Nomura Holdings Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Go through in detail what ever u work in. Prepare urself in such a way that u can handle every situation. Failure can happen u can get rejected but learn from those. Where do you stand and how much u need to push urself.

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare basics and be confident

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Kinda government job. Job security is there and appraisals are good.

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Not really a friendly process to much grey area

Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: It took me a while to figure it out. Most optimised method is to halving the range of numbers on each guess. Basically a variation of binary search
Tips: Prepare quant methods from Heard on the street

Round: Other Interview
Tips: Be ready for questions on why finance career, are you sitting for any other investment banking firm . It is important you explain to them your understanding on what derivatives are , what asset classes are. If you have background on economics /development theory you can talk about economy like recession,inflation and capital markets.

General Tips: Be very confident. The more you speak will make your interviewer to ask more questions about you. Also express genuine interest in finance by initiating conversation about market and economic current affairs . Be very frank if you do not have finance fundaes. Know what profile your sitting for- Very important.
Skill Tips: heard on the street - just graze it through
Skills: Quant
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: New learning experience. Company has good workload for interns and high expectations from them.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I knew some financial terms through the net and I could talk about it to some extent but the interviewer was an expert and corrected me a few times which made me focus on following questions so that I could answer them to my full knowledge.
Tips: Be prepared for whatever profile you are applying for and be thorough if you want to talk about a certain topic in depth.

Skill Tips: Be sure of yourself and think aloud so that no mistakes are made when solving.
Skills: Approaching a problem
Duration: 2 months
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: I am interested in finance and this internship has offered me a chance to explore and I thank my institute and my company for this.

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I WAS SHORTLISTED FOR NOMURA'S WHOLESALE STRATEGY AND STRUCTURING PROFILES
Tips: MAKE A GOOD RESUME WHICH REFLECTS WHATEVER YOU'VE DONE IN LIFE

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: MY INTERVIEWER WAS A VERY NICE PERSON.HE ASKED ME SOME FINANCE QUESTIONS AND I WAS ABLE TO ANSWER THEM.HE GAVE ME A LOT OF TIME TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AND DIDN'T PUT PRESSURE ON ME.
Tips: DON'T FEEL STRESSED.BE PREPARED ON WHATEVER YOU'VE MENTIONED IN YOUR RESUME.KEEP CALM AND DO WELL!

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: THE CASE STUDY WAS REGARDING A BANK WANTING TO FIX ITS ATM BUSINESS. SOME INFORMATION WAS GIVEN AND I WAS ASKED TO PREPARE A GRAPH/SOME METRICS ON WHICH THE BANK WOULD BASE ITS FUTURE DECISIONS. IN ANOTHER CASE STUDY INTERVIEW I WAS ASKED TO FORMULATE A STRATEGY FOR AN INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL CHAIN TO SETUP ITS BUSINESS IN INDIA.
Tips: BE GOOD WITH SOME BASIC FIGURES LIKE AGE DIVISION,POPULATION ETC.TRY TO ARTICULATE YOUR VIEWS BY PUTTING THEM DOWN IN THE FORM OF METRICS.BE CONFIDENT ON YOUR DECISIONS

Round: Guesstimate Interview
Experience: I WAS ASKED TO GUESSTIMATE THE NUMBER OF AUTOS IN CHENNAI
Tips: KEEP SOME FIGURES MEMORISED LIKE INDIA'S POPULATION,AGE DIVISION, NUMBER OF PEOPLE BELOW POVERTY LINE ETC.ALSO MAKE LOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS.

General Tips: BE A SMART PERSON IN GENERAL.DON'T SOUND UNINTELLIGENT.KEEP YOUR CALM AND BE CONFIDENT
Skill Tips: PREPARE ATLEAST BASIC FINANCE AND BE AWARE ABOUT THE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD.
Skills: FINANCE SKILLS, LOGICAL THINKING ABILITIES
Duration: 8 WEEKS
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: I AM EXTREMELY INTERESTED IN FINANCE AND MORE SPECIFICALLY INVESTMENT BANKING.NOMURA OFFERED ME A PROFILE THAT IS PROBABLY NOT OFFERED BY ANY COMPANY AT THE ENTRY LEVEL.
Funny Moments: I HAD MANY JOVIAL MOMENTS DURING MY INTERVIEWS.

Round: Test
Experience: Divide your time well for each section in aptitude test. Practice well and avoid solving long passages in the beginning. Make logical guesses for the remaining questions. No negative marking.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: ·

College Name: IIT MADRAS