Behavioral Interview Questions

Investment banks add value by efficiently channeling capital from savers to productive enterprises, facilitating asset reallocation through M&A, enabling risk hedging, providing market liquidity, and preserving going-concern value in distress—collectively reducing friction and lowering the economy's cost of capital.

Prepare 3–5 tailored questions matched to the interviewer's seniority—deal-specific, culture/staffing, personal arc, or market outlook—avoiding generic or easily Googled topics, and close with a process question about next steps.

Walk chronologically from school to early experience to pivotal work to your current role, keeping each stop brief and making the transitions show how each step moved you closer to banking.

Build the answer as a CREI chain: banking because you want strategic advisory work, M&A because that is the deal type you want to learn, and Evercore because named conversations and deal evidence prove it is the place to start that path.

Use CREI: state the specific group trait or work you want, explain why a place like that matters to you, prove it with named conversations and concrete examples, then close on how it sets up your banking career.

Walk in with one deal prepared cold: buyer, target, price and implied EV/EBITDA multiple, strategic rationale, financing mix, and a one-sentence view of your own — delivered in about a minute.