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IBS Mumbai, Mumbai Placement Interview Questions

Updated 31 Jul 2024

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3
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Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Yes, I joined the company

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jul 2023.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Assignment Round

Assignment is for Freshers/ 2 years experience in IB/Credit:
- Mainly 1 Credit Model (Basic Company Analysis
Recommendation:
1) Focus more on Positives and Negatives
2) Refer Published Credit Reports
3) Do a complete web research/News Articles
4) Ensure you also check for its competitor
- IB (Company Profiles, Comps, Precedent transactions)
1. Ensure you design the slide professionally and well.
2. For Public comps, ensure you check the company’s core business are in-line and all the market data are reflecting correct.
3. Enure the EV cal. Is correct and simply mention if exclusion of any (eg. Exclusion of lease from debt which cal. EV)
4. Precedent Transaction: Although Databases are not available, Google Research provides atleast 5-6 deals details easily with multiples. Try to find listed entities deals for that matter, easy to get multiples from SEC filings.

If you are asked to Analyse one company, please include combination of everything mentioned above (Credit and IB both), This is highly recommended for good points

2

One-on-one Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. About the Assignment
  • Q2. Related to Company Profiles, Comps, Precedent Transactions
  • Q3. Financial related questions - Ratios (Definitely), More importantly understanding links of ratio
  • Q4. If Credit - Bond Comps, Basic Understand of analysis of company
3

One-on-one Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. Round with CEO - More about yourself
  • Q2. Gives some case study questions just to see how you think. For e.g. might ask revenue model of hotel industry, manufacturing industry and so on.
  • Q3. Ratios focus and more on its understanding

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for ValueAdd Research and Analytics Solutions Research Analyst interview:
  • Company profiles
  • Credit Analysis
  • Precedent Transactions
  • Bond Comps
  • Comps
  • Financial Modeling
  • Industry
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Mentioned my advice in questions.
Although one thing, be prepared about finance terms, latest industry trends and study good about 1 industry particularly very much confident about
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