If I put DCF modeling onto my resume (I am working towards the WSP certification and will take my exam this week) how hard will I be grilled on technicals for superday interviews? Any insight from those who listed this on your resume and your experience with interviewers? I have no formal IB training but will complete the modeling course.
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I have DCF modeling experience on my resume and I used to get absolutely spanked in technicals, until I built my resume out more. Now I don't get asked too many crazy technicals. I also stay humble in interviews; if you are cocky then you'll get crapped on no matter how much you know because they can run circles around you and they find it fun to screw douchey kids over.
But if I could choose one thing to get grilled on, I'd choose a DCF. They aren't going to pull out too many crazy DCF questions - because if you study DCFs for 8-10 hours then you'll know far more than can be expected for a student to know. DCFs are really the least complicated imo.
This is going to vary by firm and by interviewer though. I got screwed in every way by Evercore and I studied like crazy, for example, but I made it to a Greenhill superday before I ever cracked a study guide open.
I would recommend not explicitly listing it on your resume. You're painting a target on your head that you do not want. Ask me how I know sadboy.jpg
hopping on this (sry if I'm hijacking your thread OP) but I have a HF internship that is much more deconstructed than I had originally thought, and I'm basically doing a self driven (with some oversight of the firm's analysts) program based on stock research .... will having this role on my resume screw me over in terms of technicals?
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