How long is each interview round, e.g. 30mins or more? How many rounds are there in total? Which portions take the longest? Are there breaks between the interviews? Is there time for them to dig into a variety of personal questions, or is it just "tell me about yourself", "walk me through your resume" and then onto technical stuff, deals and cases?
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Hi, also an intern but there's a recent post on the PE forum that briefly mentions interviews.
I think it's titled "DON'T DO ON-CYCLE IF YOU'RE NOT READY" or something like that. I don't know how to link other threads, sorry. Hope it's helpful
With the way you are talking and given you are just an intern, maybe you should stick to banking for now. You are like the high schooler who wants to start studying technicals for banking!
Can you read? He told him to look up a post that discusses the topic in detail.
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