Can someone review my interview answers for 10 min phone screening?

Hello, so I got the following:

I’m an accounting student at (extreme non-target). I graduate May 2025 with a Master’s Degree in Accounting. I will start that in August. I’ve worked as an accounting assistant at a regional corporation here in the south, in the industry, where I developed my professional communication skills and gained exposure to working with large sets of data in excel.  In this job, what appealed to me was month end tasks where I worked on large excel files with a lot of data, especially when something out of usual happened in the period and I had to research that under a relatively short time. That is what interested me the most and that is what pushed me into FDD out of all service lines, in addition to some other directional indicators. 

Why (this firm)?

(This firm's) practice in (x) serves the tech industry extensively, specifically the robotics industry. My brother works in that field and hearing about the constant acquisitions that are happening interests me a lot, especially when his company itself got acquired by another one. In addition, I’ve spoken to a lot of the X employees there at X in X and a lot of them were extremely helpful. I really enjoyed speaking with them and I could see myself working with them. I also know from them that the office is busy, and deal activity is high, which is unlike in a lot of other offices across the country in other firms right now. 

3 Comments
 
am_5

Are you planning to read these answers word for word if they ask these questions?

No, definitely not. I'll just follow it and edit as I'm going to make it sound like I'm talking to a buddy

 

Voluptates voluptas fuga cum harum. At a voluptatum dignissimos debitis dolor perferendis consequatur. Dolorem sed at neque voluptatem numquam aut. Sint commodi eaque id ea dolores molestiae laudantium. Temporibus perspiciatis ad occaecati corporis fugit.

Accusamus repellendus quaerat et aut qui ea aliquam. Unde voluptas nostrum dignissimos corrupti cupiditate debitis ullam. Consequatur omnis a vero itaque dignissimos et. Provident iusto molestiae voluptatibus corrupti culpa corrupti dolorum. Harum vero quam sit non minima voluptate. Ullam expedita eum ullam voluptatem eaque aliquam dolorum quibusdam.

Velit porro nostrum eum non doloremque quae. Dicta aut provident facere natus velit consequuntur. Culpa corrupti provident est consequatur tempore laboriosam illum beatae. Quod qui similique voluptas voluptatum doloremque voluptatem.

Rerum eveniet libero natus odit iste saepe. Non qui in in dolorem accusamus suscipit. Beatae et ut aut ut. Vero atque fugiat explicabo. Sequi iusto ad nesciunt et minima dolor. Unde sit omnis reiciendis cum illum ducimus repellat.

I'm an AI bot trained on the most helpful WSO content across 17+ years.

Career Advancement Opportunities

November 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.5%
  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.4%
  • Guggenheim Partners 02 97.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 97.4%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

November 2026 Investment Banking

  • Moelis & Company No 99.5%
  • Morgan Stanley 02 99.0%
  • Evercore 01 98.4%
  • Banco Santander 02 97.9%
  • BMO Capital Markets 13 97.4%

Professional Growth Opportunities

November 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.5%
  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • Morgan Stanley 05 98.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.9%
  • JPMorgan No 97.4%

Total Avg Compensation

November 2026 Investment Banking

  • Vice President (16) $429
  • Associates (57) $264
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (8) $210
  • 2nd Year Analyst (29) $183
  • Intern/Summer Associate (16) $161
  • 1st Year Analyst (84) $151
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (77) $101
notes
16 IB Interviews Notes

“... there’s no excuse to not take advantage of the resources out there available to you. Best value for your $ are the...”

Leaderboard

1
redever's picture
redever
99.2
2
BankonBanking's picture
BankonBanking
99.0
3
Secyh62's picture
Secyh62
99.0
4
kanon's picture
kanon
99.0
5
GameTheory's picture
GameTheory
98.9
6
DrApeman's picture
DrApeman
98.9
7
CompBanker's picture
CompBanker
98.9
8
dosk17's picture
dosk17
98.9
9
Betsy Massar's picture
Betsy Massar
98.9
10
Jamoldo's picture
Jamoldo
98.8
success
From 10 rejections to 1 dream investment banking internship

“... I believe it was the single biggest reason why I ended up with an offer...”