Student Interview Questions

6 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (85%)

The Interview Experience is a score from 1 star (very negative) to 5 stars (very positive) 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. If you hover over the various sections of the donut, 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 reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire dataset.

4
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (89%)

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.

3.2
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

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Group/Division
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Experience
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Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2021
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
1st Year Analyst
Year 2022
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Easy
Intern
Year 2020
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2020
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Mergers and Acquisitions
Location Paris
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Year 2016
Job Title
Group/Division N/A
Location Larchmont
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Intern
Year 2014
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Equity Research
Location Boston
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Average

Interview Questions & Answers - Student Examples

Intern Interview - Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: April 2021
Date Submitted: Apr 18, 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
Online video interview first stage. Behavioural questions like why trading and why IMC. Then technical probability question / brain teaser e.g. how many seconds in a year.
Interview Questions
How many seconds are there in a year?
Sample Answer

Analyst Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: March 2022
Date Submitted: Apr 08, 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
first round Interview with 2 members of the team. very fit focused and went over resume and past experiences and asked about related IB technicals
Interview Questions
Asked in detail about my resume, past experiences. Made sure what I wrote was what I was familiar with.
Sample Answer

intern Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: January 2020
Date Submitted: Dec 07, 2021
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Interview
Interview seemed a bit chaotic and interviewers were trying to figure out during the interview what they were supposed to evaluate
Interview Questions
Asking what my plans were if this career doesn't work out.
Sample Answer

M&A Interview - Mergers and Acquisitions

Anonymous employee in Paris
Interviewed: February 2020
Date Submitted: Jun 14, 2021
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Fit questions with HR
1. Self introduction
2. Internship experiences
3. Why France, why not London
4. Why M&A
5. Why large cap
6. Do you know the tasks of intern
7. What do you think makes a good intern
8. Your advantages/Why you
Your disadvantages
9. Your career plan
10. Your hobbies
11. Use one sentence/several words to summaries your CV


Technical questions with Analysts
1. Why buy or sell a company
What is synergy
2. Sell-side steps
3. Can you introduce me the economic balance sheet
4. If you are an advisor of a small company, you can choose only one financial statement to read, what will you choose? What if you can choose two?
5. Impact of 3 financial statements
6. 3 consolidation method
7. Where to find minority interest and investment in associate in the financial statements
8. Explain me EV bridge
What is EV
Where to find stock price for public and non-public companies, what if the last stock price is not normal
How to calculate diluted number of shares, explain me acceleration and dilution
What is net financial debt, why minus CCE
Why add minority interest, why minus investment in associates
Why add pension
Why add provision
Why add lease, what is the influence of IFRS 16
9. What valuation methods do you know
10. How to use trading and company comparables, how to find peer companies
11. What multiples do we use
12. What is control premium
13. How to use DCF
14. How to calculate FCFF and FCFE
15. What is WACC
Where to find E, D, cost of equity, cost of debt
16. How to calculate cost of equity
Where to find rf, rm, beta
Do you know the number of OAT 10ans in France, why it is negative now
17. If we increase debt, how will WACC change
18. How to calculate terminal value
Where to find g in gordon shapiro
How to calculate FCF normatif
19. LBO process? What is the input and output of an LBO?
20. Typical LBO target
21. What is irr, How to raise irr/what create value in LBO
22. Different types of debt
23. LBO is more intrinsic or multiple
24. Which method gives the highest valuation
25. The pros and cons of each valuation method, and you will use which method in which situation
26. Why equity is more expensive than debt
27. Do you know any deals of SG? Do you know any other deals?
Interview Questions
The interview is not very difficult, no unexpected questions.
Sample Answer

Summer Analyst Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Larchmont
Interviewed: 2016
Date Submitted: Jan 28, 2016
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
The interview process was relatively gruelling. A lot of technical questions including valuation, accounting and modelling.
Interview Questions
Can you describe the difference between market value and equity value? What is the formula for goodwill? What happens if goodwill increases by $10 to all three financial statements- income, balance and cash? Walk me through a discounted cash flow model and explain to me how you get to unlevered free cash flow and why. What is working capital and what does it mean? What is a capital expenditure and how does it factor into EBITDA? What are the reasons for different multiples between companies in the same industry
Sample Answer

Equity Research, Junior Analyst Interview - Equity Research

Anonymous employee in Boston
Interviewed: December 2014
Date Submitted: Feb 06, 2015
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Guggenheim came to campus for the first time to talk about the business and answer questions. The next day an invitation was sent out to x amount of students and by the following week, I was in NYC for a 1 on 1 with an MD and ER first year. If passed day one, invited back for day two 'super day'. Offer was extended after super day and letter sent shortly after. Very fast turn around. They mean business and have an office filled with great talent.
Interview Questions
It was conversational, I think since I had extensive experience in Accounting they skipped the Non-Cash related Financial Statement questions. We talked about the markets and I answered a few behavioral questions.
Sample Answer