Goldmans Equity First Round - Summer Internship
Hey lads,
I am going for a first round Interview with GS on friday in London. Equity Division. technically speaking, Not only I have no idea about what the hell Equity is, but I don't know all these finance stuff. I am kind of interested though and want to learn more about it. I am studying Computing.
Last summer i was accepted in credit suisse, deutsche bank and UBS, I managed to work for UBS for a summer internship in IT!!
Please & Please & Pleasee Advise me what to do. I have the Numerical, Verbal, Logical skills but absolutly no finance skills !!
Thanks
Just to say, I'm familiar with Interview questions like give me an examples of bla bla, where you worked with bla bla,.. or challenging times,.. or what motivates you and so on.. Its just this division I am applying which i have no clue about !
Look at and study the GS website along with every other large I-banks. It is spelt out very clearly.
Also check out vault.
Once you learn what the equity division is about- read up on the current status of the equity market. FT, WSJ...anything you can get your hands on. Most offer free trial subsriptions on line.
Have you done an AC in London before??
Yea, I have been to AC before. I am familiar with the procedures. How do i get access to the vault without paying ?! also, any another website that can help me ?
p.s. i'm reading FT now !
the real question is do you have mass or not?
in seriousness. be yourself. equties aren't that technical and they're looking for fit
I will be definitley... or hopefully !! but its just the fear that I get inside the room and the first thing the guy asks me is the frigin liquidity of the market, or some wierd accounting calculation which I have no idea about.
hmmmmm.. if some of these came up,.. do you reckon i should say I don't know ? or just bullshit on them ?
I'm reading a book called "All you need to know about the city" am i being misguided? is it the right book too read having known the interview is on friday ?
Hey Guys,
I have just came back from "the" interview. It was alright I guess.
at first there was an interview, for me it was 1v1 but generally it is 2v1. the questions were fairly general. overall, the more you know the better. first round interview is about YOU. then i had quantitive and verbal test. the verbal wasn't that satisfying, but the numerical was alright.
Wish me luck, and I'll wish you luck too =)
hi Neutrino,
good job with the interview.
i am just curious as to what type of questions they asked about "you"? what was the quant and verbal like? what type of questions? any examples?
thanks.
ok,..
I went to the guy, shook hands with him and he offered me a drink of water. I said yes, and as I was about to pour it, he started his first question. this is how it goes.
what i mean by "you" is he looks at your CV and literally asks everything you put there !! Make sure you know what you wrote on your CV lol.
Verbal was,.. they put passages from FT and tell you to answer them... was abit tough for me :S/
Quant was much easier, ( most people think otherwise ) and. it was Graph and you know, stuff you see online test,.. %50 harder.some of the quant questions are killer, specially as you have like 40 sec on each question, a word of ADVICE,.. DOn't SPEND TOO MUCH TIME ON THEM. SKIPS AND GO BACK TO IT.
Hope It Helps.
btw, I have Second Round coming up. Any Advice ?
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