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JLL interview questions

166 questions researched across 9 JLL seats in Leasing & Occupier Advisory, Capital Markets, Valuation & Advisory Services. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Commercial GraduateLeasing & Occupier Advisory · graduate · 30 min
  • AnalystCapital Markets · graduate · 30 min
  • Leasing InternLeasing & Occupier Advisory · intern · 20 min
  • Capital Markets InternCapital Markets · intern · 20 min
  • Value & Risk Advisory InternValuation & Advisory Services · intern · 20 min
  • Valuation AnalystValuation & Advisory Services · graduate · 30 min
  • Investment Banking Summer AnalystJLL Securities / Real Estate IB · intern · 20 min
  • Property & Facilities InternWork Dynamics · intern · 20 min
  • Finance InternFinance & Accounting · intern · 20 min

12 JLL interview questions

  1. Why commercial real estate advisory and why JLL?

  2. Why JLL — and how would you explain what this team actually does?

  3. Walk through a debt deal you followed or worked on: the diligence, the capital structure, and how lenders were segmented.

  4. How do increased interest rates impact loan proceeds?

  5. What real estate assets, products or markets do you like right now, and why?

  6. What's your favourite function in Excel, and where has it actually saved you time?

  7. Why JLL Capital Markets and commercial real estate?

  8. What is interesting in the real-estate market right now, and why?

  9. Name a time you had to solve a difficult problem for a customer.

  10. Explain the project on your resume that you're proudest of, and what you specifically did.

  11. What's CapEx, and what typically falls under it for a landlord?

  12. Why commercial real estate leasing, and why JLL rather than CBRE or Cushman?

What a strong answer does

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

Behavioral6 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.
Market2 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.

154 more JLL questions

The rest of the bank — 166 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 JLL 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 JLL round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

Falas is not affiliated with or endorsed by any employer named. Simulations are independent practice based on publicly described recruiting formats.