I'm a sophomore at a target recruiting next semester. Besides the BIWS guides and Rosenbaum and Pearl, what materials should I be using to study? The BIWS guides especially don't seem to be too helpful, and some of the questions just seem too easy to be asked in interviews.
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R u using the BIWS 400Q guide or the actual paid BIWS interview prep course? The 400Q guide is just a sample and not supposed to be the most comprehensive. The paid one is insanely good, best prep course out there, and trust me, I've used all the interview prep guides (WSO, WSP, etc.). WSP "red book" is decent as a supplement to BIWS and RXinterviews.com is pretty good as well for RX.
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Were the conceptual materials written guides, videos, or both? I prefer video lectures so hoping this great material is available in that format. Both of you are convincing me to pull the trigger on this course
hmm, i googled rxinterviews.com and it was a dead end, mind elaborating?
My bad, the full URL is https://restructuringinterviews.com. It's the ultimate RX guide and pretty cheap as well, only $30 iirc.
If u don't wanna pay, I recommend https://www.wallstreetprep.com/knowledge/ultimate-guide-financial-restr…. Its a free RX primer from WSP, albeit a bit surface level but enough to get u started. There's also free PDF's of Distressed Debt Analysis by Stephen Moyer (aka the RX bible) and the HL RX case study that are good intro's into the world of RX too.
WSO has lifetime access to our IB Interview Course (+12 month $ back guarantee) and we're investing heavily this year to improve it even more.
It also gets you a free 1yr access to the WSO Company Database which is a massive DB of interview questions, salary data, review by firm/group, etc...) AND it will soon get you free access to the WSO Template Library (soon to be announced) which is going to be a game changer (community wins long term :-).
Since we've been collecting that data in the WSO Company DB for over a decade there is a lot of gold in there to help you prep too...
Stay tuned!
Patrick
My friends used Matt Tings Peak frameworks guides and have had great success with it (believe its cheaper as well).
The Peakframework IB recruiting course has been out for less than a year so it hasn't really established a solid track record yet and I've personally never tried it. However, if it's anything like his PE recruiting guide, which I heard is elite, then I assume his IB prep course is rock solid as well.
(I just checked pricing and Peakframwork's IB recruiting guide is $347 while the BIWS one is $197.)
Nonetheless, the BIWS course is still the gold standard at this moment considering it's been out for over a decade (damn, Brian old af). I've networked with IB VP's that have told me they used BIWS back when they were recruiting.
If you don't know the basics...
BIWS is too easy? If even all the advanced questions and modelling tests are too easy for ya as a soph you'd better be Aswath Damodaran speaking
OP has a point, recruiting for soph summer I mosty got asked about stuff that’s on level with M&I advanced sections (which M&I says it’s unlikely you’ll be asked about for SA interviews). It feels weird to think that the junior summer technicals will be easier
well, it's decades since Brian was in banking and the field has gotten way more competitive since then
I think you’re the wrong biws the m&i guide isn’t supposed to teach you shit. The biws course is
I paid for BIWS when I was interviewing for FT positions a decade ago. No way that's not comprehensive enough. And despite how long Brian has been out of the industry, it's not like there's been groundbreaking innovations in how IB analyst knowledge works over that time.
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WSO has lifetime access to our IB Interview Course (+12 month $ back guarantee) and we're investing heavily this year to improve it even more.
It also gets you a free 1yr access to the WSO Company Database which is a massive DB of interview questions, salary data, review by firm/group, etc...) AND it will soon get you free access to the WSO Template Library (soon to be announced) which is going to be a game changer (community wins long term :-).
Since we've been collecting that data in the WSO Company DB for over a decade there is a lot of gold in there to help you prep too...
Stay tuned!
Patrick
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