Fit/Qualitative Questions

Question 1

I see you’ve done mostly (non-finance internships). Can you discuss your quantitative skills?

Answer 1

Respond with specific times you had to work with numbers/logic

• Chem 3A (work through logically)
• Trading experience (if you have any by this time)
• FAU lab research (quantifying chemical effects)
• Stat 20/133 (math-heavy classes)
• UGBA 96 (personal finance)

Question 2

Walk me through your thought process for (blank)

Answer 2

Break everything into steps and be specific about each step

- Go into Step 1, Step 2, Step 3… (thought flow)

Question 3

Tell me about a time when you submitted a project or report with grammatical mistakes.

Answer 3

Briefly mention a careless mistake and spend most of the time discussing what you learned or how you improved. Use 2nd example to show improvement.

• Freshman fall submitted a history paper without revision as I did it last minute.
• After getting the grade, I was determined to not let something like that be the reason my grades were low as it was a fix that only needed work ethic.
• During freshman spring, I had to write a similar paper for biology, and I spent the whole previous week doing it in parts instead of doing it all in one night and my paper grade was much better.
• I learned the importance of pacing with work and how to better approach a long-term assignment

Question 4

What is the most number of classes you ever took at once and how well did you do in each of them?

Answer 4

Point to a specific semester

• During freshman spring I took 5 classes, did a consulting project and did a data analysis project
• I made sure to motivate myself and to maximize my efficiency everyday
• Received As in 3 classes and an A- in 2 classes

Question 5

How well can you multitask?

Answer 5

Give an example of working on multiple commitments at the same time. State that you pulled off everything successfully despite multiple demands.

• During freshman spring semester I had to juggle 5 classes, along with a consulting project with Microsoft’s financial services marketing, as well as an economic data analysis project about the Bank of England’s financial data
• Was able to earn As/A-s in all classes, played a leadership role in final deliverable for Microsoft, and was able to make data visualizations and slide deck to present economic data analysis

Question 6

Have you ever worked on a project/report shown to a large number of people?

Answer 6

I worked on two consulting projects: one with Microsoft and one with Logitech

• Microsoft project was about improving their marketing towards financial services companies for their Azure cloud platform
• Logitech project was about improving their go-to-market strategy for products that they had in the pipeline
• Both projects required strict attention to detail and absolutely no mistakers as the clients were large tech companies and were paying for the service