First year graduate analyst

The first round will consist in a phone interview with mainly motivational questions:
why rbs, why dcm, why you,...
A few behavioural questions surch as tell me a time when you had to lead a team,...

Then it's straight to the assessment center which is very classic:
Group interview: you're a group of 6 people and each person has to study two topics and then present them to the group. At the end, you have to decide as a group which two topics are the most interesting. Tips: keep in mind the bank you're applying for core competencies (there's no point in selecting hybrid financing if the bank you're applying to has no experience in this area) as you'll ultimately be pitching those two topics to a md.

Presentation: you present individually the two topics to a fictionnal md who wants to be briefed on that client and what opportunities there is

Individual interview: classic competency based and a little bit of technical

After the assessment center, if you're successful, you go to an "open day" which is a day where you'll attend desks presentations, have chats with top management... It really looked as if we weren't assessed during that day but out of the 12 people that were there, I know of at least one who didn't get the offer...