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Rothschild & Sons Interview Questions & Reviews
Getting the Interview 11 Interviews
Interview Experience 9 Ratings
Investment Banking Analyst at Rothschild & Sons
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Oct 2012 – Reviewed Oct 17, 2012
Interview Details – I was a non traditional recruiting school so my first interview was a phone interview. Within a week they invited me up to their superday. There was a cocktail hour the night before and in the morning continental breakfast followed by 4 1on1 interviews with different levels of employees.
Interview Question – different methods to identifying synergies and how each affect the different statements. Answer Question
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Analyst at Rothschild & Sons
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Feb 2011 – Reviewed Feb 15, 2011
Interview Details – Advice: Know your valuation techniques and how to apply them in the real world from anything such as a street vendor to a multinational steel conglomerate.
Interview Question – Which company has a higher cost of capital, Wal-Mart or Apple? Why? View Answer
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Investment Banking Analyst at Rothschild & Sons
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in London, England (UK) Dec 2011 – Reviewed Mar 21, 2013
Interview Details –
Numerical and logic reasoning tests - one hour each, performed in the training suite in the office
First round interview - with member of HR and investment banking associate
Final round interview - with member of HR and MD
Interview Question –
Standard questions in HR interview why do you want to do this, what do you know about us, do you know what you're getting yourself in for, why don't you do consultancy instead?
Technical interview, can you explain the purpose of trading / trans comps, how do you perform them, what are their advantages / disadvantages? how else would you value a company? What excel shortcuts do you know?
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Negotiation Details – Little scope for negotiation
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Global Financial Advisory at Rothschild & Sons
No Offer – Reviewed Jan 19, 2013
Interview Details – Invited to interview for 1st round, then you are supposed to take up the second and final round.
Interview Question – Why friends describe you as " something you said"? Te try to grill you on that. Answer Question
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Summer Analyst at Rothschild & Sons
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Apr 2011 – Reviewed Jan 17, 2013
Interview Details –
2 Interviews on one day
1st with HR, just covering the CV and competency based questions. approx. 30min
2nd interview, senior analyst asking accounting and valuation questions.
Topics covered: WACC, DCF, Multiples, Cash flow calculation and EV adjustments
Talk about current deals and industry developments. Approx. 60min
Basically the interview was straight forward but one needs to answer the questions with confidence. HR interview seemed to be very important. One had to walk through the CV with the ability to answer various questions.
Interview Question – How often and why would someone calculate FCFE instead of FCFF Answer Question
Negotiation Details – No negotiation. Fixed salary since it was an intern position.
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M&A Industrial Intern at Rothschild & Sons
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Milan (Italy) Feb 2012 – Reviewed Jan 1, 2013
Interview Details – In Milan getting an interview is a lot about knowing someone or having access to a good university jobgate (Bocconi is good for instance). At Rothschild you will get two interviews, and you will talk with one or two juniors at a time. Interviews are quite technical, and they will try to scare you with an unpleasant behaviour.
Interview Question – I had to say if Rothschild was more similar to Credit Suisse or to a consultancy firm, whose name was not familiar to me.. I tried to invent, and managed to cope with the challenge Answer Question
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Intern at Rothschild & Sons
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Oct 2011 – Reviewed Nov 28, 2012
Interview Details – Application consists of cover letter and CV. Just one round of interviews, thereof one interview with HR and two interviews with bankers. Typical mix of technical questions and personal fit questions. HR interview is about personal fit only (why Rothschild, why Investment Banking, strenghts & weaknesses, walk me through your CV), second interview was with an associate, only technical questions, cases and some brainteasers. Last interview with a VP, he asked again more personal fit questions and what I am going to expect from the internship.
Interview Question – The banker gave me a balance sheet from a real company he covered and asked me to compute enterprise value. Not an extremely hard task but it was unexpected and it is somewhat more difficult than just explaining what enterprise value ist. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – No negotiations.
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Summer Intern at Rothschild & Sons
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in London, England (UK) Nov 2012 – Reviewed Nov 22, 2012
Interview Details – Very difficult SHL test (1h) and 30min face to face interview, very friendly. In the face to face time, I was asked to present a deal operated in the year.
Interview Question – Give me one word to succeed. Answer Question
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M & A Analyst at Rothschild & Sons
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Paris (France) Oct 2011 – Reviewed Nov 19, 2012
Interview Details – Interview for an M & A intern position. The interviewers were very unpleasant and kept looking at their mobile phones while I was talking. Invited to second stage but declined due to the very poor impression they gave me.
Interview Question – Tell me more about technology industry multiples. Answer Question
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Investment Banking Analyst at Rothschild & Sons
No Offer – Interviewed in Shanghai, Shanghai (China) May 2012 – Reviewed Sep 15, 2012
Interview Details – Applied on-line. Through School's career website. The position is at Shanghai , I simply just submitted my resume and cover letter, got an email when I was in Tokyo, arranged a phone interview next week accordingly, the guy who interviewed me had like 9 years banking experiences straight, the whole process was quite difficult, there is no DCF or accounting or valuation, directly started from "walk me through a M&A, walk me through a LBO".
Interview Question – Really technical heavy, most unexpected question is "tell me which line is the circular reference" Answer Question
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