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Updated Mar 20, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Mar 20, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in New York, NY (took a day)
I had two interviewers, both were VPs of IBD. One of them was friendly and easy to talk to but the other interviewer was aloof at best and seemed largely disinterested. It started off with the usual "walk me through your resume" and was a mix of fit and technical questions. For the technical questions, they asked me to explain LBOs since the work experience I had in my resume involved them. They also asked me what investments/projects should I pursue and how I would explain to my boss what a good one would be.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Mar 10, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Beijing, Beijing (China) (took 3 months)
Why GS?
Why IBD? tell us about what you know. and give us a example how was the current market and how do you think in 2012?
what are your carear plan?
walk me through your resume
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Feb 16, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Beijing, Beijing (China) (took 2 months)
I had two phone interviews during December before attending GS superday in NY in Jan 2012.
The one-on-one superday interviews were help by mostly VPS and several MDs. I interviewed with 3 VPs (all of them are ladies) from BJ office. English and Mandarin are both required during the interviews.
I should have prepared it better even though the chance is little.
Anyway, good luck to myself on the interview with GS new york office next twesday.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 17, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
-Give me feedback on your education background, walk me through your CV.
-What is the price of goldman sachs shares ?
--Tell me an example of a situation where you proved having commercial skills.
-What would you put in a facsheet to convince investors to buy shares of a company that is going to become public ?
-Explain me very briefly what it's hapenning in the financial markets in USA, Europe and Asia.
-Do you have any question for me ?
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 3, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in New York, NY (took 6+ weeks)
I haven't yet completed the interview process--I began with a 20-minute phone interview, and will soon take part in a 3-hour interview in-office with the other applicants for the same job. I'm not sure how the 3-hours of interviews will be structured, but I heard from a current analyst that VPs from the division will interview each applicant as a group for one part of the interview. During the phone interview, I didn't have to answer any questions about the job I was applying for, or the company, and my interviewer was very easy to talk to.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Dec 14, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 (took 4+ weeks)
I was initially called to set up an in-person interview. The person I spoke with was very polite and accommodating. The interview itself was quite challenging. They asked me a ton of questions.
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I Applied Online.
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Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Apr 20, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 in New York, NY (took 3 weeks)
Phone interview was very technical - going through the 3 financial statements and how they connect with each other.
In person interveiws with 5 people. Involved a teaser, realatively simple valuation questions, but mostly character / personality questions.
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The interview consisted of a Background Check, a Drug Test, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Mar 26, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in New York, NY (took 2+ weeks)
I had interviews with everyone in the group and eventually with the head of the group. Very few of the questions were technical. Most were related to my previous experiences, why I wanted to work in investment banking, why I wanted to work for that particular group, etc. I asked them about different transactions that they had worked on.
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I did not negotiate
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Background Check, a Drug Test, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 25, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
a phone interview, mostly ask about behavioral quesitons and few technical questions, and whether you follow the market or not
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted May 4, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2008 in Hong Kong (Hong Kong) (took 2 months)
Prior to the first round interview, I was given a simple IQ test on basic arithmetic and accounting concepts. First round phone interviews covered corporate finance topics such as the three financial statements, DCF and multiples valuation. We had 4-5 interviews on Super Sunday where the focus was often on personality fit. While questions were asked on technicals and also on what was going on in the capital and M&A markets, interviewers were more interested in how I reacted and it was ok to admit I didn't know certain things.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Background Check, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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