Essential Reading for Investment Banking Interviews

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Investment Banking Interview: Valuation Questions

1. 10 Common Investment Banking Interview Valuation Questions. The rigor of valuation questions asked is also a function of your academic and professional backgrounds. For example, if you go to the Wharton School and are pursuing Finance as a major and managed to obtain an investment banking internship as a freshman/sophomore at a bulge bracket, the rigor of questions will be higher because the assumption is that you have additional knowledge given your additional experience and course of study.
2. DCF Intrinsic Valuation Questions

Investment Banking Interview: Qualitative Questions

The kinds of questions that banks can ask you are not limited to finance. While technical questions attempt to establish baseline knowledge, qualitative questions seek to establish fit.

Since investment banking involves a lot of group work, fit is important in investment banking, and success in this part of the interview sometimes outweighs the technical interview component.

1. Walk me through your resume
2. Why Investment Banking?
3. Addressing a low GPA in an interview
4. How comfortable do you feel working with numbers?
5. Tell me about a time when you showed leadership.

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