IB track
Investment Banking interview questions
Investment banking interviews are the most technical of the lot. You get asked to walk through a DCF, build an LBO in your head, and explain what happens to three statements when depreciation rises by 10 — then talk about yourself for twenty minutes.
Any one track is free. No account, no card.
Coverage
What this track covers
M&A and capital markets advisory. Heaviest technical load: accounting, valuation, DCF, LBO, M&A mechanics.
- Accounting
- Valuation
- DCF
- LBO
- M&A
- Markets
- Behavioural
Sample
Five real questions from this track
Straight from the 100 in the app. Each one comes with a model answer, the follow-ups an interviewer would ask next, and the trap most candidates walk into — those stay inside.
- Accounting A company receives an electricity bill for $20 in December and pays it in January. What does it record in December?
- Behavioural Tell me about a time your attention to detail mattered.
- DCF You are discounting levered free cash flow. What discount rate applies, and what does the result give you?
- LBO What is a buy-and-build strategy, and where does the value actually come from?
- M&A How do you tell whether an acquisition is accretive or dilutive to EPS?
Other desks
Interviewing somewhere else too?
Pro opens all 7 for €10 a month — worth it the moment you are applying across more than one desk.
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Make IB your free track
All 100 questions, 30 cases and 15 formula sheets, at no cost and with no time limit.