Firms that only ask behavioral interview questions?
It seems like the level of difficulty of interview questions significantly vary by firm. Has anyone gotten an offer without getting asked any technical questions?
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Not really IB but heard from an intern that Capital Partners doesn't ask any technicals. Crazy difficult to get an interview apparently. I think you can probably get through own interview in a superday without getting asked a technical, but I dont know about all of them.
Baird is very behavioural questions focused.
BAML healthcare didn't ask any techs during sday a few years ago. Don't think the phone screens were that technical either. Might've changed but speaking from personal experience.
I heard GS doesn’t ask technicals anymore really.
the entire idea of technicals is dumb. it’s really pretty easy to memorize this stuff. anyone with 2 hours can read the guide and figure it out. I guess the only point of them is to see if you prepared (which can signify you have a good work ethic and care), but banks are starting to realize that they would rather have employees capable of socializing over intolerable finance Hardos
lmao, would like to see someone try to look at 400 guide for 2 hours w/ no background and then go into a technical interview. what are you saying
lmao I did that and got a gig at GS. the hardest technicals they asked were about the 3 statements and how they are linked. other than that it was purely behavioral
Easy, just be diversity and get racist/sexist benefits.
Are we just listing oxymorons now?
The number of techs you get asked depends on how much they need to vet you to make sure you can handle this on an intellectual level. Two examples:
I went to an Ivy and had a solid GPA along with solid internships where I did techni stuff. Interviewers actually told me that I was really smart and that there was no point wasting time asking techs.
Friend: Went to Vanderbilt and had a not so great GPA (3.5ish) and some IB internships. Got grilled at every single interview in terms of techs. He would often get case studies to do that when I interviewed at the same place, I wouldn't get anything.
Guy....why you like this
Possibly. Some interviewers ask you more technicals if you had good prior experience, less if you did not.
Typically the larger the office/internship program, the less technical the interviews. At least from things that I've heard from my friends, as well as my own experience, it seems that if you get an interview in a hub like New York or London where there are large, established programs the interviews will be easier technically since they have more standardized processes that are run by fully staffed HR teams. Contrast this with an experience interviewing at a regional BB office or an EB, and you'll likely get harder technicals because bankers play a larger role in the interviewing/recruiting process.
Also technicals are only dumb when they're pulled straight from the M&I book. If the technicals are well structured and unique, they can really differentiate a good candidate from a phenomenal candidate.
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only technical if you don't know what you are talking about.
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