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).
Its a graduate program so very intensive competition but the questions are not that hard as an experienced level interview. Went through 2 rounds of interviews till superday. Overall the process is very smooth.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
superday with three groups. two were just asking for group fit while one group (MD and Ds) are asking accounting related questions
Interview en physique dans les locaux de la société
3 entretiens de 30 min avec des associés et des juniors
Nous étions 6 candidats pour 1 poste de summer analyst
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Jefferies (New York, NY) in Feb 2025
Interview
30 minute first round interview, thought it was only going to be behavioral questions but I only got asked technical questions. Questions were pretty straight forward if you have a good read on financial markets.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between a Municipal and Corporate Bond?