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5 Common Investment Banking Interview Questions That Most People Screw Up

By: Ronald Mitchell Super Mentor (5706 points)
Updated: 10/29/2009
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Below are links to 5 common investment banking questions that most prospective analysts screw up during the interview.  I have interviewed hundreds of exceptional candidates.  The average candidate I interview looks like this:  top 25 university, 3.5+ GPA, finance or accounting classes, strong extra-curricular activity, member of a finance or investment club.  Does that remind you of yourself?  If so, then you need to click on the following links to review the weak and strong answers because 80% of the people I interview do not answer these questions the way they should.

  1. Where did the DOW close yesterday?

 

  1. Tell me a stock you like and why?

 

  1. Describe the underwriting process?

 

  1. Why do you want to go into investment banking?

 

  1. Why do you want to work at our bank?

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Alex Mayan  |  Contributor (5 points)195 days ago

I would not say that "Where did the Dow close yesterday?" is a common question. http://www.InterviewCrusher.com has a lot of really good Investment Interview q more...
I would not say that "Where did the Dow close yesterday?" is a common question. http://www.InterviewCrusher.com has a lot of really good Investment Interview questions. ...less

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Andrea Rice  |  Super Mentor (4316 points)290 days ago

What I love about this is that most people obsess over the technical questions they might get asked, but long before the interviewer gets to the "tough" questio more...
What I love about this is that most people obsess over the technical questions they might get asked, but long before the interviewer gets to the "tough" questions, they kill their chances by doing a poor job of answering the "easy" questions. ...less

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