Piper Sandler·Investment Banking Analyst

Piper Sandler Investment Banking Analyst interview experience

No offer

Easy

Positive

San Francisco, CAPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with something lighter on purpose: a coffee chat / networking conversation with analysts that functioned like a gate to skip a HireVue.

After that, the first round turned mostly behavioral, and the second round stayed largely in that same lane, with a few higher-level technical elements. The technical parts weren’t presented as overwhelming—they felt more like quick checks than a full technical exam.

I left each interview thinking the team cared a lot about how I communicated, not just whether I could answer finance trivia. One thing that stuck with me was how uneven the follow-up experience was after the first round—people were nice, but the waiting itself became the hard part.

In the end, I didn’t receive an offer, and

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