking Summer Analyst Interview - Generalist

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: March 2019
Date Submitted: Apr 10, 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
Interview
Overall the hiring process was good. They came to campus for a couple of recruiting events, and then extended phone interviews which consisted of 45 minutes worth of technicals and 15 minutes of Q&A/Walk me through your resume type questions. Then there was a half-day superday at their NY office where I had 3 behavioral interviews and 1 technical interview.
Interview Questions
1. Describe a common example of circularity within the 3 financial statements.
2. Difficult situations deciding between using EBITDA or EBIT multiples
3. Deferred revenue questions and how changing it impacts the 3 financial statements
4. Different enterprise value scenarios involving making distinctions between non-operating and operating assets
5. Asked about when P/E ratios are appropriate vs. not appropriate
6. If you are the CEO of a company and find $100 on the floor, how does that impact your company's EV if you give that $100 to your firm?
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