Investment Banking Interview Guide 4.0 – BREAKING INTO WALL STREET

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Here’s How to Gain an ‘Unfair Advantage’ Over Other Candidates in Investment Banking Interviews
– Without Memorizing Hundreds of Repetitive Questions and Answers

• Learn how to pitch yourself like a pro and master the most important question in any interview: “Tell me about yourself” or “Walk me through your resume/CV.”
• Understand the concepts behind the Technical Questions with 578+ pages of instruction, dozens of Excel files, hundreds of practice questions and answers, and more.
• Prepare for “Fit” Questions Efficiently – you can use and re-use the same stories to answer virtually any qualitative question, and we teach you how to do it.
• Test yourself with 17+ practice case studies similar to the ones given at assessment centers, and then test yourself again with 218+ interactive quiz questions.

Gain an Advantage by Quickly
Conquering the Two Topics That Matter the Most
in IB Interviews:

When you cut away all the nonsense, two topics matter more than anything else in investment banking interviews:

1. Your answer to the “Tell me about yourself” or “Walk me through your resume/CV” or “Why are you here?” question.
   In my 10+ years of conducting IB mock interviews, I’ve never once heard a client with a good initial answer to this question.
   That’s why it’s so tough to win offers in investment banking interviews – answer that one question wrong in the first 2-3 minutes, and you’re out!
2. Your ability to answer technical questions competently and prove that you can do the work.
   Technical knowledge is required to win offers. If you can’t explain the financial statements, valuation, or DCF analysis, you’ve eliminated yourself before the interview even begins.

Our Interview Guide is designed around these two critical topics.

Yes, there’s a lot of other stuff in here – “fit” questions and answers, quizzes, practice case studies, industry-specific questions, deal discussions, and more.

But if you answer questions in these two categories like a pro, the rest is icing on the cake.

Highlights of the Investment Banking Interview
Guide 4.0 Include:

• The Quick Start Guide gives you 4-hour, 2-day, and week-long prep plans, so you know what to focus on with limited time. If you have more time than that, great – but get the fundamentals right first!
• Pitch Yourself Like a Pro with one of our 18 step-by-step templates for walking through your background in interviews regardless of whether you’re an undergraduate, recent graduate, MBA student, career changer, or seasoned executive.
• Gain Conceptual Mastery with 86+ pages of guidance on “Fit” questions, including how to prepare and examples of good answers in the major categories. You’ll be able to discuss your strengths and weaknesses, analytical skills, and teamwork/leadership abilities like it’s second nature. Altogether, there are 109+ questions with model answers.
• Discuss Deals and Markets Like a Lifelong Banker with 6 sample “deal discussions.” These discussions correspond to deals the bank has worked on and ones you have worked on. You’ll also learn how to research markets and companies efficiently – even if it’s 3 AM, and your interview starts at 9 AM.
• Get Case Study Practice with our 17 Excel-based case studies. These are VERY similar to the types of case studies you’d encounter at assessment centers in Europe or standard IB/PE interviews. You’ll build 3-statement models, value companies and build DCF analyses, make M&A and investment recommendations, and complete merger models, LBO models, and even a debt vs. equity financing model.
• Crush Your Technical Questions with conceptual explanations and rules of thumb in all the main technical categories: Core Concepts, Accounting, Equity Value and Enterprise Value, Valuation and DCF Analysis, Merger Models, and LBO Models… plus, bonus guides for Industry-Specific Questions (real estate, oil & gas, banks, insurance, and restructuring), Equity/Debt Capital Markets and Leveraged Finance, and Private Companies.
• Each guide comes with full explanations of the concepts, interview questions and answers, Excel files, annotated diagrams, and more. You can use these tutorials to answer ANY technical interview question calmly and confidently.
• Test Your Knowledge with 6 interactive quizzes that cover the core technical topics above – you’ll get a total of 218+ questions and answers, with full analysis of the questions and explanations of why answers were correct or incorrect.

Why This Interview Guide Will Get You Better RESULTS Than Anything Else Out There

The Investment Banking Interview Guide 4.0 takes interview preparation way beyond “regurgitating canned responses” to “mastering the fundamental concepts.”

We also give you multiple ways to test yourself so that you can identify and fix any weaknesses before you step into the interview room.

Memorizing questions and answers will only take you so far because interviewers can always put a new spin on traditional questions and throw you for a loop.

And with more and more candidates preparing using Interview Guides and financial modeling courses, interviewers are doing this more and more.

That’s why we created “Version 4.0” of the Interview Guide – to help you think rather than memorize a bunch of answers:

• You Need to Understand the Concepts – Not Just the Answers Banks and other finance firms now want to see conceptual understanding rather than memorized answers, which is why we give you extensive explanations for all the concepts before we dive into the questions and answers.
• You Need to Practice and Test Your Understanding You can read all the guides you want, but you won’t truly know the material until you test yourself. That’s why we give you 218+ interactive quiz questions and 17 practice case studies in the guide – it’s like practicing in a real interview, but from the comfort of your own room.
• You Need to Customize Your “Story” for Different Roles You need different ways to pitch yourself and convince interviewers that you’re the best candidate for the role – the ideal response differs based on your background, the firm size, and whether it’s a bank, private equity firm, or hedge fund. You’ll learn how to tell your story like a master novelist with our 18 step-by-step templates.
• You Need a Different Prep Plan Depending on Your Time Frame Yes, there’s a lot of material in this guide… but we’ve also created study plans that highlight the most important action steps and the key lessons regardless of whether you have 4 hours, 2 days, 1 week, 1 month, or more, to prepare.

Put simply, this Interview Guide is one of the highest-return investments you’ll ever make in ensuring that you land offers at investment banks and other finance firms.

Take a Look

Module 1: Action Plan and Quick Start Guide

This module will show you how to get the most out of the Interview Guide with limited time, and what to focus on if you have only a few hours or a few days to prepare.

You get a Quick Start Guide with 4-hour, 2-day, and 1-week-long study plans, as well as checklists of everything you need to do before and after the interview.

You’ll also learn how the recruiting process works and what you must do to be a competitive candidate.

• 3 Written Guides: Quick Start Guide, Interview Checklist and What to Do Before and After the Interview, and The Recruiting Process and Differences at the MBA Level and in Other Countries.

Module 2: How to Tell Your Story (Resume Walkthrough Tutorials)

In this module, you’ll learn how to answer the most important question in any interview: “Tell me about yourself” or “Walk me through your resume/CV” or “Why are you here today?”

If you answer this question effectively, all the other “fit” questions will be easy because you can keep referencing your ‘story’ to answer those questions.

If you don’t answer this question effectively, the rest of the interview is pointless because the interviewer will stop paying attention after 1-2 minutes.

• 1 Written Guide: How to Tell Your Story in Interviews.
• 4 Slide Presentations and 4 Videos: Overall Strategy, Undergrads and Recent Grads, Experienced Professionals and MBA-Level Candidates, and IB Exit Opportunities.
• 5 Templates and Executed Examples for Undergrads and Recent Grads: Engineer to IB, Liberal Arts to IB, Mixed Finance to IB, Previous Banking Experience to IB, and Consulting to IB.
• 8 Templates and Executed Examples for MBA-Level Candidates and Career Changers: Big 4 and Accounting to IB, Corporate Finance to IB, Experienced Executive to IB, Law to IB, Back and Middle Office to IB, Military to IB, Equity Research or Sales & Trading to IB, and Entrepreneurship to IB.
• 5 Templates and Executed Examples for IB Exit Opportunities: IB to Private Equity, IB to Hedge Funds, IB to Venture Capital, IB to Other Groups, and IB to Other Banks.

Module 3: Fit Questions and Deal and Market Discussions

In this module of the Interview Guide, you’ll learn how to answer “fit” questions (e.g., your strengths, weaknesses, and leadership skills) and how to discuss deals, companies, and markets, including your own deal experience.

Instead of presenting a laundry list of questions and answers, we focus on the strategies behind answering questions and how to prepare your discussions efficiently. We provide sample answers for the key “fit” questions as well as many examples of transaction discussions – for IPOs and equity deals, M&A deals, and debt deals.

You’ll also learn how to present your work if you have non-investment-banking deal experience, such as client work at a Big 4 firm, law firm, consulting firm, or in a credit risk role.

• 3 Written Guides: “Fit” Questions and Answers, Deal and Market Discussions, and How to Discuss Your Own Deal Experience.
• 3 Templates and Executed Examples for Deal and Market Discussions: One initial public offering (IPO) example, one leveraged buyout (LBO) example, and one shipping/maritime market discussion example.
• 3 Templates and Executed Examples for Discussing Your Own Deal Experience: One sell-side M&A example, one buy-side M&A example, and one capital markets (debt/equity) example.

Module 4: Technical Questions and Answers

In this module, you’ll master all the technical concepts.

You’ll start by learning about the core concepts required to understand everything else: The time value of money, present value, net present value, discount rates, WACC, and IRR.

Then, you’ll move into accounting and 3-statement modeling, equity value and enterprise value, and valuation and DCF analysis.

The remaining lessons and guides cover M&A deals and merger models, leveraged buyouts and LBO models, and more specialized topics such as private companies, equity and debt capital markets analysis, and industry-specific technical questions.

Each guide has “key rules of thumb” that explain the concepts, as well as interview questions and answers and accompanying Excel files so you can test yourself.

The core sections alone have 578+ pages of instruction and guidance, along with hundreds of annotated diagrams and screenshots, making this the most comprehensive coverage of technical questions available on the planet.

• 10+ Written Guides: Core Concepts, Accounting and the Three Financial Statements, Equity Value and Enterprise Value, Valuation and DCF Analysis, M&A and Merger Models, Leveraged Buyouts and LBO Models, Industry-Specific Guides (Real Estate; Oil & Gas; Banks and Insurance; and Restructuring), Equity and Debt Capital Markets and Leveraged Finance, and Private Companies.
• 18+ Excel Files: These files concisely demonstrate all the mechanics, from the fundamental concepts to their actual application to real-life deals.
• Short Video Walk-Through for Each Guide: These short tutorials summarize the most important points for each topic and explain how to use the written guides, questions and answers, and Excel files efficiently.