Prepping for Hard EB Technicals

Current sophomore gunning for EB groups in SF and NY. Have pretty much gotten the 400s and BIWS guides down but am seeing that EB interviews have gotten much harder over the years. Am in our school banking club but honestly not great support and partially cliquey in sharing questions so was wondering if any of y'all have any recs on how to prep. thanks! Will be locking in

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best resource out there imo, got my offer for '27 alr and done and dusted. bless whoever made it

 
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Margin of alpha is such a shit website. I bought it and half the answers to questions were wrong.

 
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respect the hustle. agree with other poster and most importantly practice practice practice. You might know how to solve the question but don't know how shit you sound when you're speaking it outloud - this applies to both technicals and behaviorals. Record yourself and listen to it. Many people hate it but you have to force yourself to do it and then critisize it and improve

 

Guys go enjoy christmas. I don't tell my analysts to take time of to post on WSO cmon

 

Oh yea and since I'm on this post already, make sure you prep industry specific for SF/regionals, e.g., they might be biotech or technology groups. You WILL get asked industry questions

 
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you should look at eb interviews, they have by far the best collection of interviews. I was interviewing for evercore menlo tech and some of the questions were identical 

 

it's not that hard just study ya'll or maybe you guys aren't cut out for the job anyways??

 

Make sure you know M&A balance sheet adjustments (specifically goodwill and noncontrolling interests), and reverse LBOs (they give you a bunch variables including MoM/IRR and ask you to solve for the starting equity cheque, but they will make it a pain in the ass by forcing you to calculate annual LFCF). Reply if you want me to send interview questions from last year.

 

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Make sure you know M&A balance sheet adjustments (specifically goodwill and noncontrolling interests), and reverse LBOs (they give you a bunch variables including MoM/IRR and ask you to solve for the starting equity cheque, but they will make it a pain in the ass by forcing you to calculate annual LFCF). Reply if you want me to send interview questions from last year.

Please send as well, would appreciate some examples of balance sheet adjustment questions and how the banks present the info. 

 

Absurdly expensive yea... I have the guides can DM to anyone that needs it. Save yourself the 100 dollars i can just share. merry christmas

 

Second Capital Interview Experts! Used it for my EVR/PJT/CVP interviews and felt very well prepared - ended up landing an offer at one of the shops. Keep in mind, even if you have a firm's past interview questions you still have to put in the work and go through them.

In my eyes, you get what you pay for so I think the ROI is worth it to land an IB gig.

 

Can I ask how you prepped w the questions?

Did you test yourself using ai mocks or use upperclassmen to help you ?

Trying to figure out a plan for myself

 
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Wow, appreciate you sharing these with us. People tend to gatekeep this type of stuff so kind of surprised it's here. Anyways, Merry Christmas and thanks again!

 

lol but they said it has to be "from the Houston interviews this year" 

 

Ok aside from all this drama going on, I'm actually curious what the answer is. I found the brainteasers online pretty quickly. I got 50% for the tax rate and 1x coverage ratio. Can someone confirm pls? 

 

Um what is going on. I can easily change my identity to VP in IB and claim I'm on the recruiting team. The moral of the story is to treat everything you read online with a grain of salt. The reality is the majority of these threads are students who claim they're already in the field. I highly doubt VPs are active on these threads.

 

brother stop lying to people ... this will be my last comment because i'm traveling and have better things to do with my time. I hate it when people say oh these are the questions because they frankly weren't the questions we asked... we definitely did not ask a simple interest coverage ratio question like that in houston....

 

Dang man you caught me, next time I won't post any more interview questions. Thank you Mr. VP and can you please move me to the next round?

 

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