Merrill Equity Research Analyst interview experience

The mix of questions landed on behavioral plus technical, and there was also a small case study to see how I thought through it rather than just talk in abstractions.

Even though I wasn’t surprised by the topics—competencies, some technical angles, and case-style reasoning—the overall feel of the interviews was rough. The interviewers didn’t come across as engaged, and it made the conversations feel more like they were going through motions than genuinely learning about me.

Separately, I also experienced a tougher-but-doable set of questions where the interviewer pushed on my resume and on