Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite l'università. La procedura ha richiesto una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Lazard nel mese di ott 2007
Colloquio
On-campus interview
Final rounds at the office (interviewed with 5-6 people)
Asked basic banking questions: Why Banking? Why Lazard? Why you?
Asked questions you can get from vault: How do you value a company? What are the ways? (and gets into more and more detail to see how well you know)
Basic behavioral questions
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
You're a banker and you hate banking -- it'll take you a truck load of money to convince you to be a banker. How much money is in the truck?
test both peronality and some math -> hire view usually 5 qeustions, always includes why lazard why investment banking -> interview might be 3 interviews, 2 behavioral and one technical, maybe prepare some case studies, and market sizing
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Lazard (Londra, Inghilterra)
Colloquio
Basic Behavioural interview questions. Asked about past experiences in life, times you showed leadership and adapted to different situations. Complementary with an online assessment, which all together takes in total about one hour.
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Lazard (New York, NY)
Colloquio
First round phone interview with an AD was mostly technical. Just a quick "Walk me through your resume" type question and then the rest were either accounting, paper LBO, or brain teaser. On the more difficult side, but not unreasonable.