Morgan Stanley IBD 1st Round Interviews
MS comes to campus in a week or so. Has anybody been through their first rounds before? Are they similar to GS in that 1st rounds are strictly fit questions or do they like to grill people with technicals as well in the first round? Any advice on how to prepare? Thanks in advance!
It's going to be pretty much a fit test during the first round. Know why MS IBD is right for you and you are right for MS....
BTW, what is your background? major, gpa, experience?
You've been through the first round and didn't get any technicals? My background is: target school, finance major, 3.8 GPA, summer at another BB with offer. Any advice?
I don't know about MS, but at my bank once an applicant has a track record at other BB, we move straight in to technical stuff. Start out by asking you about your internship, did you get an offer, why you haven't taken it etc. Then drill down on experience within internship. What did you do, what did you learn? Any topic you bring up (modelling etc), we will then attack that particular topic with a technical bias. Thought process is if you have spent a summer doing it, you should know it pretty much inside out.
Generally speaking, we don't worry too much about fit questions once the candidate has a track record with an offer. Normally HR does the fit/behavioural stuff, yet when fast-tracked we don't do the HR round. If we do, it's a formality. Just don't say anything stupid I guess.
What do you guys think, will they bring out the Foreman for an on campus first round?
I was wondering the same thing, if you have a BB offer from your summer, will the interviewers immediately switch into Super-Day mode and start roasting you during the on-campus 1st rounds? Anybody have any experience with this?
dude, i just had a first round on campus. i am an econ major with no i-banking experience whatsoever, and they still grilled the shit out of me. it was ridiculous. i tried telling them that i had no background in finance and accounting, and they didn't care. they went as far as to start taunting me when i took more than a second to walk them through the discounted cash flow method.
it worked out in the end, but yeah, they might just pull out lots of technicals during the first round. it certainly happened to me....
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