Interview Questions
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1. Walk me through your resume.
2. Why Investment Banking? Why Citibank?
3. How do you value a company (particular to investment banking)?
4. What were your fall term grades? What was your GMAT score? Why didn't you do better in your English class?
5. What qualities do you think are important for this industry? Do you possess those qualities?
6. Do you understand the structure of your job requirements?
7. What is your greatest weakness?
8. Why should we hire you?
9. What do you do for fun?
10. With what other firms are you interviewing? Are you also interviewing with consulting firms or for opportunities outside Investment Banking?
11. If I gave you an offer right now would you accept?
12. Rank the firms with whom you're interviewing in order of preference.
13. Describe a current event in the market.
14. What questions do you have for me? (Always have at least two questions prepared per bank.)
Personal Goals & Accomplishments 1. What made you choose your undergraduate school? Why did you major in ___?
2. To what other business schools did you apply? Which ones accepted you? Why did you not choose them?
3. What was your favorite class so far?
4. What are your 5-20 year career plans?
5. What is your proudest accomplishment? What’s your most challenging personal experience?
6. Tell me about a time when you led a team or took responsibility either at school or in your prior job?
7. How do you work in teams? Are you a leader or a follower? Give me an example where you were successful in both roles?
8. How do you handle a non-contributing team member? What do you add to a group when you take on a team assignment or group task?
9. Describe a failure. What did you learn from it?
10. How do you handle stress?
11. Who has influenced you the most, besides family members?
12. What is one word that describes you best?
13. Tell me a joke.
14. If you were a vegetable - what would you be?
Financial Questions 1. What is a LBO? Why lever up a firm?
2. Why would two companies merge? What major factors drive mergers and acquisitions?
3. Why might a company choose debt over equity financing?
4. What did our firm's stock close at yesterday?
5. What is the Dow Jones today? S&P? NASDAQ? 20-year or 30-year T-Bonds?
6. Where is the market going? Bond, equity and foreign exchange?
7. Where do you think interest rates will be in the next 12 months?
8. Where is the market going?
9. Tell me three items on the front page of today's Wall Street Journal.
10. Do you personally invest in stocks? Which ones? Why?
Accounting Questions
1. Walk me through a typical cash flow statement, balance sheet, or income statement.
2. What is EBITDA?
3. Company X's net income is ___; how do I compute their cash flow?
4. What is the difference between the balance sheet and the income statement?
5. What is goodwill? How does it affect net income?
6. Why would a company choose pooling over purchase accounting?
7. What is working capital?
8. What are deferred taxes?
General Questions 1. How does your past career qualify you for a position in investment banking?
2. Rank the firms on Wall Street. Where do you fit? Who is our competition? What differentiates our firm? What are our strengths / weaknesses?
3. Describe a typical day for a full-time associate.
4. What is your greatest concern about Investment Banking?
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