Bank & Round Mode: Filter OFFERGOBLIN by Firm and Interview Round

Q: What is Bank & Round mode on OFFERGOBLIN?

Bank & Round mode lets Accelerated users filter the OFFERGOBLIN question pool by firm (39 banks) and interview round. The adaptive engine still selects within the filtered pool, so candidates get the next bank-specific question they most need.

Q: Which banks does OFFERGOBLIN have questions from?

39 banks across bulge brackets (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, BofA, Citi, Barclays, Deutsche Bank), elite boutiques (Evercore, Centerview, Lazard, Moelis, PJT, Houlihan Lokey), middle-market, and regional firms.

Q: When should I use Bank & Round versus GOBLINMODE?

Use GOBLINMODE for daily reps. Use Bank & Round in the week leading up to a known interview at a specific firm. Most candidates pair them: GOBLINMODE most days, Bank & Round when an interview is on the calendar.

Q: Is Bank & Round on the free tier?

No. Bank & Round is Accelerated only ($40 per month). The Free tier includes GOBLINMODE and GOBLIN100 with a 7 questions/day cap.

Q: Are Bank & Round questions current interview leaks?

No. They are candidate-reported questions sourced across each firm's interview history and normalized into the OFFERGOBLIN format. They reflect the firm's question style, not unauthorized disclosure of live interviews.

Bank & Round mode lets Accelerated users narrow the OFFERGOBLIN question pool by firm (Goldman, Evercore, Centerview, etc.) and interview round. How it works, when to use it, and why it pairs with GOBLINMODE.

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Direct answer

Bank & Round is OFFERGOBLIN's targeted-prep mode. It lets Accelerated users filter the question pool by firm and interview round — a Goldman first round, an Evercore Superday, a Centerview final — and runs the same adaptive selection logic over that narrower pool. Use it when a specific interview is on the calendar. It is gated to the Accelerated tier ($40/month).

What gets filtered

The OFFERGOBLIN question bank tags every question with a source bank and a round. Bank & Round lets candidates narrow by either or both:

Bank — the firm the question was sourced from. The catalog includes 39 banks across bulge brackets, elite boutiques, middle-market, and regional firms. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citi, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Evercore, Centerview, Lazard, Moelis, PJT, Houlihan Lokey, Guggenheim, Jefferies, and others.
Round — the stage of the interview process. First round, Superday, technical round, final round, and the variants different banks use.

A candidate can pick one or both filters. The card pool shrinks to whatever matches.

Selection inside the filtered pool

The selection inside Bank & Round is not random. It still flows through the GOBLINMODE engine — the same two layers of weighting (phase × health) — applied to the narrowed pool.

That means inside a Goldman first round filter, the candidate still gets:

Unseen Goldman first round questions in the current curriculum phase first.
Goldman first round questions they got wrong before, at 20x weight.
Bleed-over from adjacent phases when the active-phase pool runs thin.

The engine does not just hand back a random Goldman question. It hands back the next Goldman question the candidate most needs given their grading history.

When to use Bank & Round

The high-leverage moments:

Week before a known interview — a Goldman TMT first round on the calendar Friday means switching into Goldman + first round filters Tuesday through Thursday.
Superday prep — bank-specific Superday formats vary. Pulling the Superday round filter for the target firm exposes the question patterns specific to that day.
Coverage group prep — when paired with the Topics filter, candidates can drill bank-specific coverage-group questions (Goldman TMT, Evercore Healthcare, etc.).

The high-frustration moments where candidates misuse it:

Daily prep — using Bank & Round as the daily mode without an interview pending narrows the pool unnecessarily. The engine has fewer cards to weight, so the experience gets repetitive.
Generic technicals — accounting, valuation, and DCF questions are mostly bank-agnostic. There is no benefit to filtering them by bank.

The right pattern: GOBLINMODE for daily reps, Bank & Round for the week leading up to a real interview.

How firms differ in question style

The banks the candidate has interviews at often dictate what the prep should emphasize:

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, BofA, Citi — heavy on standard technicals across accounting, valuation, DCF, and LBO. Coverage groups (TMT, Healthcare, FIG) layer in industry-specific questions.
Elite boutiques (Evercore, Centerview, Lazard, Moelis, PJT) — typically harder technicals, more emphasis on LBO mechanics and paper LBOs, more behavioral pressure.
Middle-market and regional banks — often more behavioral relative to bulge brackets, with technicals at fundamentals level. Coverage exposure varies.

Bank & Round mode does not tell the candidate what to expect at a specific firm — that is what the Learn library and recruiting guides are for. What Bank & Round does is make sure the cards practiced reflect the firm's actual question style based on candidate-reported interviews.

What Bank & Round is not

Bank & Round is not a leak. The questions surfaced under the Goldman filter are not Goldman's current interview leaks; they are candidate-reported questions across the firm's history, normalized into the OFFERGOBLIN format. No question represents an unauthorized disclosure of a live interview.

It is also not a sufficient prep on its own. A candidate who only practices Bank & Round questions for one firm will be unprepared if the interviewer goes off-script. The fundamentals from GOBLINMODE are the bedrock; Bank & Round narrows the focus on top of that bedrock.

Pricing

Bank & Round is Accelerated only ($40 a month). The Free tier does not include bank or round filters — Free users see GOBLINMODE and GOBLIN100 only. See Free vs Accelerated for the breakdown.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Bank & Round mode on OFFERGOBLIN?

Which banks does OFFERGOBLIN have questions from?

When should I use Bank & Round versus GOBLINMODE?

Is Bank & Round on the free tier?

Are Bank & Round questions current interview leaks?