Cowen Investment Banking Analyst interview experience

I remember starting with a quick conversation that basically walked through my resume and explained the role, and then moving into basic questions that were more about fundamentals than anything exotic. In my interview, that meant topics like depreciation and what EBITDA is.

A theme across my rounds was that the early conversations were mostly behavioral, with only limited technical questions sprinkled in. There were times when the technical part felt almost like a confirmation of basics—enough to show I understood the vocabulary—while the bulk of the attention seemed to be on personality