Let's say I do not know anything about finance/accounting. How long would it take me (hours/weeks) to get myself prepared for SA interviews.
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10,000 hours
bump, seriously guys
48 more than enough
If you actually got to interview stage without knowing anything about acc/finance then that makes me feel very sad :|
3-4 days in the library, and you'll be good to go as long as you have a solid background on the material. It should be mostly review outside of some of the nit picky financial modeling details. I'd say spend a day developing your story, memorizing anecdotes, preparing a story for every line on your resume, generating responses for the why banking, why us, tell us about our company, weakness/strengths questions...
Once you can hone everything about yourself, it's just like prepping for an exam on the technicals. 4 days 6 hours a day... 24 hours. Now go cram.
Depends how quick you read and what kind of memory you have. I would say 20 hours and you can get most of simple technicals
Think it depends on your audience. Places like moelis were super technical and grilled me on some esoteric stuff.
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