Hi All,
I had banking interviews for summer but none of them worked out. Having said that, I feel pretty confident about my interviewing skills now (been working on them over the summer) and have also been networking pretty aggressively. I'm certain that I will be getting multiple opportunities to interview for FT, first yr positions. Hence I was wondering, how much different are the IBSA interviews from when you interview for a full-time role. How are the expectations different?
Thanks!
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I did 1 SA superday and 1 FT superday. For me they were largely the same, and I truthfully had more and harder technical questions in the SA interview. But, in the FT interview they seemed to expect a much more coherent and polished grasp of what banking is, what you'll be doing, and why you want to be a banker.
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