1. Why banking 2. Why bank X 3. Strengths, weakness, failures and leadership success 4. Job responsibilities and stresses 5.

Goals and other fields of interest 6. Tell me about a recent M&A deal youve taken an interest in 7. Why would Company A want to acquire Company B 8. Why would a company use debt to partially fund the purchase of Company X if it has enough cash to buy it using 100% cash 9. What are you 3 primary means of valuing a company, and which one is most generous (to the company being valued) in terms of results 10. If I asked you to evaluate whether company X would be a good investment using just one financial statement, which one would you use and why 11. How to value a company (three or four major methodologies = comparable companies, precedent transactions, DCF, and LBO) 12. Walk through a DCF or LBO or M&A model 13. Tell me something about the financial statements (probably how the link together or "explain" each of them) 14. Give me your global macro. 15. Explain the 2008 debt crisis. 16. What Credit Suisse are doing in the markets. 17. Can you explain the different trading strategies of the different tpye of hedge funds that the prime brokerage group currently looks after? 18. Do you see yourself more as a team player or do you prefer to work on your own? Do you consider yourself to be confrontational? How do you handle very difficult clients? 19. Tell me about the 2008 MBS Crisis as well as the 2010 European Debt Crisis. Where do you think the market will be in 6 months as a result? 20. Why do you want to do this job when other opportunities are also available to you? 21. Definition of a high achiever? Are you a high Achiever? 22. What option will have higher price- European, Asian or Clique type?

23. Why IB? What makes you stronger than others? 24. How would your best friend describe you? 25. "Who is the founder of Credit Suisse?" 26. You have a file with strings, but do not know how many lines it has in total. You can only go through the file once, how can you randomly pick one line of string with equal prob? 27. How does depreciation +100 affect three statements? 28. What are the three valuation methods, what are the pros/cons of each? 29. What scares you the most about investment banking? 30. How to sell some product to someone in some state without really reaching him? 31. What are your thoughts on the US economy? 32. How can you explain something very technical to someone who has zero knowledge about it? He/she might be very impatient 33. You want to put 10 cokes into a cooler. There are 6 brands of coke. Each brand has more than 10 cans. How many configurations are there if positions do not matter. 34. Birthday party, 20 friends come. You shake hands with them. Some of them shake hands too. Is it possible that no two persons shake the same number of hands? 35. If you sold a client shares of Toyota and they tanked next day, how would you go about it? 36. What risks does Credit Suisse face? 37. What is the difference between futures and forwards? 38. Could you name 5 good reasons for us to hire you? 39. Tell me about a time that you failed to live up to an employers expectations. 40. What is your vision of success? 41. How Would You Improve The Company? 42. Explain risk - quantitatively and fundamentally. 43. What stock would you invest in? 44. Give us an example of the most complex project you have done 45. How do you deal with ambiguity? 46. Describe whether a long term interest rate should be higher or lower than the short term. 47. Tell us a joke.