SA Interview at F25, weirdness?
I go to H/Y/P/W and just landed a summer intern Corp Fin interview with a F25 firm. I have two concerns:
-How technical will the interview be? I feel that since they emphasized accounting in the career center post that they will want to ask me crazy questions on it and I'd have to prepare to the teeth. I read on here that Corp Fin interviews are just fit esp for the firm I am interviewing but I am doubting this?
-There was only ONE interview slot offered for the whole school (keep in mind this is H/Y/P/W) so I really do not understand how they are going about this... can someone explain? If I fail their crazy technicals are they expecting to not recruit here or get an alternate?
what are your stats? can you be mention the firm?
Don't worry about "failing" as it's highly unlikely you'll fuck it up.. I've never interviewed for F500 but I can't imagine it'd be anywhere near as difficult as IBD so if you've prepared for IBD internships you should be more and I mean way more than prepared for the F25 one.. Good luck man let us know how it goes
I am not sure I agree with laxmonkey...generally banking interviews are pretty easy as most of the time you pretty much know the questions they are going to ask (valuation incl. mechanics, assumption behind a dcf - discount rate,etc.; changes in the financial statements; mental math; potentially brain teasers; etc.). It's all stuff that pretty much by memorizing the vault guide and reading WSO you should easily be prepared to nail. When i was prepping for banking interviews i just compiled all the questions/answers I could find in vault and on WSO...pretty much every banking interview I had asked questions that I had on my guide - i never got a question that I did not have on my guide and memorized.
Although the interviewers for a F500 may be less douchey/hardasses compared to IBD interviewers, the thing about F500 interviews is that they aren't as standard as banking ones. You may get some of the same kinds of questions as banking but then it can range by company and by type of position. Some may be extremely accounting focused (not just what happens to the fin statements if X changes but more advanced accounting concepts), others may be very "capital markets" focused (particularly for F500 treasury jobs), you can usually expect a MBB consulting like case which if you have never really prepped for one (esp if youve only prepped for banking interviews) can potentially be tricky, etc. So what makes these interviews harder than banking is the fact that they are just not as standardized and predictable so it makes it hard to prep for them. If your interview is for a corpdev group then expect the interview to be very very similar to a banking one (this is really the only exception)...also corpstrat group interviews mimick MBB interviews.
If you hadn't said it was a F25 company I would have guessed you were interviewing for Disney's Corp Dev & Strat group...they only recruit on campus at Harvard, Princeton, and Wharton and usually only hire 1 person every year...
As I've mentioned before on WSO...I work in corpdev at a F500 tech firm in the bay area and started out in their finance leadership program. So I am quite familiar with F500 interviews. Please feel free to shoot me a PM.
Harvard grad, thanks for pointing out a key assumption I left out of my post.. I too assumed this was for a Corp dev type position
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