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Investment Banking Interview Prep

The 400 questions tell you what to say. We show you exactly how to say it: expert answers to the most common questions, recorded by analysts who ran this process, got the offers, and then interviewed candidates at the top banks.

  • 180+ interview questions answered out loud by bankers
  • 90+ written lessons that teach the concepts from the interview’s perspective
  • Full superday mocks, past interview questions, grading rubrics, and AI practice

Meet the course in 90 seconds, from the analysts who built it.

Taught by
Tate Li
Tate LiInvestment Banking Analyst, Bank of America
Sanmoy Karmakar
Sanmoy KarmakarInvestment Banking Analyst, Citi
Azat Agishev
Azat AgishevInvestment Banking Analyst, Morgan Stanley
William Yang
William YangInvestment Banking Analyst, Lincoln International
Tanishk Khetan
Tanishk KhetanInvestment Banking Analyst, J.P. Morgan
Alec Nickolov
Alec NickolovInvestment Banking Analyst, Tidal Partners
Ryyan Rehman
Ryyan RehmanInvestment Banking Analyst, Goldman Sachs
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01 · The core

180+ interview questions, answered out loud by bankers

These are the ideal answers, what the interviewer wants to hear, recorded by analysts and associates who just got offers at bulge bracket and elite boutique firms.

The guides tell you roughly what to cover. Hearing one of the best responses said out loud is different: the exact structure and delivery that got the offer. Click one and hear how it’s done before you’re in the interview.

02 · The real thing

Full-length superday mocks, start to finish

What 30 minutes in the interview actually feels like. Built from past interviews: behaviorals and technicals back to back, with questions that go harder than the 400.

Here’s one of them. There are five, built from recent interviews across the banks.

Watch the Goldman Sachs superday mock →

Goldman Sachs Superday Mock
35:21
Also inside:J.P. Morgan SuperdayMorgan Stanley SuperdayMorgan Stanley First RoundUBS First Round+ more added regularly
03 · The teaching

The most important concepts, simplified

Tell Me About Yourself. Why Investment Banking. Why This Firm. Networking. The things that decide offers, broken down into how to think about them and how to build an answer of your own.

Learn the concept here, then hear what a great answer sounds like in the mocks.

The Networking Mindset That Gets Offers
5:33
Also inside:Tell Me About YourselfWhy Investment Banking?Why This Firm?The Top 10 Most Common Technical QuestionsInterview PsychologyWatch This If You Have an Interview Coming Up+ more

From people who just went through recruiting

04 · The foundation

The lessons that teach you what the videos put to work

Written backwards from the interview, so they’re easier to understand than the guides and you learn the concepts faster.

Every video answer links back to the lesson that explains the why, so the course actually teaches it to you instead of just showing you.

Behaviorals
Tell me about yourself, story bank, markets questions
33 lessons
Networking
Cold outreach, coffee chats, email templates
6 lessons
Accounting
The three statements, starting from the questions
52 lessons
Enterprise value and equity value
The bridge, dilution, and multiples
36 lessons
Valuation
DCF, comps, and precedent transactions
55 lessons
M&A and LBO
Merger math, LBO models, and the harder questions
75 lessons
05 · The insider info

300+ real questions from past cycles, with expert answers

Submitted by candidates straight out of their interviews, verified, and updated every cycle. Filter by bank, round, and category, and see what actually got asked at your bank last year.

Interviews go deeper than the 400 questions now. This is where the extra depth and the extra reps come from.

Browse the question bank →

The investment banking question bank, filterable by company and category

The live question bank. Click through to browse it.

06 · Practice

Practice out loud with peers and AI

Answer with your voice and get instant feedback, or get matched with a peer recruiting the same cycle for live mocks.

The experts show you what the answer that gets the offer sounds like. This is where you practice until you sound like that too.

Your question:
“Walk me through a merger model.”
Tap to answer out loud
07 · The guides

Interview guides for every bank

Recruiting at Goldman is not recruiting at Evercore. Our bank-by-bank guides break down each firm’s process, rounds, and what they actually ask, so you know what you’re walking into.

If you’re not at a feeder school, this is the context everyone else gets from upperclassmen.

Browse the bank guides →

Goldman SachsMorgan StanleyJ.P. MorganEvercoreLazardMoelisCenterview+ 20 more
Why we built this
“When I was recruiting, I did what everyone does: slammed the 400 questions, took a modeling course, and walked into interviews having never heard what a good answer sounds like. I learned the hard way, then spent years on the other side of the table interviewing candidates. This is everything I wish I had back then for investment banking recruiting.”
Tate · Finance Lead at Aced · ex-Investment Banking Analyst, Bank of America
Coaching

Work one-on-one with the people who built it

Mock interviews, resume and story work, and a plan built for your cycle, from the coaches who made the course and sat on the hiring side. Available as a separate package.

The coaching marketplace: browse expert coaches by role, company, and skill

The live coaching marketplace. Click through to browse coaches.

Compared to other programs

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Price$12/mo billed annually$10,000+$6,000+
Pricing

Now that you’ve seen what’s inside

Start free, upgrade when you’re ready.

Basic
The free Goldman superday mock, sample lessons, and sample questions. No card required.
$0/ month
Start free
  • Free Goldman superday mock
  • Sample lessons and questions
  • 5 peer mocks per month
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Pro
The full IB track. Everything on this page except one-on-one coaching.
$79 / month
$12/ month
Billed annually
  • 180+ expert mock answer videos
  • 5 full superday mocks
  • 90+ lessons, taught backwards
  • 300+ question bank, bank guides
  • Unlimited peer mocks
Expert
Everything in Pro, plus the full AI coaching suite for unlimited practice reps.
$99 / month
$20/ month
Billed annually
  • Everything in Pro
  • AI mock interviews with feedback
  • Transcript comparison vs experts
  • Chat with an AI coach

Start with the free Goldman superday mock

A full 30-minute superday mock, free. If it’s useful to you, the course is 90+ lessons of exactly this.

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