I’ve got an IB analyst interview coming up with a format I haven’t seen before: two interviewers and myself. How might the dynamic be different? I’ve only ever done one on one. I’m assuming this means I won’t be able to just chill with the interviewers as much.
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What positions are the interviewers? If MDs, probably will be very chill talking about your experiences and why you want to work with them. Have found those to be the most chill - but don't let up and be too chill. If juniors, assume your standard mix of fit / technicals. If VP/D, then that is the grey area (IMO). I've always found rounds with folks at that level to be the hardest to prep for - can really get a mixed bag of characters. Some hardos, some chill. Some behavioral, some that will grill you on mental math / harder technicals. Hope that's helpful!
I've been doing SA interviews and I feel like this is relatively common. In my experience its often a senior person and a junior person. Senior person will oftentimes take the lead and ask most of the questions and then will usually prompt the junior person to ask some as well. I've been told its important to give equal attention to both, as the senior one will make sure you fit behavioral/cultural fit wise, but the junior person's input about whether they would actually want to work beside you is also given a lot of weight.
I've had this in many different combinations; some were like two Analysts, or two Directors, Associate/Director, Associate/MD. Haven't found their approach to be the same across firms, but same rules would still apply - get the technicals right, address both interviewers
Had an in-person 3 on 1 at an on-campus superday... an MD and two analysts. It was fairly intense to say the least.
It was actually going quite well until one of the analysts asked about determining the WACC of a private company. I still give him shit a few times a year about that damn question.
You'll be fine - honestly just try to relax and have fun. Will likely be a combination of one person asking fit questions and the other asking technicals - good cop / bad cop routine.
Is the answer to the private beta thing just using public comparables and and then unlever/reliever to target cap structure?
Yes, indeed! I had read over it a few times but hadn't gotten the question in an interview before. When he started going over how to answer it (I blanked), I immediately realized I had known but was just flustered lol.
Bro this is actually not unusual. Some places, like Moelis, do all interviews like that, from first rounds to superdays
I interviewed at WF and all my interviews were 2 on 1 so it’s definitely not uncommon
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