Houlihan Lokey Investment Banking Analyst interview experience

From the start, the questions felt niche and the numbers were huge—things like working through problems involving terms that even my finance professors hadn’t covered, and doing the math with amounts in the billions or millions. The experience was also sharply competitive: I had three people interviewing me, and the atmosphere felt cutthroat, almost like the interviewers were challenging each other while I answered.

In that same overall stretch of interviews, the technical difficulty stayed high. I remember they began with broad behavioral prompts like describing myself, but then it