FEW INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AT GOLDMAN SACHS

The following are the likely interview questions at Goldman Sachs, a multinational consulting firm:

1. Tell me about your CV.

2. What was your preferred class when you were in the university?

3. What are your strengths?

4. What are your weaknesses?

5. Why do want to work with Goldman Sachs?

6. How do you know you want this job at Goldman Sachs?

7. What makes Goldman Sachs different from its competitors?

8. Tell me about the mistake you made in the past, and how did you overcome it?

9. Tell me about a time when you failed to meet a deadline.

10. Tell me about your previous jobs.

11. What would your team mates say about working with you?

12. Are you a perfectionist?

13. Tell me your important experience in your career. And why?

14. Tell me about yourself in three minutes.

15. Explain to me the time you acted as a leader.

16. What are the three different ways of valuing a company?

17. Walk me through a D.C.F? What
does a D.C.F do?

18. Walk me through a LBO analysis?

19. If you find a business that wants to preserve cash, what type of inventory accounting method would you use (LIFO and FIFO), in terms of rising prices and why?

20. What is Minority Interest and why do we add it in Enterprise Value Formula?

21. Why is cash subtracted from Enterprise Value?

22. Why can't you use EV/Earnings or Price/EBITDA as valuation metrics?

23. How does depreciation move throughout the financial statements?

24. Which structured equity product would you issue in the current market conditions?

25. How would you value a company which was very successful until recently, but lost market share due to a single event?

26. Explain the option Greeks.

27. Are equities overpriced?

28. What's your top stock pick?

29. What's the NPV of $1 with a 10% discount rate over 10 years?

30. You receive a dollar for the rest of your life. What is the value of those dollars today?

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