SVB Financial Group Interview Questions
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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.
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Interview Questions & Answers - SVB Financial Group Examples
associate development program Interview - Commercial Banking
Investment Banking Summer Analyst Interview - Investment Banking
- walk me through the most common valuation methods
- walk me through details of LBO
- in the M&A process, would you prefer to use cash/equity/stock?
- what's the advantage/disadvantage of cash and equity?
- accounting questions
Associate Development Program Interview
I can't remember exactly but I think I said something about communication skills, analytical skills, and then being a fast learner. There really weren't any unexpected questions as the bank is much more interested in fit for this development program instead of your technical background. As long as you know your resume well and have had practice with fit questions, such as the guide on this site, then you should be just fine.
Analyst- Fund of Funds Interview - Fund of Funds
Question was given on the stop.
Associate Interview -
Why lending for tech/healthcare?
How would you determine the credit-worthiness of a company?
Associate Interview -
ACH Operations Analyst Interview -
I then had a second phone interview with the recruiter, which went well. She then invited me in for an all day interview at their offices in downtown Phoenix. I then had three separate interviews, one with the head of HR, one with the head of the Global Payments group, and one with the head of the ACH Operations group. All the interviews seemed to go very well and the interviewers were impressed with my qualifications.
However, I had difficulty coming up with the "why" of wanting to work there. The general consensus seemed to be that I was overqualified the the group I was applying to, while still lacking the technical skills of someone who had a background in banking operations.
Ultimately, I received a very cordial phone call from the head of HR informing me that they had hired someone with an operations background for the position but that they would like to keep in touch with me for further opportunities.
The interview was entirely fit based, there were no technical questions whatsoever. The individuals who worked for the company seemed to enjoy their jobs and were glowing in their praise of the culture of the company during the interviews.
The one thing I would say is that they are a relatively small outfit for a commercial bank so they prefer to hire for positions slightly above entry-level to minimize training costs and downtime.
It does seem like it would be a solid place to work though. They primarily do commercial banking for startups and VC funds in Silicon Valley so there is a very real possibility of a sort of backdoor entry into VC. In addition, the employees that I talked to indicated that it was relatively trivial to transfer to FO positions at some point if you wanted to do that. Most of them just preferred the lifestyle/pay balance of the ops.
A. Working in an important but non-flashy area doesn't bother me. I enjoy improving business processes and making practices more efficient.
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