I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at UBS (London, England) in Dec 2009
Interview
9 1:1 interviews in-a-row consisting of motivation questions, past experience and general investment banking questions on products, markets and recent deals.
Interview day ending with 2:1 interviews with head of experienced hire HR consisting of commenting CV, career path, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Are you conscious of the real challenge that UBS is facing at that time? We will all have to work very hard, are you ready for this?
Informal and 50/50 split between behavioral and technical. Consisted of 4 phone calls with various members of the team, starting with director, and then Senior Associate, and then Analyst for the more technical interview.
Standard technicals, but not the best culturally. Asked to walk through M&A transaction, as well as mental math. Asked to talk to previous experiences, particularly past technical experience. Very very serious.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mental math IE- a rope burns from two ends at 30 minutes... etc
2 rounds with one senior and one junior, overall questions are general.
Need some understanding on the sector to be covered. And also some technical questions.
But the chemistry did not went well.
