Ex-Goldman Associate: Top Tips for Acing IB Recruiting

IB recruiting rewards a narrow set of signals: a clean, defensible walk-through of your resume, technical answers that are fast without being rehearsed-sounding, and a "why banking" story that holds up when an interviewer pushes on it. This session goes through where candidates lose points in each of those, and what separates an answer that sounds prepared from one that sounds real. Christopher Knittle worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs before moving to the buy side, and he's talking through recruiting from the interviewer's side of the table: what gets a candidate dinged in the room, not just what's wrong on paper. If you're heading into first-rounds this fall, it's worth hearing what actually moves the needle before you're in front of a banker.