NIBC Bank Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (71%)

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4
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Interview Difficulty (57%)

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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.

2.7
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  • Very Difficult

Interviews at NIBC Bank

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Job Title
Group/Division
Location
Experience
Difficulty
1st Year Analyst
Year 2017
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT)
Location Frankfurt
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Easy
Intern
Year 2014
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Mergers and Acquisitions
Location Frankfurt
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Year 2009
Job Title
Group/Division
Location Frankfurt
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Average

Interview Questions & Answers - NIBC Bank Examples

Analyst Interview - Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT)

Anonymous interview candidate in Frankfurt
Interviewed: August 2017
Date Submitted: Oct 16, 2017
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Presentation
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
Applied online, then got invitation for numerical and logical test from a Dutch test provider called ltp. After doing the test, you can choose whether ltp can send the result to NIBC or not. Then, you will have to do on-site interview: 1x with MD, 1x with VPs, 1x paper-based case study that u have to present, 1x HR interview.
Interview Questions
Most Qs were standard: why NIBC, why M&A, current trends in M&A, current market trend, qs about valuation. However, be prepared to answer why you, for example, applied for a specific industry group like TMT. Most of Dutch banks are categorized into sector groups like TMT, industrials etc. While being in one of the sector group, you will not only do M&A, but also the other tasks as well, such as corporate banking, market research etc. The MD also mentioned if you want to do pure M&A projects, then probably you are not suitable for this position.
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Intern Interview - Mergers and Acquisitions

Anonymous interview candidate in Frankfurt
Interviewed: January 2014
Date Submitted: Jul 29, 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
IQ / Intelligence Test
Personality Test
Background Check
Interview
First, the HR will send back an online test as you will get in any IB. If you passed this part, an associate will give you a first round interview. Sadly, I did not passed.
Interview Questions
I was not well prepared, so the questions were hard for me, but if you went through all the resources online, and keep following news. I think it will be fine for you.
First, they will ask general accounting questions. And them some M&A specific questions. Like please describe the process of M&A, and which part do you like most and why? How many kinds of multiples do you know? Which one is higher, Transaction Multiples or Trading Multiples, why?

It was just 30 min, including introductions and stuff like these. The person is very nice, everytime I do not know the exact answer, he will give me some explainations and hints.
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Off-Cycle Internship, M&A Interview -

Anonymous interview candidate in Frankfurt
Interviewed: 2009
Date Submitted: Mar 23, 2013
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
As part of the online application, I completed a psychology, math and reading comprehension test. Psychology had two statements: Pick what suits you best; sometimes both statements were very negative. Math: Mostly simple chart/table comprehension with rule of three calculations; main issue was time/speed, not difficulty as such. Reading comprehension similar: A few paragraphs with a situation and conversation clippings followed by true/false options on statements relating to the above; issue was quickness, not genuine difficulty of concepts.
Got HR call with invite about 1 week later; Had 2 interview dates with three 1on1 interviews each; HR, Analyst, Associate, VP, Director, the whole lot. Interviewed in both German and English
Interview Questions
The banking questions:
- Why M&A?
- Why NIBC?
Technical questions:
- If the CEO of a soccer club wants to increase his stock price, what should he do? Expected answer: "Lower fixed costs by linking expenses to performance/income to lower earnings volatility and reduce WACC"
- How do you account for funded/unfunded pension obligations when calculating net debt?
- What are the differences between German and American financing of workers‘ pensions?
- Explain the use of IF-formulas in MS Excel
Fit/personalit questions:
- If you could go back in life and change one thing, what would it be and why?
- You interned in industry before, not in banking. Why the change? Why didn't you pursue this earlier? Answered how fellow students' internship recounts and a class on valuation sparked my interest.
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