Summer Associate Interview Prep, MBA candidate

This needs to be managed carefully especially if you go to a target school. If you go to a target school do not flaunt these connections to your school's recruiting team. If you meet with a family connection maybe have them email someone on the recruiting team vouching for you. If you don't go to a target school, then it's a bit more useful to use these connections fully.

They aren't anymore technical (and often are less, IME) than summer analyst interviews. BBs in particular are pretty easy technically. MM are a little more technical in my limited experience with EBs being the most technical. BIWS will cover everything you need to know for BB and MM interviews, for sure.

Follow whatever guides your school's Finance/IB Club provide and you should be prepared. Technicals aren't bad at all at most banks--walk me through a DCF, if you overstate depreciation, how does it impact the 3 financial statements, etc...

If you nail those, some firms will continue to ask you progressively harder questions to see how far they can push you, but for the most part if you confidently and sufficiently answer a few technicals, they'll move onto the fit/behavioral pretty quickly.

If your background is super non-finance (i.e. you didn't even work in an office before but were military, an actor or athlete), where there is a bit more skepticism on your technical abilities they may push you a bit more.

For nailing MBA interviews, being able to sell yourself on fit and convince firms that you'll accept if given an offer play the biggest role. Technicals are more of a yes/no check the box--they won't win you an offer but can lose you one.

I don't have anything to add but you'll probably get a better turn out response wise if you let everyone know what kind of prior experience you had before B-school. That way those who have gone through associate level interviews will have a good idea what you already know.

vault guide and google search man.. you have some serious work to do.

With no relevant work experience, you'd really need to nail the case interview if you get one (we put all our associate candidates through a case). Basically, if given an example company, you need to be able to identify the questions you would ask to extract key data. Basically a test of your knowledge of what makes a good business. Sorry if this seems abstract, but I've never administered or gone through our case interview.

Do you want specific interview questions from IB's? There are technical questions and specific questions here.

Thanks Bumble.

I'm a finance / econ undergrad and the terminology doesn't scare me. DCF, CAPM, etc.

However, most sites have very generic information. I'll check out the site you posted.

Just did my rotations for some BB Summer Associate roles and it was all behavioral, except for generic "Where do you see the market going".

That's going to depend on your school's OCR. For the M7 MBA programs almost all of them have compressed first and second rounds in mid to late January (i.e. interview in a Monday/Tuesday and have your super day later that week if you get the invite).

But as far as I've heard from my friends at other schools most non OCR processes have had second round invites earlier this month with only a handful still outstanding. But even in those non-OCR processes many are still a school dependent.

Summer Associate?

For our first years, offers have already been given.

Depends on your school and when interviews are. I'm on the recruiting team for a school that does interviews the first week in January on campus...we sent our invites out a week ago. If your slots are mid January, you likely will hear this week or next.

If you are a 2nd year why are you interviewing for summer associate?

Are you sure this is an interview and not an informational? It's a tad too late for FT associate hiring and a tad too early for summer associate hiring, at least at my school. All of our first rounds are on campus...