Finance Development Program Interview Questions
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If a customer asked you how much paint we sell in a year and you had to calculate it on a napkin during a meeting, how would you do that?
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I'd dip (dunk) that napkin in my glass of wine and ask the interviewer if that was close enough to the truth... Less
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I don't understand why a customer would need to know this, nor is it their right/ business to know. And without knowing the cooperate policy, I would direct them to speak to a manager. (Now I'm curious what this scenario constitutes 'paint') Less
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A lot
Tell me about a time when you were working in a team and your opinion was challenged.
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I asked the team member to explain their opinion. No one is perfect, so keeping an open mind when listening to a team member’s response is key. There were times a team member could convince me they were right and other times when I could explain why my opinion may be the better option. Less
Tell me about a time when you received poor feedback on your performance. What was it and how did you handle it?
At a party everyone shakes hands, 66 hand shakes occur, how many people are at the party?
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12
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You can suppose there are n people in the room and think of them in a row. The first one has to shake hands with (n-1) people (because he doesn't have to shake hands with himself). The second one has already shaken hands with the first one, so he has (n-2) shakes remaining... and so on. So you have to sum: (n-1)+(n-2)+(n-3)+...+1= (n/2)*(n-1) Then you have to solve (n/2)*(n-1)=66 and you get n=12. Less
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n(n-1)/2=66 so n=12
Why Siemens? Tell me about yourself
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Out of my over 30 years in Sales I have lead the most successful teams even through 2008 to 2012 which were very rough and tough times here in the states. My team remanded ever dedicated and we came up with creative ideas to make it through that recession. Less
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I have been in Sales and Sales development for over 30 years. I owned my own company for the first 12 years and we ranked number one more than once in our franchise history . I have strong team building skills and motivational skills as a leader. I have been top in my profession for almost all of those years. Less
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I would love to hear more about your opportunities. Thank you for your consideration Less
Where will you be in five years’ time?
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Working for the company
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In the next few years as a human resources practitioner, I am look forward to deepening my skills and taking my knowledge base to the next level so I can contribute even more to the growth of the organization. Less
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In the next few years as a human resources practitioner, I am look forward to deepening my skills and taking my knowledge base to the next level so I can contribute even more to the growth of the organization. Less
Walk me through your resume
what product should we choose to carry if we only have one cube foot storage left in our warehouse?
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Digital media.
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Gift cards
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Whatever carries the highest unit contribution margin. Need a decisioning metric which considers top line revenue along with variable costs. Less
You have a Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and a Cash Flow statement. If you could choose two out of the three statements, which two would you choose and why?
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You can make the SCF from BS and IS
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This is a straight accounting question. You can make Cash Flow from Balance Sheet and Income Statement, so BS and IS is the answer! Less
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the balance sheet is showed all assets of companies and income statement is showed net profit and loss of companies and statement of cash flow is showed the movement of cash flow . Less
There are two stocks with the same expected value, with variance 0.3 and 0.2 and correlation 0.5. What proportion of each stock do you invest in to yield a minimum risk portfolio?
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17/44 of the stock with variance of .3 and 27/44 from the stock with variance of .2 Less
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No, if you can short, the variance could be reduced even further since the stocks are correlated. Less
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Above answers used variance in portfolio variance equation, rather than std. Answer is .386 for security with var .3, and .613 for security with var .2 Less