Finance Mba Interview Questions

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The second one was a short technical briefing of basic finance and business concepts, explain briefly what is an income statement and how you build one, difference between balance sheet, income statement and cash flows. Then a brief case question involving the performance analysis of 2 products based on some financial information (costs, revenues and some ratios)
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MBA Finance Internship

Interviewed at Ecolab

3.5
Sep 11, 2013

The second one was a short technical briefing of basic finance and business concepts, explain briefly what is an income statement and how you build one, difference between balance sheet, income statement and cash flows. Then a brief case question involving the performance analysis of 2 products based on some financial information (costs, revenues and some ratios)

1. What would you bring from your last job to this position? 2. What do you think keeps Prudential executives up at night? 3. Why Prudential? Why a rotational program? 4. If selected, would you prefer Finance or Strategy positions? 5. What other industries have you considered? 6. What have you noticed that you liked about Prudential? What drew you to Prudential? 7. Any problems being located in NJ/NY? 8. Give an example of a time you collaborated. 9. Interviewer explained pension risk transfer business. Asked the following questions afterwards: What are the risks associated with this? What asset allocation would you recommend? What price would you recommend for a company up front and how would you calculate this?
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Finance & Strategy MBA Intern

Interviewed at Prudential

3.7
Jan 16, 2021

1. What would you bring from your last job to this position? 2. What do you think keeps Prudential executives up at night? 3. Why Prudential? Why a rotational program? 4. If selected, would you prefer Finance or Strategy positions? 5. What other industries have you considered? 6. What have you noticed that you liked about Prudential? What drew you to Prudential? 7. Any problems being located in NJ/NY? 8. Give an example of a time you collaborated. 9. Interviewer explained pension risk transfer business. Asked the following questions afterwards: What are the risks associated with this? What asset allocation would you recommend? What price would you recommend for a company up front and how would you calculate this?

The case was fairly open-ended but I found it fairly difficult. Probably a good idea to practice scenarios related to airlines. Example, what if maintenance requested more equipment? How would you analyze all factors: financial, operational, competitive that would go into evaluating your decision?
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MBA Finance

Interviewed at United Airlines

3.8
Oct 18, 2015

The case was fairly open-ended but I found it fairly difficult. Probably a good idea to practice scenarios related to airlines. Example, what if maintenance requested more equipment? How would you analyze all factors: financial, operational, competitive that would go into evaluating your decision?

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