Lazard·Investment Banking Analyst

Lazard Investment Banking Analyst interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted Oct 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I joined the process through on-campus recruiting, and it started with a first-round interview that felt relaxed and conversational.

Most of the questions were behavioral, with only a couple of basic technical questions sprinkled in. The interviewer was also friendly and shared a lot of information about the internship and the kind of work interns were doing.

After that, I didn’t make it past the first round, and looking back it was clearly tied to how prepared I was for a simple but still specific IB conversation. Even when the questions weren’t complex, they still required a solid grasp of basic concepts like DCF and LBO, and I hadn’t done enough to feel fully fluent.

In the end, the experience didn’t feel hostile—it

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