How do you prep for the super hard EB interviews (EVR, MOE, CVP, Qatalyst, etc)
So I just went through the recruiting process, and nailed the bulge bracket and behavioral interviews I was given. But when I got into the room with Moelis, I was wondering why the technical questions were literally 5x harder than what I was used to. The BB interviews were so much easier.
So my question - to the people who got an EB offer, have you just been practicing this for so long? How do you nail the questions, where do you get your practice? Just confused as to how someone can pass that Moelis first round I was given since the questions were unlike anything I've seen before.
Can you list the questions you remember getting from moelis?
I got some fucked accretion dilution question - no calculator
Smth about estimating cost of debt with comps. Needed 3 ways to estimate cost of debt
Walking through the 3 statements of M&A with goodwill
Generally just stuff i had not seen before
These are basic questions wtf are you talking about
I’m at one of the banks you listed. The key is having true technical understanding / mastery versus memorizing questions. The second part is exposure to a wider variety of questions.
Instead of only using the 400 guide, I also read Rosenbaum and Pearl, the WSP Red Book, various online resources / Quizlets, and studied homemade guides that upperclassmen at my college had previously made.
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If you’re testing more complex things outside of the guides, you are more likely to test for questions people haven’t seen before, which necesitates real understanding to be able to answer. So yes, you’re testing for understanding.
do you mind sharing the homemade guides lol
use
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congrats on shilling your week old prep tool
Moelis was easy. I found EVR / CVP / PWP hard af. All mental math and brain teasers, on top of very complex accounting.
Know how to build a model inside and out. Build full 3 statement models with every single line for 3-5 different companies, and you won't really have to prepare for any interviews because you'll just intuitively know how everything flows.
who do i have check the model?
Check if the balance sheet balances. Claude should be good enough now to check that everything flows right as well. Use consensus figures to see if you're generally in line with consensus, and if you aren't see what went wrong.
Mostly just common sense and looking for massive outliers
Just “studying” in the traditional sense isn’t really enough, and people don’t always realize that until it’s too late. The basic guides are helpful for getting the fundamentals down, but everyone is using the same ones, so you’re not really separating yourself. At the EB level, they definitely expect you to already know that stuff and go beyond it.
In my PJT superday, I literally only had four technical questions, but none of them were straight out of the common guides. They were a bit more layered, or just asked in a different way that forced you to actually understand what you were talking about instead of just repeating memorized answers. Sometimes it was even a new topic or idea entirely, which you wouldn’t have seen if you only stuck to the standard guides. That’s where people definitely get tripped up, since they’ve seen the topics before but haven’t practiced them in a realistic way.
Can you DM what questions you got at PJT?
How do they even decide what questions they'll test if its not on any guides?
nobody knows and its a crapshoot every year. they leak the questions or give hints to the kids with good personalities
LOL, nothing is new or ground breaking in Finance. Bankers are not geniuses!
"New" in the sense that they're not on the guides
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Can I dm you?
Can't if you're anon
congrats on selling your own prep tool, you tool!
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the EB interviews are not as hard as you are making it seem. They look p bad compared to BB interviews because BB interviews don't really test anything.
Yea you could use a million resources everyone is naming in the comments but honestly do the BIWS advanced guides and really understand everything you're reading. Capital Interviews if you want to try some harder questions. Besides this its just business intuition (stuff like operating leverage)
Personally feel like the BB interviews not being too technical narrative was true pre-COVID but post-COVID definitely more technical (obviously not to the level of EBs)
Sure they ask “merger math” and it’s literally all stock deal, accretive or dilutive question. I think people on here exaggerate a lot how hard technical interviews actually are. People do bad because they memorize things and are unable to think through questions. Personally felt the questions I had to think most critically (which is a stretch) about had nothing to do with standard technicals, just scenarios involving operating leverage and some bond math. I don’t mean this in a, oh I’m so smart I don’t find anything hard, sorta way. That is not true. It’s just that preparing for technical interviews just really not that hard. Doesn’t even matter what resource you pick, if you’re thorough with whatever you pick, you should be good. I think the hardest thing is probably rx technicals, specifically certain bond questions which can be asked in ways meant to trip you up, which if you don’t intuitively understand how it all works you can get tripped up. Source is have unfortunately been through too many processes
Can confirm Paribus prep is legit. Used it when I went through recruiting and it helped alot for the off the guide techs during my evr super. Their question bank is insane. Ofc also read through BIWS and your club's q bank if you have them.
Comment below says it was created a week ago though?
At evercore but shill need 20 dollars a pop lmao
Paribus - domain literally created 8 days ago but claims dozens of people have landed offers "X months ago" using their platform - and even hilariously claims "5,200+ students"
IB Tech Prep - domain literally created 9 days ago
drillcore.ai - domain created December 2025 via ICANN lookup, but claims 12,000+ students have paid already
marginofalpha.org was flooding the forum with similar posts last year
tino app, etc... the list goes on.
Can we stop with these blatant shilling posts, please...
Simple domain look up on who Dot is or lookup Dot icann can show all this vibe-coded interview prep slop is vaporware and these posts trying to shill them indirectly and pretend no one can see through it are just absurd.
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