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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 2 days)

2 half-hour phone interviews each with an associate in IBD.

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Why IBD?

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Recent deals?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took 6 days)

First round interview on campus. One-on-one with Barcap VP. Some fit, but more technical. Passed through to second round via phone call from HR next day (late in day). Final round was following Monday, also on campus. Back to back interviews with senior personnel. Focused mainly on fit, conceptual understanding of finance.

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What would you look for when potentially doing an LBO of a grocery store?

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Tell me a time when you led a team.

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Pitch me a stock.

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Why banking? Why Barclays?

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If you could only have one of the three financial statements, which would it be, and why?

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Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Nov 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 4+ weeks)

The process begins with the online application. I received an email alerting me to schedule a phone interview which took place one week later. During the phone interview, I spoke with a member of the recruitment team about my motivations and was asked personality questions only. It took a while to hear back, I would say about 3 weeks. I was notified by email again that I was invited to the assessment centre. The centre took the entire day starting with a group case exercise, a presentation in which the group is to present its findings to 2 Managing Directors followed by a 15m question and answer session. The rest of the day consisted of 1-1 interviews. These varied between technical, motivation and personality. I got case studies and brain teasers. Overall, the people I met were gems and gave me a genuine desire to work with them. I received an offer from the team that same evening. Great experience.

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A case question regarding granting a loan to a corporate client based on their bp.

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.

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3.0

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2011 (took 4+ weeks)

2 phone interviews and then Superday with 8 MD's.

Interview Questions

What other firms did u apply to in Asia

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Negotiation Details

They were pretty flexible with my location. Yes, consider offer, but choose HK.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)

First round interview was very easy. They asked a couple simple math-related questions, and a few behavioral questions. Final round interview consisted of two interviews. The first was behavioral with easy questions, where I was told that being a summer intern in investment banking would be mostly working with powerpoint all summer and that I would be worse than just "at the bottom of the totem". The second interview had more difficult market-related questions.

Interview Questions

Suppose you are given 200 balls: 100 white and 100 red. They are to be placed in 4 jars, then 1 jar is chosen randomly, and then 1 ball is randomly chosen from that jar. How do you divide the balls among the 4 jars to maximize the probability of drawing a red ball?

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 days)

They took us to the Four Seasons to get to know the recruiter and the interviewers. The interview consisted of two half hour sessions. The interviewers were extremely nice and friendly, but certainly misleading. I was told I had high chances by an interviewer who thought I was "extremely interesting," but did not receive an offer.

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What are you strengths/weaknesses?

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What is the state of the economy right now?

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2011 (took a day)

Interviewed first round on campus, was invited for second round with the firm this past week. Rare that I-banking final rounds only last an hour, seemed like a lot of other kids were there.

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Why Investment Banking?

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What you estimate Walmart's revenues are?

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Dec 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)

Barcap's representatives are very nice in general. If you have questions don't hesitate to reach out to them. I contacted one of our alumini and he actually called back and gave me a mock interview before I went to the actual one. On the interview, I was asked to walk the interviewer through my resume first. He jumped in when he saw some interesting parts. He did a lot of talking along way too, so time passed really fast. Also asked why investment banking. Also a stock pitch and two simple brain teasers. I was pretty lucky to have an easy interviewer.