Intern

Firstly, SEO held on-campus events to let students learn more about the program and get acquainted with the SEO model of mentoring and training. Afterwards, applicants who complete an online application and proceed to the next round are invited for a 1 on 1 interview with one of SEO's staff members. It is possible to get denied even before the interview.
In the interview there are the basic technical questions: walk me through a DCF, why SEO, why investment banking. Then there were the behavioral questions such as walk me through your resume etc... Once these are done then the fun really begins. They ask the critical thinking type questions. I was asked at least 4 of these. These questions can range from how many table tennis tables are sold in the US every year to how many pennies do you have to stack to get to the top of the empire state.
Despite these questions taking some time to answer, I was able to do it and he overall interview was successful. 5 months later, I was contacted that I proceeded to the next round and was told that I had to go through another Skype interview. These questions were more of the accounting and financial statement questions. These were of the type: how do you link financial statements and how depreciation increasing in one period might affect net income in that period. They also asked questions about the news so make sure you keep up with more recent M&A activity. After that was done, I got my offer in my e-mail a week later.