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Santander interview questions

26 questions researched across 1 Santander seat in Corporate & Investment Banking. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Graduate AnalystCorporate & Investment Banking · graduate · 30 min

12 Santander interview questions

  1. Walk me through an LBO.

  2. Tell me about a time you built a relationship from nothing.

  3. Santander CIB is organised into Global Banking, Global Markets and Global Transaction Banking. Which of those would you want to start in, and why?

  4. What value would you bring to this team in your first year?

  5. The graduate programme rotates you through different teams over twelve months. Where would you like to end up, and how would you use the rotations?

  6. Why Santander and why corporate and investment banking?

  7. Walk me through a DCF.

  8. What is net interest margin and what moves it?

  9. How would you value a Latin American business with high inflation?

  10. Why do European banks pursue LatAm growth, and what is the risk?

  11. Which Santander market would you want to cover and why?

  12. How do the three financial statements link together?

What a strong answer does

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

Technical5 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.
Behavioral5 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.
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.

14 more Santander questions

The rest of the bank — 26 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 Santander 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 Santander round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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