Investment banking recruiters want to seriously test their junior recruits during the interview process. More often than not, this involves the infamous ‘brain-teasers’, but these are gradually being phased out in favour of a combination of competency-based and a new style of ‘situational’ interviewing.
This doesn’t mean that some silly questions are not being asked. This, according to a variety of sources, are the strange interview questions being asked to juniors across various investment banking divisions this year.