Elite Boutique interview questions

Can someone give some guidance on how hard elite boutique technical questions are and how big the spectrum is? I know some people with EB internships and cannot imagine them answering complex DTA/DTL or in-depth sector knowledge questions 

For instance how does interview difficulty change as the recruiting process goes on and more spots fill up? I can't imagine someone at the beginning of the process will face the same level of questions as someone competing for the last spot. 

Also, are the quality of EB analysts that much higher than MMs or BBs? Or are the EB analysts just target school kids with the motivation to grind technicals their entire sophomore summer.

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as firms fill up their seats they generally get more selective near the end.

 

Yeah tho some firms will accept anyone they find qualified and just stop interviewing when theyre full. so they dont necessarily think to themselves that theyll make it harder as spots fill up

 

All the EB’s ask hard multi step accounting and restructuring technicals. CVP and PWP tend to combine these with the more “out of the box” questions such as brain teasers, mental math, curve balls etc. Evercore and Moelis are known for long, long accounting. PJT leans more restructuring related. Lazard asks more about industry.

 

bruh ur not gonna be asked restructuring questions in any m&a, generalist, or coverage interview 😭

 

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