Here are some questions I was asked (lots of them were prob related to my personal background):
- Why did you choose [my college]?
- Where else did you apply?
- You didn’t get to visit [my college] right? So what did you find about [my college] that was different than what you were expecting?
- How would you compare the culture between [IBank #1] and [IBank #2] during your two internships?
- What did you do during each internship?
- Lets say you’re in your learning team, and your teammate knows nothing in finance. Explain to him about this [M&A sell-side deal at my previous job]- how did you get to the $xxxMM valuation?
- So tell me what are the drawbacks of using transaction multiples? trading multiples? (a follow-on Q to my previous answer)
- So again we’re in a learning team, and your teammate knows nothing about finance. Explain to him about this [VC investment at my current job]
- If you have one year break where everything else (school, job, etc.) is taken care off, what would you want to do?
- Lets go back to high school. What would your best friend from high school say your strengths are?
- How about weaknesses?
- What are the things in your life that you would stop doing, start doing, and continue doing?
- (an essay specific question- a person I wrote about in my failure essay)
- Tell me sth about you that is not in your application that would surprise me
- Tell me sth that is not in your application, a situation where someone who’s senior to you let you down
- What is something that you expected me to ask and you want to answer?
Overall it was a very pleasant experience…he was much nicer than I expected.
