Interviewed at school career center. Fairly intimidating. Mostly behavioral questions with some questions about inflation and interest rates thrown in. My interviewers seemed more intense than the people I had met at the recruiting events.

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Tell me about the relationship between interest rates and inflation and how does this relate to the Fed's decision yesterday?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took a day)

The interview was at the career center at college. It was a 30 minute interview with basic questions regarding your knowledge about Credit Suisse, about the financial industry and your background. One or two technical questions were asked but again, basic.

No offer was extended which was surprising considering the questions were very generic.

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Explain Polymorphism in Java

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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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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)

I applied in early September. Got a invitation to a formal candidate dinner in October, followed by an interview at the end of October. The interviewer was very professional. I thought the interview went rather smoothly. He asked me several task oriented questions, a lot of "what if's." I think they really try to capitalize teamwork. Did not get an offer. Great interview experience.

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If you were working in a team and one or more of your teammates are not up to par with their performance, how you you address it?

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

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Inappropriate?

2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Dec 2011 in Tokyo (Japan) (took 3 weeks)

First two phone interviews were a lot of fit, and what was going on in the world (ie, European debt crisis). Actually, first 30 minute interview was half current events--in addition to Europe, general questions about Japan's economy/market/general issues. Wanted to know about any jobs not on my resume, like a summer job. Wanted to know what my most "difficult" job (paid or unpaid) was. Time I resolved a conflict with people, etc (have to deal with people a lot in the position). Second interview was only 15 minutes, basically just "tell me about yourself" and pitching a stock, as well as solving a conflict in a position I was in. Both asked "Why finance, why sales trading." Was informed I had two "final" interviews--one was in Japanese (I'm not business fluent so this was difficult), questions about the markets, why finance, Europe and Japan, some about myself. Last one was a video via skype in English, and asked what my least favorite finance class was. It was weird, guy was late to the call.
Whole experience was positive til the last one.

Interview Questions

What's going on in Europe?--follow up, why doesn't Germany want to be part of a "Eurobond"?

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What's the hardest job you've had and why?

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Inappropriate?

3.0

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)

The interview mainly consisted of behavorial questions related to team work. The interviewer went through my resume.

Interview Questions

What are the different sw cycle models?

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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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1.0

Very Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

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

There were three half hour 1:1 interviews. Everyone I met was incredibly nice and open. They encouraged me to talk about myself and previous experience, and walked me through problems. The problems were of mild difficulty. At the end of the process, we had a group challenge. There were two teams, each had about 5 people. We had to bring a bridge that had to meet specific requirements out of duct tape and newspaper. It was a very fun experience. And there was a ton of wining and dining. The company culture is great though I think they could raise the bar on the candidates they accept.

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What is a pivot table?

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Reason for Declining

I had a great summer as an intern but ultimately decided to decline a full time offer. The pay was not competitive. And the level of people that they hired could've been much higher had they set that bar so I really wasn't being challenged enough by my peers.

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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 Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2011 (took 2 days)

The phone interview was the trite list of technical questions,past and current projects. Not too technically deep or testing design. In person interview was better, lasted about 1 hour, covering all topics. Interviewers both on phone and in person were nice.After interview, I got a call from the recruiter all excited, because they liked me. Said it would be a matter of few days before formalities are worked out. 3 weeks later and a couple of follow up calls, no offer, no reject, no news.

Interview Questions

The questions were not too difficult. mostly basic test of Java and IBM-specific BRM tool.

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

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

Briefly ask my interest and goal of career. Ask several basic concepts of computer science knowledge such as polymorphism and time complexity.Asked tortoise and hare problem and applied train problem. It takes some time, so he gave me some hints.

Interview Questions

What is polymorphism? What is the difference of dynamic and static polymorphism?

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How can I figure out whether linked list is cyclic?

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Other Details

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

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3.0

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)

I applied through school career department and interviewed at the school. I just had the one interview and it went well. They told me about their job and proceeded to ask questions about my resume, why I wanted to go into investment banking, etc. Pretty standard stuff with a few brainteaser type questions.

Interview Questions

Walk me through your resume.

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Why investment banking? Why Credit Suisse?

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

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Mar 2010 in Hong Kong (Hong Kong) (took 2 weeks)

started with a group discussion session where 5 people in a group and gave a presentation at last. followed by a 1-to-2 interview asking competency questions (why investment banks, why credit suisse, etc.), then a 1-to-2 interview on technical questions (programming language used, difference between java and c++, etc.). At last there's a programming interview to write code to solve a simple problem.