Nomura Holdings Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: There are no tests for consultancies so make your resume very different and awesome.
Tips: Have a look at resumes of seniors who got shortlisted or placed in consultancies so as to get an idea of how to prepare your resumes.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: There will be definitely one case study interview for a consultancy.
Tips: I would suggest start preparing from the start of the final year.Prepare in groups and practice regularly.I referred Victor Cheng's videos for studying case studies.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Only basic HR questions were asked.They just wanted to check if you are good fit for the company.
Tips: In tell me about yourself questions, you can tell about your other soft points which you couldn't mention in your resume.Go to company's website and see what type of consultants they are actually looking for and prepare your HR questions accordingly.Make sure you are not taking more than 2 minutes to answer!

Round: FIT TEST
Experience: They see if you can work long hours and travel on weekends.They also ask your future plans.All the questions are direct and the interview hardly takes 5 minutes.

General Tips: Prepare well in advance if you are targeting consultancies.
Skill Tips: Go through company's website and understand what they expect from you.
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Motivation: I wanted to join only consultancy.The brand value of company obviously mattered to me.I got to know how exactly this company is from seniors.All of the above factors motivated me to apply.

College Name: IIT MADRAS

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: A CGPA above 8 would be useful to get shortlisted for an interview, but may notbe necessary. A well-written and edited customized resume helps a lot. It must necessarily reflect an interest and basic knowledge of finance.Interview: HR, finance, tech and math questions are all usually rolled into one round of interview.
Tips: A good understanding of probability and/or statistics and knowledge about currents affairs and trends in the financial world would be to your benefit.A tight grasp of math (quant, especially probability) is required for finance profile. Math Puzzles with variations on the standard ones can be asked.

General Tips: Preparing for CAT would suffice for general practice of quant questions. Do not focus too much on one thing. Selection is usually random. Put fight for math/puzzles and you can score in banks/finance jobs. Finance questions are to test the thought process and not knowledge in finance as such. Probability parts would be covered in finance questions itself. Solve as many brain teasers and probability puzzles you can, you can find enough on the FTP server. Try to balance what you know and be alert.
Skill Tips: ""
College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Interview
Experience: To whatever reply u give they would say that there exists one more company with all the qualities u have previously mentioned that are present in Nomura. They would try to generalize your view and try complicating the situation, In the end they gave me a hypothetical company with all the qualities Nomura has and is better than it and asked whether I would move to it? I said YES!My CGPA was 7.8 and it is considered as less but I have been improving from 1st sem and shown this as how adaptable I have become over a period of time- So prepare for everything; Know your weakness and have valid reasons for itThey expect some Finance in your resume and grill u on that; Resume preparation is a MUST!- It should be explained in IB perspective .
Tips: Be logical, dont be foolish by just repeating your points on and on!

Round: Interview
Experience: Typical M&A case study. The interviewer looks like he is not listening to u he will be chatting/drinking coffee other interviewer will just stare at you.. Be confident on what you say and try to answer all the questions backed by data or assumptions. State them clearly while solving the case studyThey expect some Finance in your resume and grill u on that; Resume preparation is a MUST!- It should be explained in IB perspective
Tips: Listen to Victor Cheng Videos- it's a must!PRACTICE case studies- it doesn't mean that u just read them, ask your friend to be interviewer and start solving the problem.

Round: Interview
Experience: I have drawn the graph and was little confused and trying to understand the logic. The interviewer helped me by removing the two terms and asked its sum, that is when I realized that mod(x-a)+mod(x+a)=2a; So it's a happy ending!They expect some Finance in your resume and grill u on that; Resume preparation is a MUST!- It should be explained in IB perspective
Tips: Prepare basic logic problems and be comfortable while answering the questions; believe that u can get it!

Round: Interview
Experience: They were trying to confuse me in the beginning and it looked like a stress interview; but later they helped me when I am going in the wrong direction. Try to point out all possible factors (write the down!) and explain the reason behind the numbers u have chosenThey expect some Finance in your resume and grill u on that; Resume preparation is a MUST!- It should be explained in IB perspective.
Tips: Know basic figures: like population; working people; old people and popular government schemes,

Round: Interview
Experience: It's a very friendly round. If u have come till this point that means you are selected. they just want to know u more. None my of friends are rejected because of HR round. They just look for confidence and tell you the real problems u generally face in the work and r u okay with it?
Tips: Be normal and be confident.

Skill Tips: "The environment WILL NOT be comfortable but be comfortable and show your confidence"
Skills: Handling Stress situations, Being Logical
College Name: IIT Madras