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).
My process consisted of a first round and a superday interview. Part of the process was in person and the interviews were all straight forward and mostly assessing cultural fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the biggest animal you could take on in a fight and not die?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Jefferies (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
The first couple of interviews have been very casual phone calls with and analyst and associate. Almost exclusively behavioral questions about me or my previous internships. Told me to expect some technicals on the next call.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself.
Tell me about your previous internships.
Why IB at Jefferies over other banks.
Focused on NAVs and industry knowledge, was interviewing for energy group. Also standard IB 400 questions for behaviourals and things like why IB and why energy. Didn’t have to do any math but heard others have had to