UBS NY Interview Advice

I am a third year JD/MBA at a non-target school, graduated from UCLA Cum Laude (Comparative Literature and Russian Literature), have had some legal internship experience with in-house counsel for publicly traded company (thus am familiar w/M+A, due diligence, etc), and have a significant amount of leadership experience (student gov't at the law school, numerous club leadership positions at the b-school).

I searched the threads and couldn't find all the answers to address what I am looking for.

I have an interview w/UBS in NY and am desperate for some tips. What is phone interview like? What are the interviews like? How technical? Anecdotes of experience welcome.

Thanks in advance.

 

Interviews can be entirely group dependant. Given your lack of direct experience, I doubt they'll grill you on modeling, but you can never be too sure. Your best bet is to prepare thoroughly for any type of technical question (fit stuff is easy).

For the specific group I interviewed with (experienced lateral) they expected a certain amount of technical knowledge, so the interviews were very technical in nature (4 hours of technical interviews), as they are a very quant group (in their opinion, anyways). With you, I suspect they might grill you about diligence and maybe some valuation.

Don't underprepare though, think about who you're up against (former bankers, B-schoolers with valuation classes) and prepare to their level.

 

Thanks, GameTheory. Really appreciate your reply. Any tips on where I can find a list / general topic headings of what I need to prepare? I have basic valuation and corp finance textbooks which I will be parusing. Also, is it basically a given that a phone interview is 'fit' questions?

Cheers!

 
Best Response

No, I wouldn't assume that a phone interview is fit or behavioral questions. My 4 hour technical interview was over the phone. The first round will most likely consist of lay-up questions about your background, and then they may go into some technical questions.

It would take all day to list out specific questions. Just make sure you know the valuation techniques (CAPM/WACC/DCF, LBO, public comps, precedent transactions), accounting statements and the effects of any changes, and how the statements are linked.

 

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