Raymond James Financial Investment Banking Analyst interview experience

The questions were heavily finance-focused rather than trying to learn my personality, and the pacing made everything feel intense. I only got one opening-type question where I could talk about my background and experience, and then the rest of the time was basically them testing technical knowledge.

I was asked a series of questions—six of them centered on building a stock pitch, along with questions about the advantages of an IPO. I also got asked about the differences between equity and debt issuance. Even when I tried to structure my answers clearly, the breadth of what they wanted made