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Behavioural/General interview questions: page 3 of 4

Questions 101–150

  1. Putting a price on a city food cartEasy
  2. Two firms differing only in their P/EEasy
  3. Discount rates, WACC and their inputsEasy
  4. What beta captures about riskEasy
  5. Comparing betas of an airport and a shop chainEasy
  6. What goes into a two-page equity noteEasy
  7. Pricing a manufacturer from the market multipleEasy
  8. Ratios that reveal financial strengthEasy
  9. Branded drug pricing when generics arriveEasy
  10. Explaining the capital asset pricing modelEasy
  11. Running a business with zero working capitalEasy
  12. Booking an asset purchase on the balance sheetEasy
  13. Company cars kept off fixed assetsEasy
  14. Selling a structured note to investorsEasy
  15. Discounted cash flow for an office towerEasy
  16. Should a carmaker hand back its cash pileEasy
  17. Selling a company story to the firm's clientsEasy
  18. Have you ever had to let someone goEasy
  19. Building this year's P&L for a consumer brandEasy
  20. Does long-term debt enter free cash flowEasy
  21. Methods for computing value at riskEasy
  22. What went wrong at Long-Term Capital ManagementEasy
  23. Default risk versus prepayment risk on loansEasy
  24. What kurtosis measuresEasy
  25. Time for an iron ball to sink to the deepest seabedEasy
  26. Table-tennis balls packed into a wide-body airlinerEasy
  27. How many restaurants a big burger chain runs in the USEasy
  28. Sizing an airline's cabin crew workforceEasy
  29. Counting the filling stations in the United StatesEasy
  30. Responding to a provocative question about a tyrantEasy
  31. Getting a guard to hand over a cigaretteMedium
  32. Estimating the number of lifts in the USEasy
  33. Pricing a contract on a sports star's future valueMedium
  34. The next flip after a hundred straight headsEasy
  35. Approaching the job of shifting an entire mountainEasy
  36. Finding a jumbo jet's mass with no weighing scaleEasy
  37. Measuring four gallons with 5- and 3-gallon jugsEasy
  38. Yearly market for replacement car batteriesEasy
  39. Market size estimate for a small racquet sportEasy
  40. Sizing a beer-can plant for a single stateEasy
  41. Why drinks cans narrow at the top and bottomEasy
  42. How a wing generates liftEasy
  43. Order-of-magnitude count of fish in the seaEasy
  44. How many barbers a big city supportsEasy
  45. Square root of a six-digit number in your headEasy
  46. A quick mental-arithmetic check on a millionEasy
  47. Why sewer covers are circularEasy
  48. What draws you to a banking careerEasy
  49. Defending anything written on your CVEasy
  50. Comfort with a rough trading-floor cultureEasy