- Tell me about yourself.
- Walk me through your resume.
- What is investment banking?
- What will you be doing on a day-day basis?
- What product or industry groups are you interested in?
- Do you invest? If so, in what?
- Who have you spoken to within our firm?
- Why should we hire you?
- What do you know about this group?
- Why our company?
- Where do you think the economy is headed?
- Describe your ideal work environment.
- Tell me a joke.
- What do you do outside of school?
- What are your strengths and weaknesses?
- Where do you see yourself in five years?
- How did you decide on UCLA and your major?
- What do you think are the most important qualities an analyst should have?
- What do you understand about the lifestyle of an analyst?
- What are the qualities of a good leader? When have you demonstrated leadership?
- Why should we hire you? How are you different from others?
- What is your favorite subject in school? Tell me about it.
- When deciding to invest in a company, what do you look at?
- What was your role in XYZ committee?
- What is the biggest adversity you have faced in your life?
- Do you have any questions for me?
- Give me a time when you have been in a team situation where people had conflicting interests?
- What do you think you will enjoy most about investment banking and why? What will you enjoy the least?
- What accomplishment are you most proud of?
- When have you demonstrated leadership?
Technical Questions:- Walk me through a DCF.
- What is valuation?
- What are different methods of valuing a company?
- Walk me through the financial statements. How do they tie together?
- How would a change in depreciation expense flow through the financial statements?
- How would a change in LIFO/FIFO flow through the financial statements?
- Walk me through an increase in depreciation expense of 10mm?
- What happens if capital expenditure increases by 10mm?
- Walk me through the purchase of a truck for 10 mm
- When would you issue debt and when would you issue equity?
- How would you normalize a $20m restructuring charge?
- Given such a change in interest rates, what will happen to bond prices?
- What is EBITDA? EBIT? Why are they important? When would you use EBIT vs. EBITDA?
- What is WACC? How do you calculate the growth rate for WACC?
- Where do you get the risk free rate?
- What are multiples? How do you know which ones to use?
- What is 15 x 17?
- Enterprise Value is 100, Equity value if 150, what is net debt?
- For Acquisition vs. Public Comparables, which would be greater and why?
- What are the drawbacks of using WACC in valuing companies?
- What multiples would a company use?
- When would a company issue debt? How about equity?
- What is cheaper, debt or equity?
- What is an LBO?
- What are some measures of cash flow for a company?
- How do you get FCF from EBITDA?
- What would happen to net change in working capital if receivables went up?
- What is our company’s stock price? Is it fairly valued or over-valued?
- You buy an investment for $100m, you sell it for $100m, how would you make a profit?
- What are the different types of debt? How do they differ?
- If interest rates increase, what happens to bond prices?
Brain Teasers:- What is the present value of a zero-coupon perpetuity?
- It’s 9:45 pm, how would you go about finding the angle between the minute and hour hand?
- Two boats are going at 10miles/hour. They are 5 miles from one another. How long before they hit?
- What is the sum of all the numbers between one and one hundred?
- If this table was full of pennies, do you think they could stack up to measure this building?
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