Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Jefferies as 66.7% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.17 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Equity Research and Analyst rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Equity Sales and Equity Research roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Jefferies takes an average of 55 days when considering 6 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Praktikant M&A had the quickest hiring process (on average 5 days), whereas Equity Research roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 150 days).
CV and Cover Letter, then online testing.
Invited to phone interview
The person on the phone was friendly and personal. Didn't feel like she was testing me that much.
Got back to me fairly quickly
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Jefferies (New York, NY)
Interview
Phone interview all behavioral and then super day which consisted of a 1 hour 3 seperate 1 person interviews which were all very nice and sociable people who were really just trying to get to know you.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Jefferies (London, England) in Nov 2017
Interview
CV, Cover Letter, Initial Screen, Telephone Int (w/ Business Rep), F2F, AC Offer (Still waiting to hear back post interview)
All conducted with business reps - so have questions ready to ask
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why FI, Walk me through your CV, What have you done that resembles sales or client service