William Blair·Investment Banking Analyst

William Blair Investment Banking Analyst interview experience

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Chicago, ILPosted Aug 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was a phone screen that came a few weeks after I applied online.

The questions were mostly the kind of standard fit-and-interest prompts that probe why investment banking and what group I was drawn to, but the interviewer also asked a small set of technical items.

What made the call feel specific was how they tied the technical discussion to real modeling fundamentals. I ended up talking through items like LBOS and DCF concepts, and I was also walked through the logic of what happens to the three financial statements in a transaction scenario. The overall tone was pretty guided—nothing felt like a trick—and I left feeling like I’d answered the finance

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