Investment Banking Interview Questions: Practice with AI-driven Feedback

These investment banking interview questions are designed for Spring Weeks, summer internships, and analyst assessment centers, covering technical, behavioral, and situational interviews and case studies.

Investment banking interview questions designed to help you practice interview-style questions before the real thing!

Practicing for interviews is tough when it’s all theory – we get it. There were countless days and nights, where going over a DCF is all our brains turned to mush for.

You rehearse your story, you memorize how to walk someone through an LBO – but no one’s really putting you under pressure, except yourself or your friend who’s also applying.

Throughout school, we're conditioned to believe more content = more value. That works up to a point. Our mock interview feature is designed to help you think clearly in interview settings, not just to memorize and regurgitate. Our concise feedback exists to help you walk into the interview room with confidence that you can hold your own during an intelligent conversation.

Our interview questions aren’t just warmups – they help familiarize you with the feeling of being in the room or a video interview: take on the time pressure and get structured, realistic feedback.

Investment banking interview questions across 6 core areas

You’ll get open-ended interview questions across:

• Behavioral

• Market Sizing

• Technicals (valuation – DCFs, LBOs for instance, accounting, and more!)

• Communication & Judgment

• Execution

• Work Habits

Each one is tagged by skill, grouped by chapter, and structured to reflect the kinds of judgment calls and communication challenges you’ll face.

We've taken the time to ensure each question reflects the types commonly encountered in interviews, whether for a Spring Week, internship, or assessment center. SelfCapital Network is here to prepare you for questions about DCFs, LBOs, market awareness, judgment calls, and more - with confidence.

We’ve been on your side – and we’ve seen how these interviews tend to unfold in practice. What commonly gets noticed during interviews?

• Can this person communicate clearly and naturally, even under pressure?

• Do they actually understand the concepts they’re explaining, or have they just memorized them all?

• Would I trust them to take ownership, even at the smallest level?

• Do they seem humble enough to take on constructive criticism?

• Would I want to work with this person at 2am?

Notice how none of these questions are about the intricate specifics behind “Walk me through a DCF?” or whatever else.

We’re not saying don’t prepare for your technicals. You definitely should take the time to do so. But tell us this – how does that make you stand out from every other applicant who has nailed the classic answers?

In our experience, interviews commonly reward clarity and judgment, not rehearsed scripts.

And that’s why you’ll see more than just technical mock interviews on our site. Go check out our key mock interview chapters for free – we’ve provided the tools and content: you just need to click and learn.

How our investment banking interview practice works

Here’s the process:

1. You’re given a realistic interview-style question

2. You write your full answer (or say it to your camera – your choice) – ideally using our time pressure mode

3. Our system provides practice-oriented scores your answer, giving structured AI-driven feedback per question, and overall feedback at the end of your interview

4. You see which skills you nailed - and which need work

Interviews don’t give you a cheat sheet. They give you a question, a stare, and 90 seconds of silence. You have to speak.

Everything is tracked

So you can make the most out of your time, all of your interview questions are:

• Tagged by skill type

• Scored using AI-driven feedback

• Tracked in your dashboard – so you can see exactly how you’re doing and what to work on next

Final word

You don’t rise to the occasion in an interview – being able to connect with them on a human level doesn’t just happen magically on the day. You fall back on your preparation. These questions are designed to simulate that moment – so when it’s real, it’s not your first time.

Try out our (ex)banker-written/vetted interview questions with AI-driven feedback for free at SelfCapital Network – and practice so the real interview feels more familiar.