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Agreed. know yourself, study the generic behavioral questions, and keep up to date with markets / trends. The extent of difficulty of technicals will probably be talk about a stock you like or give me an investment idea.. other than that you may get a brain teaser thrown at you.

 

That's super helpful! What about make me a market type questions? Should I expect those? Do you know if I'm supposed to go in knowing if I want to do Sales, Trading or Research? Or am I supposed to just express a genuine interest in markets?

 
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I had a markets internship before switching to banking and was in a similar position as you. I didn't know what they would ask, so I studied macro topics, bond math, did a stock pitch, etc. During my interview, it was the easiest process ever. Questions included, Bond math, expected values, books I was reading and why markets instead of banking.

 

Thanks a lot for this! Do you have any recommendations for guides to study from? I have been preparing for IB but got an interview for Markets and I am pretty clueless about how to prepare for technicals. I have a week.

 

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