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PMD Advisor at BoA Merrill Lynch
Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 16, 2013 New
Interview Details –
Typically a- you go to a career night or B- You apply online and they like your resume.
Then you will be interviewed by PMD coordinators, possible other advisors and managers. If they really like you it could be very easy.
Interview Question – Typical Behavioral, Situational, and why do you want to do this job?? They will probably ask you how you build a business and what you know about the role of an advisors or sales person. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – There's little negociation on salary because the program is set. You are either a young advisor and end up on the lower grid because its easier or you are more experienced and you go to the higher grid, higher salary, but much higher sales goals.
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Intern at BoA Merrill Lynch
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Wayne, PA Jun 2011 – Reviewed May 14, 2013 New
Interview Details – Interviewed with the Wayne, PA office. Manager, HR and Financial Advisor were all very nice and followed up on their promises.
Interview Question – Casual conversation, just tried to get to know you. Very pleasant and nice people. Not many of the standard questions were asked. Answer Question
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Summer Analyst at BoA Merrill Lynch
Declined Offer – Reviewed May 5, 2013
Interview Details – Submitted through the online portal --> two phone interviews --> three in-person interviews in NYC
Interview Question – Cosolidation accounting Answer Question
Reason for Declining – Another offer
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Technology Analyst at BoA Merrill Lynch
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Feb 2013 – Reviewed Apr 18, 2013
Interview Details – A 30 minute behavioral phone interview and I was called NYC for a series of interviews. There were three 30 min interviews where 1st was asking about previous experience and Course Projects, the second was technical with sql join questions and Binary tree questions, the 3rd one was a scenario based presentation. Overall the interview covered all the parts and I liked the whole process.
Interview Question – They gave a scenario regarding a system that processes the internal and external financial data and asked to propose a solution through a 15 minute presentation. View Answer
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Financial Advisor - PMD at BoA Merrill Lynch
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Sep 2012 – Reviewed Apr 7, 2013
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meet with assistant sales manager.
take written tests to see if you have a sales apptitude.
prepare a business plan draft for how i would develop my own client base.
meet sales manager.
meet branch manager
get offer
Interview Question – what are some of your weaknesses as a salesperson? what could cause you to fail as a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch? Answer Question
Negotiation Details – They offered me a lowball amount. I countered with market value for my MBA and earnings history and current salary with current employer. they gave me a best and final offer which was double the lowball amount.
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Technology Analyst at BoA Merrill Lynch
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Los Angeles, CA Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 28, 2013
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Applied through college job site, got selected for an on campus interview. One 30 minute interview, lots of SQL questions and data structures questions.
About 2 weeks later i got an email to do a final on site interview at one of the HQ in Cali. It's a close drive so I didn't have to book a hotel or anything.
The on site round had 3, 30 minute interviews.
1st interview - Brain teasers, logic questions, SQL questions
2nd interview - Whiteboard C++ programming, dealt with Data structure (Binary trees, c-string manipulation)
3rd interview - More function design with data structures, and difficult SQL questions
Then after the 3rd interview, they gave me a written test with more programming questions before I left. The written test took me about 45 minutes to finish. After, I went home!
Two days later, I got a call and they told they were offering me a job!
Interview Questions
- Lots of questions on SQL... I.e. Indexing, how to index, how to normalize data sets, etc. Answer Question
- Standard data structure questions, i.e. Questions on Binary tree traversals and string manipulation (Reverse a string, reverse a sentence) Answer Question
- Questions on classes and OOP, i.e. Design me a class that can work for to store and maintain strings (A dictionary) Answer Question
- Standard Behavior questions. I.e. I have many applicants being considered for this position, Why should I pick you? Given a problem, how would you go about solving it most efficiently? Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Did not negotiate the offer. The offer was very... very lucrative. Accepted the offer within a few days and will be starting in the summer.
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Wealth Management at BoA Merrill Lynch
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Mar 31, 2013
Interview Details – The interview process was pretty plain and simple. I just emailed him saying that I am interested in the Internship process and they offered me a position.
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Global Markets and Risk Management Intern at BoA Merrill Lynch
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Feb 2013 – Reviewed Mar 23, 2013
Interview Details – Applied via school and got an on campus interview (at school). Basically just asked about your resume and generic behavioral questions. Got called back for a second round about two weeks later and went to a hotel for their 'superday.' There it was 3 one on one interviews with 2 behavioral and 1 technical as well as a presentation where you read a problem and proposed your solution.
Interview Question –
How does C and Java deal with memory? (malloc/garbage collecting)
Write pseudocode for reading in a string mathematical operation (2 + 3 * 6 for example) and calculating it, returning a numeric value.
SQL joins
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Financial Solutions Advisor at BoA Merrill Lynch
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Jacksonville, FL – Reviewed Mar 21, 2013
Interview Details – I was called by a recruiter after they saw my resume at my colleges career center website. They had me take a prove it exam which has some math and economic questions, also had to do a simulation online to see how good you can multitask. If you pass these two test you get an interview. They ask for fingerprints and FBI background check and credit check.
Interview Question – The interview questions were pretty easy just wanted to make sure your a people person. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – no negotiations
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Field-Based Financial Solutions Advisor at BoA Merrill Lynch
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Sep 2011 – Reviewed Mar 19, 2013
Interview Details – Was contacted by a recruiter and spoke with her for about 10 minutes. Scheduled an in-person interview with a regional sales manager, who wasn't even going to be my direct supervisor. He looked at my resume for about 30 seconds and then just chit chatted with me about my hobbies, life, etc... Didn't feel like a typical "interview." Before I knew it, he was shaking my hand and said he'd be in touch. The interviews were scheduled 45 minutes exactly, back-to-back. Was called within 3 weeks with an offer. Then waited about 5 more weeks for training to begin. At training, I saw the guy who left as I walked into my interview and the guy who was waiting as my interview wrapped up. The guy who interviewed us ended up becoming the RSM for a different region and we got a new one who had never spoken to any of us before training began.
Interview Question – Nothing was difficult at all. It was not a typical interview. It was more of a "getting to know you" type of conversation. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – There was very little negotiation. The base salary and benefits were already determined, and I accepted them. The location I picked was also granted to me.
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