Canada SA S&T

In years past there's been dedicated threads to everyones progress through the SA S&T cycle in Canada. Since I haven't seen anything I figured I'd make a thread and people can chip in their status, things interviewers told them regarding deadlines, etc.

Canadian banks with S&T:

CIBC (applied, interview on 12th of January)
RBC (applied, interview on 12th of January)
Scotiabank (applied, interview on 9th of January)
National Bank (applied, interview on 12th of January)
TD (didn't apply as fudged deadline, unfortunately)
Bank of Montreal (didn't apply)

OTHERS (management consulting):

Accenture (first round Thursday the 15th)
Bain and Co (was told by friend invites are going out, not sure for what area/job)

Feel free to share anything relevant to the Canada specific S&T SA cycle.

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All first round, yes. Since I'm in Montreal all the interviews - although the positions are all for the Toronto office - happen in their respective Montreal offices not on campus. Then if you're selected for second round they fly you to Toronto.

For Scotia I believe there were 9 candidates (since there were 9 30-min interview slots) and I believe only one is going to Toronto. For the rest it seems like between 7-10 candidates are interviewing. Not sure how many would be going to Toronto for each, but I'd imagine only one or two.

 
Legendary

HR let me choose from 9 time slots. Hopefully your interviews went well.

Thanks, man. All went really well (hopefully the feeling was mutual).

 
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ubyssey

How'd they go? I have interviews with Scotia and CIBC>

Hopefully you haven't them yet. Scota and CIBC were both completely qualitative. You could have had no idea what trading was and it wouldn't have mattered. I basically spent 10 minutes running through my resume, 10 minutes fielding questions, and then 10-15 minutes on just general back-and-forth. Scotia did ask for 3 market events that occurred in 2014 and when you had to deal with a team and defer to someone else. Scotia said all the interviews were done in the same manner (same questions, same amount of time each, etc.) while there wasn't a structure at all to CIBC it appeared. Best of luck.
 
fixedincomekid

Haven't hear back from BMO and Scotia for 1st rounds as of Jan 12. Does that mean my chances are gone at these places?

Might depend on your location. With that said, I was under the impression Scotia interviews all occurred last Friday and that mid-week final decisions would be made for who to send to Toronto (I imagine this is the same for all regions outside Toronto). BMO interviews are tomorrow around here I believe so perhaps you might have more of a shot there still. I didn't apply to BMO, but the National guys told me they were doing interviews all week so if the same holds true for BMO you might get a call within a few days for an interview late in the week.

 

You're right, CIBC was relatively unstructured and more of a conversation based off my resume. Scotia was alright, one market question. Have you heard back yet? I heard back this morning for CIBC second rounds, nothing from Scotia yet but I'll give it until the end of today.

 

Scotia said they wouldn't be doing call backs either way until tomorrow (interviewed Friday) and CIBC said tomorrow as well as they had to put a few people into time slots today instead of all yesterday. Heard back from RBC same day as they did all interviews yesterday. National was interviewing people all week they said so anticipate no calls until late this week.

 

Yes to outside TO as well, I'm on the west coast but may be interviewing for a position in Toronto since they asked if I am mobile. MathOXF, please update as well! Very helpful to know the timelines for each bank.

 

RBC final round in Toronto on Thursday. 14 people, 8 or so positions.

Regarding National Bank, while I was waiting they were doing ib interviews as well so hard to say how the timelines between IB and S&T coincide. Also worth noting most of the interviewers were greeting interviewees in French, so they may have been only interviewing for Montreal, not Toronto, at the time.

For those of you a bit more knowledgable on timelines in the past, do rejections and acceptances get relayed to candidates on the same day? Or are those moving to the next round told on one day, and then a few days later those rejected are told they aren't moving on? Just curious as figured I may hear back (either way) from CIBC tonight, but haven't heard.

Also, for anyone else that applied for a few management consulting internships as well to see if they'd get any bites I was invited for first round interviews with Accenture in a few days.

 

Heard from Scotia this morning - didn't advance to second round unfortunately. CIBC 2nds were today as well. Very straightforward, fewer market questions than I anticipated and 0 technicals/brainteasers/mental math. They said they would notify people in 3 days.

 

Maybe they are running on a different timeline or are behind this year then, at that rate doesn't seem like CIBC final rounds will be until next week.

For CIBC/RBC/Cannacord last year (IB at least) the entire process was in the second week of January (this week last year). First round was tuesday, second / final round and reception was on thursday. I know at the reception there were S&T and IB kids.... so the overall turnaround time was very fast

 

Sorry To hear about Scotia. Is that CIBC position for Toronto so they'd fly you out or on the west coast? Still haven't heard yet either way from CIBC so I figure must have been dinged.

 

RBC finals were on Thursday for Toronto. Scotia were on Wed and Thurs. CIBC and BAML on Friday. Think TD was on Thursday as well (didn't apply). Still no idea about National's timeline.

 

wouldn't be surprised. I've heard stories along the line. However I am also under the impression that they are hiring more interns than there are FT spots; not sure if this is true for this year's SA class

 

Really? How many would they take in a normal year then?

Considering RBC has like 80,000+ employees that number seems low.

 

And keep in mind this is only sales & trading. I'm assuming most of those 80,000 employees are involved in their retail banking business.

 

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