Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Jefferies as 66.7% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.17 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Equity Research and Analyst rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Equity Sales and Equity Research roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Jefferies takes an average of 55 days when considering 6 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Praktikant M&A had the quickest hiring process (on average 5 days), whereas Equity Research roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 150 days).
Mix of behavioral and quantitative analysis. Overall decent and average for the sector. Wasnt too crazy. Was prepared. Easy going for the most part. Met with several senior managers who were all very nice and east to talk to.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Jefferies (New York, NY) in Feb 2017
Interview
Applied through school's career website - got a call for first round of interview within a couple of days.
First round = Phone Interview (Technical +Behavioural) - 20 minutes
(Cleared the phone interview, next was Super-day)
Super-day= Visited their NYC Office, Madison Avenue, had 3 sets of personal interviews with 6 people in all - 20 minutes each ( Pure technical Interview)
Got a call within 2 days offering me the internship.
Tips: Make sure you know your resume well and what you are getting yourself into, have a good hold on your story and be confident.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Jefferies (New York, NY) in Jan 2017
Interview
I received phone interview from one VP. He is very nice and asked some general interview questions. It takes about 20 minutes. First introduced myself, then asked me the last work experience, and one project, and programming skills. In additional, he asked me one technique question about the concept of join in SQL.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give me one example related to SQL left join, what is the outcome?