Sunrise Securities Interview Questions

5 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (19%)

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.

2.8
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (80%)

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.

2.6
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult
% Interns - FT Offers (14%)

The % of Interns Getting a Full Time Offer chart is meant to provide a realistic estimate of the hiring practices of the company based on the reviews 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 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 reviews). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to the simple company average and away from the average of the entire data set.

Interviews at Sunrise Securities

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Interview Questions & Answers - Sunrise Securities Examples

Quantitative Researcher Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: October 2020
Date Submitted: Jan 16, 2021
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
The first round is a phone interview with a senior quant. I'm told that in the past, later rounds have been group interviews with all the candidates.
Interview Questions
Consider an nxn grid. How many ways are there to color the vertices of this grid red/black so that no two adjacent vertices are the same color?
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Investment Banking Interview - Generalist

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: September 2018
Date Submitted: Oct 04, 2018
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Straightforward & only a few, extremely basic technical questions (i.e. How does a change in depreciation of $10 flow through the main financial statements)
Interview Questions
There were no highly difficult or unexpected interview questions. You may get asked which sectors you're more interested in and why -- be prepared to provide detailed explanations and up-to-date examples to justify. Be able to explain whatever you know of any recent transactions and/or deals the firm has closed. In all honesty, they are not seeking anything too far out of the ordinary from you given that this is an unpaid internship position which undergraduates use to leverage into their summer offers.
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Sunrise Securities Interview - Generalist

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: 2016
Date Submitted: Sep 02, 2017
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Other
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Very simple interview process. You get called into the office for an interview with the President of the firm and it is very behavioral based. I was given an offer on the spot.
Interview Questions
Standard Questions:
Walk me through your resume.
Why investment banking?
Seems like you have CS experience why finance?
What do we do?
Any deals that you have been following
What is your opinion on (deal)?
Which school do you go to?
Why such (school)?
Walk me through $10 in depreciation
Knowledge (very very basic) about SPACs will help?
What industries/companies are you interested in?
Tell me about an interesting experience
Any questions for us?
Ask knowledgeable questions about the firm.
Show your curiosity
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Summer Analyst Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: August 2015
Date Submitted: Aug 28, 2015
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Staffing Agency
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
Drug Test
Background Check
Interview
A friend of mine at a BB referred me to Sunrise saying Sunrise is in need of a couple interns to staff the deals they have going on. Sunrise has always trusted a staffing agency to bring on interns, and my friend put me in contact with this agency. The first contacts I had with Sunrise were all through the agency via email, and two weeks after initiation of conversation the agency decided to put me through an interview with the company.

The interview was a phone interview for about 25 minutes. They offered to fly me to their office in NYC but I was in my last internship in Chicago so I declined and opted for a phone interview. An associate (and the only one left at the time) interviewed me, asked me some commonplace fit questions. Then when I asked her a couple of questions, she got really honest and told me the understaffing situation at Sunrise. I really appreciated her honesty and it really helped me pivot my expectations of the hours and what I can get out of the internship at Sunrise.

Because they offered to fly me in and I declined, we did not have another 2-round interview and they offered me the position about two days after the interview.
Interview Questions
Q: What would you do if you were shrunk to the size of a pencil, and dropped off into a operating blender?

A: I would go as close to the axis of the rotating blade as possible, because relative physics state the speed at that place would be zero, so I could have the liberty to climb my way up, given if it's a standard-issued blender.

Q: What is the difference between FCFF and FCFE?

Q: I see you did research on e-commerce. What do you think of the e-commerce landscape right now in U.S.?
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Investment Banking Summer Analyst Interview -

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: February 2012
Date Submitted: May 22, 2012
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Other
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
I cold-called the company when I was looking for internship positions and sent my resume to someone at the firm. They called me back and scheduled an "informational interview" with a managing director. I ended up going to New York for the interview. The MD was foreign, likely from Eastern Europe. He didn't ask me any technical questions and there was nothing that stood out from what I remember of it. It only lasted about 15-20 minutes. The guy seemed nice but I don't think I connected with him; I was focusing more on trying to understand his accent as opposed to how I responded to his questions/my mannerisms.

At the end, he told me "we aren't sure if we are going to do an intern program this year, but get in touch with me in late March." He gave me his card; I sent a thank you e-mail but he never replied. I never got in touch with him again due to already having another offer accepted. I was pretty unhappy that they had me come to New York for this; it could have been easily done over the phone.
Interview Questions
Tell me about yourself:

I just recited the story that I had been practicing. Honestly, there were no questions that were difficult from what I remember. I'd imagine it would get a little tougher for subsequent rounds, but I never progressed to them.
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