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Hardenne: woah congrats! heard ure interview went really well, so i suppose its no surprise. jimmy: i see u...

macq cap! <again>

lol i know how it feels :P but seriously though, if you've applied for non-IB and they haven't called u back then it's completely normal. you might even get lucky, one department i know didn't even do final round interviews, just offered based on 1st round+psych (this happened this year, dunno...

it took 2 weeks for some of my friends (non-IB applicants). different departments have their own timetables so dw too much.

dhruv! is that you??

Macq also acts as principal in many of it's deals. That is, if you come up with a great idea but no client wants to do it (esp in today's environment) and there's no-one to advise, Macq just advises itself and buys into deals/companies it thinks are great ideas (as opposed to just pitching...

be safe and do both. You don't need to "study" per se but remembering specific numbers and metrics of deals etc can be very impressive, especially when the people interviewing you actually worked on the deals themselves and you can have a mature conversation with them about those deals. and...

Tmet!

cool, what division/sector group?

Got the Macq call today :D anyone else working at MacqCap this summer?

nice work with the interviews and goodluck with it. and I agree with being calm and explaining your reasons, they don't want a number as an answer, they want to know how you tick/think.

victoriachailh: I haven't done valuations at uni either, I've learnt it myself (http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/) and also because I value companies in my job currently. - Harbour Bridge; it's just like you would value any other business (present value of cash flows) and the bridge is...

Hey victoriachailh, You asked this on another thread but I'll post this here as well incase others want to know the same thing: I had my final round interview on tuesday and then another final-final round this morning because the director was confused between 2 candidates. It was a really...

Hey victoriachailh, I had my final round interview on tuesday and then another final-final round this morning because the director was confused between 2 candidates. It was a really chilled out interview and the types of questions i was asked included; - How would you value the Harbour Bridge...

Yeh you gotta watch out for the Asian positions, they tend to be a bit more hardcore. My friend who's interviewing for DB in HK got grilled in his first round interview by a banker. Good work on getting as far as you did, you're going to have a leg up next year.