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CIBC interview questions

21 questions researched across 1 CIBC seat in Capital Markets. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Summer AnalystCapital Markets · intern · 20 min

12 CIBC interview questions

  1. What do you think the day-to-day work of an investment banking analyst actually looks like?

  2. A company issues one hundred dollars of debt in year zero. In year one the interest rate is ten percent, half paid in cash and half as PIK, and the tax rate is thirty percent. Walk me through the three statements.

  3. What company would you invest in right now? Pitch it to me.

  4. Walk me through the three statements.

  5. How do you value a bank?

  6. What would make you change your mind on that stock, and what multiple is it trading at versus its peers?

  7. Tell me about a recent deal you've followed that's relevant to the group you want to join. Why did it happen?

  8. What recent global event do you think matters most for Canadian capital markets, and why?

  9. Tell me about your most notable achievement so far, and why it makes you a good fit for this role.

  10. How comfortable are you in Excel? What does VLOOKUP do, and when would you use INDEX-MATCH instead?

  11. Why CIBC Capital Markets?

  12. You get about ninety seconds to prepare and two minutes to answer. Tell us why investment banking.

What a strong answer does

The questions above fall into 3 kinds. What a strong answer does differs by kind, not by question.

Behavioral4 of 12 above
Lead with the claim and context; isolate your personal action and decision; explain the trade-off; quantify the result; finish with what you learned and changed.
Technical4 of 12 above
State the intuition first; walk through the mechanics; make assumptions explicit; test a risk or edge case; connect the answer to the role.
Market4 of 12 above
State a view; support it with evidence and a catalyst; explain valuation or transmission; give the strongest countercase; name the risk that would change your mind.

9 more CIBC questions

The rest of the bank — 21 in total — is asked by the interviewer during practice, so you meet them the way you would on the day rather than reading them first.

Practise CIBC questions

How these questions were researched

Every question carries a provenance grade. Some were reported by candidates who sat the round, some come from the firm’s own published guidance or a source that trains for it, and the rest are written to match how this firm asks. Each seat is studied on its own — the round it actually runs, the order it runs it in, and what it is listening for. A CIBC round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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