Be prepared to face tough time answering investment banking interview questions if you have not prepared your mind and focused on the subject for some time. It is like doing a rehearsal for a play where you need to memorize the lines and also get under the skin of the role.
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Top Tips On Sailing Through Investment Banking Interview Questions
Posted by on August 5th, 2010
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Posted by on July 29th, 2010
It is not hard to figure out why investment banking interview questions are great challenges for the candidate. The world of investment banking is rough hewn and cut throat, but there are loads of adventure and a great deal of fun and excitement at every step day in and day out. It is vibrant world [...]
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Posted by on July 1st, 2010
15 Most Common Investment Banking & Finance Interview Questions
Some of the most common banking interview questions for an investment banking interview include (some are a bit on the tough side but they DO come up very often, increasingly as a means of trimming down the candidate lists as the finance graduate job market gets harsher):
How [...]
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Posted by on June 10th, 2010
When most out there decide they want to do investment banking, they usually go after the big names: Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
But sometimes going to one of these places is not a realistic option. If the hiring market is bad, if you have no previous finance experience, or if you are making a [...]
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Posted by on June 3rd, 2010
If you’ve managed to land investment banking interviews, you need to keep in mind 3 big themes as you go through interviews and try to get a job:
-You can “burn the midnight oil” – you work hard, consistently.
-You “don’t shake the Jello” – you do not make mistakes.
-You “want to be Gordon Gekko” – you [...]
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