2020 has been a tough year for mergers and acquisitions bankers, as Covid 19 has put deals on hold and travel bans have confined rainmakers to peddle their charm to clients on endless Zoom calls, rather than taking them to the […]
Tag: Interview
Cyber Security Engineer Interview Questions: 4 Ways to Prepare
Cyber security engineer interview questions can take many forms, but all serve a singular purpose: Allowing a potential employer to evaluate how well you might protect a company’s employees and infrastructure from cyberattacks. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, which unleashed […]
Investment banks’ interview questions during the pandemic
Interviewing by phone or via a video call has naturally become the norm during this pandemic. As someone who interviews juniors quite frequently, I’d originally imagined that traditional banking interviews would simply move online. In fact, this isn’t the case: they’ve changed in very interesting […]
Interview avec Thomas Rebaud, le cofondateur de la startup Meero
Cette aventure entrepreneuriale démarre en 2016, Thomas Rebaud a seulement 28 ans et décide de co-fonder « Meero » avec un objectif précis : « Simplifier la vie des photographes ». Critiqué par certains, adulé par d’autres, il répond à nos questions sans langue […]
The most important question to ask in your banking interview
When you’ve worked in banking a while, you’ll hear veterans of multiple Wall Street firms say, “They’re all the same, they are all as bad as each other!” But how true of a statement is that really? In my opinion, it’s not […]
The Interview Question You Need To Answer Right: ‘Tell Me About Yourself’
“I bombed the interview.” This was a message I got from a brand new coaching client, we can call her Sarah, and something I hear too often from clients I first meet. Immediately I asked why she felt this way […]
Hirevue interview questions at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan
If you’re a university student who’s enjoying the summer before you go back to school and begin applying for banking jobs, then we have some bad news for you: you’re late. Banks’ applications opened a while ago. And successful students are already […]
The curious and bizarre interview tactics of bank bosses
If you work in financial services, there’s a good chance you’ve been asked a bizarre interview questionor two. Banks, hedge funds and consulting firms are obsessed with cultural fit, and often serve up brainteasers and odd hypotheticals to see how people think on […]
How to dress for a hedge fund interview
Unless you’re out soliciting money from high-net worth clients, the dress code at most hedge funds is rather ambiguous. Most people don’t wear suits, though some do. Others dress business casual or will even wear jeans. A trader at a […]
Every single question you’re likely to be asked at a J.P. Morgan interview
You have a job interview with J.P. Morgan. Congratulations. Now it’s time to get to work. Before you venture into an interview with the bank you need to familiarize yourself with what you might be asked. To facilitate this, we […]