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The only deadline that has passed that I know of is RBC.
I'm at Ivey and the only deadlines for us have been CIBC and RBC
at Schulich, so far lets see: - UBS and RBC IBD deadline for all offices/positions was yesterday - Think the rest of the CDN banks, Merrill, Morgan, Genuity, Goldman etc are due next week - Interviewed at 1 global office so far (early cause I'm on exchange)
Best of luck to you guys, this summer recruiting is going to be a slaughter
Recruitment cycle for IBD is usually in january? i thought it was in october
Anyone know when offers start coming in? I interned at RBC last summer and a few weeks ago, a VP on my desk said they'd give me an offer to come back (for another summer) but I haven't received anything official yet...
Nevermind; just got notice that I'll be getting my offer this week.
Any news?
interviews have already started going out...
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how'd CPPIB go? was it mostly technical or fit? I just got anal raped by UBS Toronto today.
Anybody hear back from the canadian banks yet? Do they send rejection emails? I've been getting nothing
yeah, I saw your other post about Scotia...they already started giving them out.
Finished CPP interview today, will do ML & Genuity Capital Markets tomorrow, then TD on Tuesday...
CIBC interviews came out too.
For anybody that got an interview, could you post where and some basic credentials?
genuity completely raped me today...omg
it was riciulous
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oh btw first rounds came out today for TD ibanking and CIBC sales and trading
yup, i got called for sales and trading and something else for CIBC.....
didnt apply for td ibanking cuz i thougth they closed the posting...so only got Asset Management..fuck
genuity i guess was standard depending on what you say...
He grilled me on everything I said...Whenever I answered questions he would be like "why do you answer so fast? Why are you so sure?" just to scare me, but i found out in the end all of my answers were right...
He ended up asking me about derivatives question for this i-banking interview WTF...obviously I can't remember black shcoles and put-call parity on top of my head when I practised ibanking stuff all day!
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Just got invitation to BMO ibanking dinner for Tuesday
They started out with the standard walk me through your resume and then straight too technical with some really advanced LBO questions but overall wasn't too bad, oh and MS just called so i guess their interviews are out too.
MS what? MS investment banking? or MS technology?
Genuity KILLED me. RBC CapMarkets was ok tho.
MS Investment banking (summer analyst)
bala, may I ask which school you go to? MS stopped posting that at our school =X.
Schulich
how did you all prepare? did you find that vault guide was enough?
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the vault guide is decent for the states because most of the target schools there are not business programs so they dont have that accounting/finance background. This obviously is not the case for Canada so the banks here are often a LOT more technical in interviews.
I read Valuation by McKinsey & the CFA Valuation book & IBankingFAQ & WSO's technical guide & spoke to every banker that I had relations with and had them quiz me. I also created some models based on 10-k/Q reports.
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Merrill Lynch Superday this friday >=)
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I know what you mean...
Out of the extremely shortlisted list of candidates that are going to BMO's superdayscreening dinner tomorrow, I know of at least 4-5 people that are from UofT. Haha
finally got called by scotia =X
For a 1st round, super day, or offer?
1st round..lol
ML Final round on friday is 9am for me =X
did they call or email? My phone ran out of batteries and I'm at work lol
call
I just got email for CIBC ibanking for wednesday
but also CIBC ibanking pre-interview social tomorrow 5:30PM - 8:30 the BMO ibanking prescreening event is 6:00pm - 9
they're literally happening at the same time....
FUCK..which one would you guys choose?? I don't know what to say to them too...
just take plenty of "washroom breaks" and hop over events haha
sigh...I said no to CIBC lol
I think that automatically kills the hiring chance.
Anybody here got an interview with Brown and Babcock?
just got called for genuity final round for monday...
really surprised I must say....my phone rang during the interview too lol
Canadian here...go to pretty much a non-target. But I'm very impressed by how well UofT has been represented.
As for me, of the 30 places I applied, I only got call-backs for 2 interviews; 1 this week and the other next week.
Hopefully I'll do better with the boutiques.
Good luck everyone!
just got called for RBC capital markets ibanking for thursday
anyone else just get the CIBC s&t dinner invite? how can we go to 3 different dinners at the same time?
you can't. You just gotta choose one lol
had my scotia s&t first round today (in montreal), apparently second rounds are in toronto on the 30th.
Oh and PE, i have no clue how many ppl will be there, but I heard they're only hiring 1 LOL...
Did anyone go to the CIBC or Scotia event today?
akalyan how was the s&t, what type of questions? i heard its about 3 i was at CIBC's pub night event for first round candidates, was okay
wasn't as rigorous as i expected. hardest question was about the market for asset backed commercial paper (i'm in engineering so i was a bit stumped here), other technical questions weren't hard at all and behavioural was more or less what you'd expect.
So you gave up BMO? lol how many people went to CIBC?
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CIBC's ibanking today i'd say was the easiest out of all the interviews...the trading floor was ok too, they didn't ask me a single quant or stock question lol
is anyone else here going to Merrill lynch superday this friday?
I just finished my interview with Maple Leaf Capital.. a VERY difficult interview. All technical, brainteaser-type questions
edited to refrain myself from hurting someone's feelings.
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PE, if there anyone stealing our jobs that you need to worry about, its definitely not MFE; queens/ivey are the schools you are competing against.
Just watch lol
CIBC called in the morning, did anyone else get it?
Is that CIBC ibanking or trading?
ibanking
Sadly I only had the lowly RM/CB positions @ CIBC. They said feb 5th is when they're doing 2nd rounds, which seems pretty late.
Congrats to everyone in this post, esp. those worrying about schedule conflicts =P Currently working outside of Toronto, I'm lucky / unfortunate enough to have to do all my interviews over the phone while at work... (missed the CIBCWM 1st round call, and HR said it's almost impossible to reschedule, final rounds are happening on TUE.) Had RBCCM today, TDAM coming up tomorrow.
Just out of curiosity, if given the choice, would you rather choose to interview on the phone over in person?
Thanks & good luck, -R-
so all CIBC ibanking calls are made right?
is tdam final round on tuesday?
I'd interview in person always. The phone doesn't allow for more personable interactions and that would disadvantage me.
anybody get called for 2nd rounds they were supposed to come latest by today
i got CIBC trading call today 12 people are going...its on tuesday
alrigh then guess i didn't make the cut
got notified for BMO final round next Saturday
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BSB doesn't work in the lab. Also, not sure how you can accumulate 4 semesters of calc when some of those programs are for 1 year only. You seem pretty bitter.. and I'd wager the MFin/MFE's who are in the IBanking interviews probably want to work in IBanking.
Who is K Mak? I've never heard of that person before. Hmm...I may not know everything, but I definitely know that you think you know a lot more about me than you really do.
From your comment, I take it that you're also a MFE student in the same work search as everybody else.
The term "technical" is quite subjective, but: 1) The derivation of option-pricing is only valuable for S&T, programming, risk management positions, which are not my targets. I'm sorry, but four semesters of calculus, two in differential equations, and some probability and stats are not going to help AT ALL for Ibanking interviews. If ibanking is not your target, that’s good for you, but I know for a fact that ibanking is the target for MANY (if not, MOST) MBA/MFE students.
1 year of "math courses" and "option pricing" IMO would not be sufficient to build the same skills as investment banking-focused students who have prepared for these concepts for most of their time in University. Even those grad school students that had a BBA or BCom background, it doesn't mean they will have the same course knowledge. Most students from the MBA/MFE programs are either engineers, OR undergrads that didn't set their minds to ibanking until after graduation; i.e., they did not choose to take the rigorous amount of finance-specific courses during their study terms as opposed to those business undergrads that have their minds set already.
Lastly, I'm sorry if I offended you. I will refrain myself from these sensitive topics to avoid hurting your feelings again.
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Adeus, good job editing your ingenious posts after crying so hard. You can wipe your TEARS now. Everything is going to be ok :(
Frankly the courses in undergrad fall short of what you need if you want to excel in banking. From my experience at U of T, you really need to take an active interest in the subject and learn from your own resources. Given that, what BSB says seems reasonable.
EDIT: lol I saw what you wrote haha
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If the point was just to let me see, you would have pmed me. I was assume MFE students would at least know how to use a forum. You obviously edited them afterwards (like the post above) so you dont embarass yourself to people with your ignorance.
On another note - any updates from the Canadian offices of the BB's?
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How about updates on CS and GS TO?
Anybody get a call from them today?
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