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JPMorgan interview questions

219 questions researched across 11 JPMorgan seats in Investment Banking, Markets, Asset Management. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Investment Banking Summer AnalystInvestment Banking · intern · 20 min
  • AnalystInvestment Banking · graduate · 30 min
  • Markets Summer AnalystMarkets · intern · 20 min
  • Institutional Sales AnalystMarkets · graduate · 30 min
  • Investment AnalystAsset Management · graduate · 30 min
  • AnalystPrivate Bank · graduate · 30 min
  • AWM Summer AnalystAsset & Wealth Management · intern · 20 min
  • Commercial Banking Summer AnalystCommercial Banking · intern · 20 min
  • Software Engineer InternTechnology · intern · 20 min
  • Operations Analyst InternCIB Operations · intern · 20 min
  • Markets AnalystMarkets · graduate · 30 min

12 JPMorgan interview questions

  1. Walk me through your resume, why investment banking, and a recent deal or market trend you are following.

  2. Walk through the three financial statements, then show how depreciation flows through them.

  3. Walk me through the bridge from equity value to enterprise value. Then tell me what happens to enterprise value if the company issues $100 of new debt and holds the cash.

  4. A company buys $100 of equipment with cash. What happens on the three statements on the day of the purchase?

  5. What are the main ways to value a company, and which would you expect to give the highest value? Why?

  6. How do you calculate EBITDA, and why do bankers lean on it?

  7. What are some of the differences between equity and debt capital markets, and how would that affect which one a company taps?

  8. Tell me about a time you worked closely with someone who had a very different working style from you.

  9. Tell me about a mistake you made at school or work — what happened, how did you fix it, and what did you take away?

  10. Quick one: how many times in a day do the hour and minute hands of a clock overlap?

  11. Why JPMorgan and why this investment banking internship rather than Goldman or Morgan Stanley?

  12. Walk me through a DCF at a high level.

What a strong answer does

The questions above fall into 2 kinds. What a strong answer does differs by kind, not by question.

Technical8 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.
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.

207 more JPMorgan questions

The rest of the bank — 219 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 JPMorgan 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 JPMorgan round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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