Finance Interview questions
Hi all,
I am a CFA level 3 candidate. Masters in Economics. Currently working as a Macroeconomic research Analyst. 3 years of exp. I want to change to a role that is closely aligned with Capital markets. Equity, Fixed Income, Derivatives and IB are my prime interests. I am open to any of these roles.
I think I have enough theoretical knowledge and also have some knowledge about markets especially US.
It has been a while since I have given an interview. I would appreciate if you can ask me some questions. If you have a pdf/doc with commonly asked interview questions, much better. I would like to practice a bit.
What's stopping you from buying the WSO guides?
I have no idea how helpful they would be and I can't afford them currently.
assuming you don't get the PE interview guide, ALL of the WSO interview guides can be bought for a mere $150 (IB guide includes networking, behavioral, and technical). CFA costs much more than this, I think you could probably spare $150. If you truly don't have the cash, put it on a credit card and pay it off next paycheck. the WSO guides are going to be much better than anything you get in comments here
wso guides are fine
but if money is any issue, all of it can be found on web with some hustle many different guides (biws, vault, WSP, etc.) and bunch of materials, models, etc. (not the latest version but who cares); also check pages of all those and similar companies on youtube for videos and so on
do your research on wso, there is plenty of information on this subject also if you dont know where to start, read those success stories of monkeys who broke into ibd etc. and how they prepared for interviews, networked etc. - that is a good starting point
How much do the WSO guides change year to year? Does anybody know?
well new ones are being advertised on WSO pretty often maybe go through older posts and see what is the difference between them i imagine there is stuff like "400 NEW INTERVIEW QUESTIONS" and such statements so you can get an idea, but best to ask somebody who compared them
but if you look at it logically, there are new ones released like every year and while they must be improved and richer, i think it is safe to assume that even the older ones were sufficient
@"animalz" Thank you very much for the suggestions. Will look in to it. @"thebrofessor" Thank for the suggestion. Maybe I will buy it next month.
Assuming I will buy the IB prep pack. How long does it take to complete the entire guide?
@"WallStreetOasis.com" @"AndyLouis"
good question, @"asatar", @"computerized", @"black knight", how long did it take you guys to get through the tech guide and/or complete ib prep pack
Can't remember how long it took but very helpful, 100% recommended.
I definitely found the technical interview guide to be worthwhile even as a refresher when I was an experienced hire. You can expect interview questions to focus on your background, why you want the current role, current capital market events, along with all the shit you learned during your 3 levels of CFA studying: financial reporting, different valuation techniques (comps, DCF, precedent transactions, LBO, etc.), multiples (EV/EBITDA, P/E, etc), WACC, CAPM, EV, beta, etc. There are only so many things they can ask you in a finance interview.
Ok. so how long does it take? I don't think I have much time left. 2 days at max.
Assuming this isn't completely new territory, 2 days should be ample. The more time the better, as you can memorize/learn more, but you'll still see a HUGE improvement in 2 days of going through the guides.
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