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).
I think it is more of a pre-screening than an interview. Mostly asked about behavioral questions. 25 minutes or so. There is no technical questions, either high level or leet code like.
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Question 1
What characteristics of you would make you success?
it was an interview where I answered questions about the job description. Riveting experience would totally do again cheers. I like interviews. Yep. 30 words. let me use your website please
Submitted - online test - real person first round interview
The first round interview is all about technical from 400, not hard but a lot, 15 questions within 20 minutes