Interview Questions by Function (Banking, Finance & Accounting)

Pending on your profession or functions, most interview questions can be asked which are related to your job or profession. Most of these interview questions require you knowledge and intelligence in your field or profession.
Interview Questions on Investment Banking, Technical Finance and Accounting
What would you do if you weren’t going into investment banking?
What was your quantitative GMAT score?
How do you value a firm?
What is an interest rate swap?
What is DCF? How do you calculate the discount rate?
How do you determine if a stock is undervalued?
How would you price the stock for an IPO?
What is the yield on a zero coupon bond trading at par with 10 years to maturity?
What is working capital? Quick ratio? Free cash flow?
Tell me what you know about [the firm].
Tell me about the cultures of the different firms.
How are you going to make your decision if you get more than one offer?
What do you want to do and why- M&A, capital markets, or corporate finance?
The bond market is going down; what is the stock market going to do?
Where is the industry going? What is the market doing?
What are the headlines in today’s Wall Street Journal?
What do you read regularly on the industry?
Why choose investment banking? Why pick this bank?
Tell me what an investment banker does.
Tell me the difference between commercial and investment banks.
Why pick corporate finance as opposed to sales and trading?
What are your outside activities? Why would you be willing to give them up for such a demanding job?
What role do you play in group situations?
What would you do if offered drugs as part of the deal? (or other ethically-oriented questions)
Sell us on your quantitative skills.
How smart are you? How do we know how smart you are?
If we made you an offer today, would you take it?
What did the Dow, S&P, or NASDAQ close at yesterday?
What stocks do you follow and why? (Be prepared to discuss the stock’s performance.)

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