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Tell us your interview questions (again) and win an iPod!

Have you interviewed for an internship or graduate position at an investment bank, fund manager, hedge fund, or other financial services organisation? We still want to know what you were asked, and we're running another iPod draw to build our existing collection of financial services firms' interview questions .

If you want to be entered, all you need to do is to send us an email at editor@efinancialcareers.com containing the information listed below. All submissions will be treated as anonymous - we won't divulge who you are!

The draw will take place in March, but we'd like to hear from you as soon as possible.

It would be good to know:

1) Which bank you interviewed with?

2) Was it an interview for an internship or a graduate position?

3) Which business area were you interviewing for?

4) At least three of the questions you were asked.

5) At least three of the responses you gave.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

The eFinancialCareers editorial team

Rules:

· Closing date for interview question submissions: 19/3/10.

· Entrants must fully answer all five questions listed above to be eligible.

· Following an independent draw, the winner will be awarded a new iPod nano 8GB, value 120.

· No cash alternative can be substituted for the prize.

· Winners will be notified of the results by email on 26/03/10.

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  • Ru
    Rupert McTaggart
    9 June 2010

    M & A! Way to go with your questions!

    I like your style, I love to attempt to alienate my staff too even before they've finished the interview. Nothing I find gets people more in the mood to work with you than attempting to humiliate them. Ha ha!

    Once I asked a women "how many buttons does your blouse have?" and "how many dates do you go on before the waa waa wee waa?", needless to say I gave her the job but never heard from her again.

    Bloody marvellous, good on you my son! Keep it up!

  • Pe
    Penny
    23 March 2010

    Superman, were those technical questions also asked for the Internal Audit position? What they ask about internal audit position?
    Wish you luck with UBS!

  • Su
    Superman
    25 February 2010

    Interviewed for Technology and Internal Audit at Goldman Sachs for Summer Internship 2010. Had 6 interviews with 10 different people. Most of them were technical (some only technical). Was asked questions involving LinkedLists, C++ Virtual functions, How to optimize Databases involving lots of records, Java-Threads & Collection framework, one brain teaser. Essentially covered every aspect of technology over all the interviews. My suggestion would be to strong in your basics, data structures and good understanding of all the important features of java, C++ and SQL.

    By the way, got rejected for Technology Internship, On-hold for Internal Audit and have an interview with UBS tomorrow, so wish me luck ;-)

  • NI
    NISHA
    30 January 2010

    I recently went for an interview with Barclays wealth for international personal banker role. Question asked by them was Could u explain any difficult situation that u hv tried to resolve? How would u tackle a customer who is annoyed with the new account set up? Cd u tell us abt the career expectations from Barclays? frankly speaking I went for the interview just for the sake of the recruitment agency. As I wasnt really interested in the job and the competitive quetions as far as I knw the reason I am there in my current work is because I am doing it with utmost sincerity and if not they would have already thrown me out of the job. About dealing with complaints in any industry it comes hand in hand that doesnt mean I am pointing out the pessimistic attitude but optimistically told the reality of the situation. As I was told we dont live in perfect world however we might try the best from our side.

  • I'
    I'm in M&A
    7 December 2009

    The question I always ask during every interview I go to is this "right now, at this moment, how many people in the world are having sex?"

    Also, for psychological kicks, the cup of water is always placed outside the interview's reach.

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