Thomas Weisel Partners Stifel Financial Interview Questions

4 total interview insight submissions

Interview Experience (91%)

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4.7
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Interview Difficulty (86%)

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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.

3.3
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% Interns - FT Offers (66%)

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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.

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Interviews at Thomas Weisel Partners Stifel Financial

Year Position Location Group/Division Experience Difficulty
2013 Associate Tel Aviv N/A Positive Average
2013 Associate Tel Aviv N/A Positive Average
2014 Associate San Francisco Investment Banking Very Positive Average
2013 Investment Banking Summer Analyst San Francisco Very Positive Difficult

Associate Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Tel Aviv

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

In-person

Length of Process

4-5 months
Interviewed: February 2013 Date Submitted: Nov 06, 2021

Application

Phone Interview
Presentation

Interview

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Sample Answer

Associate Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous employee in San Francisco

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Employee Referral

Length of Process

1-2 months
Interviewed: 2014 Date Submitted: Apr 29, 2015

Application

Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Personality Test

Interview

Multiple phone interviews followed by two rounds of on-site interviews, including modeling exam

Interview Questions

Pitch me a business as if you were a sell-side advisor.
Sample Answer

Investment Banking Summer Analyst Interview -

Anonymous employee in San Francisco

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

1-2 months
Interviewed: February 2013 Date Submitted: Mar 13, 2013

Application

Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Other

Interview

I applied online in the beginning of December. I contacted the HR directly and applied according to how she told me to apply. At the beginning of January, I received an email that said I had been selected for a first-round phone interview. The email also specified that I had to choose the location where I wanted to work; I chose San Francisco because I was interested in tech, it was closer to where I live than NY, and I thought I had a better chance there. The phone interview was with an analyst, and somehow I passed that to end up in the final round superday (received email less than a week after). The company flew me to SF, and I had three interviews: 1-on-1 with a director, 2-on-1 with analysts, and 1-on-1 with an analyst. The director and last analyst were very laid back and asked mostly fit/resume questions, but one of the analysts in the 2-on-1 grilled me hard on technicals and accounting. I felt very good though because I connected well with the director, and I left the superday interview smiling. They later called me when I was on the train back to the airport with an offer.

Interview Questions

Most difficult in phone interview:
Which valuation method would you use when you are working with a client and why?
I responded with DCF because it is most fundamentally sound in terms of projecting the firm's value. However, the analyst responded that multiples is the best method because it's easier to understand and less assumptions are involved.
Most difficult in superday interview Part 1:
Let's pretend you worked at this company when it was working with LinkedIn. How would you value a company if it had negative cash flows, there weren't any comparable publicly-traded social networking sites, and it was the first software company of its kind to be valued (i.e. no precedent transactions)?
I responded that
1) I didn't know the answer to the question because I was still learning about that industry and its particular valuation methods, but
2) if I had to guess, I would probably use a multiple that incorporated number of users, e.g. growth in users, and then apply it to a percentage estimation of how many of those I would be able to monetize in a future change to the company's business model.
Most difficult in superday interview Part 2:
Okay, but that's only one method, how else would you value the company?
Once again, I said that
1) I was still learning, but
2) I could assume that I might be able to take a multiple off an online dating company (first thing that came to mind), and apply it to LinkedIn. My reasoning was that an online dating company connects people in a similar way to how LinkedIn would connect business people.
Sample Answer