Hello,Has anybody been through ABN Amro Assessment day in structured derivatives for a summer internship?In the morning there will be an aptitude test followed by a first stage interview. They say the aptitude test is a scenario in which you work for a capital venture firm, and where you have "to learn methods for assessing financial and statistical information, then apply them to various applicants to make preliminary evaluations and decisions." If you are successful in the afternoon there will be a second stage interview, reasoning interview, and then a case study.What type of questions should I expect to face in the interviews ? Could somebody give more details about the aptitude test and the case study ?Thank you,

one advice for the test, be quick, it's damn easy but you should make sure that you're quick (and accurate)

Thank you JMR,but if you can could you give more details about the tests?From what they say, it seems it won't be the usual logical and numerical tests used by most banks. It may not be so easy for me, since I have no professional finance experience.

well it's definitely not the standard SHL tests, nothing to do with them, and you don't need to have any financial knowledge to do themactually you get a bunch of ratios that you have to calculate and you have a table stating what decision to take for whatever figure you got for this ratio, the thing is that it gets harder and harder to do these calculation as you have a limited time and a LOT of question, thinking about it, it's exactly the same idea like the standard SHL question, reading tables and graphs, doing some easy straight forward stuff, but the hurdle is time.they actually assess based on two criteria, speed and accuracy, I actually got a 100% accuracy when I passed the test, but I was 3 questions short from the benchmark of # of questions, so don't dwell much on the answers, but make sure you don't cock it up though.all the best

Thanks JMR, this will help me a lot.Doesn't anybody have clues about the case study and the "reasoning" interview please ?

QuoteOriginally posted by: sothuleThanks JMR, this will help me a lot.Doesn't anybody have clues about the case study and the "reasoning" interview please ?Why don't you just pay someone to sit the test for you ?

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