The banks won't tell you what went wrong.
We will.

Train for Investment Banking, M&A, Private Equity, Venture Capital, DCM, ECM and Corporate Finance. Graded practice on the technicals and fit, then a spoken mock interview that interrupts you and shows you line by line where you lost the room.

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Vice president, M&A

Walk me through how a $40m goodwill impairment moves through the three statements.

You

Net income drops by $40m after tax, and cash also falls by $40m, since the impairment is a cash expense.

Vice president, M&A

Stop there. An impairment is non-cash, so you add it back on the cash flow statement. Run the cash flow again.

The answer most
candidates give

“Why investment banking?”

HireVue

Fast-paced environment.

Smart people.

Steep learning curve.

If the answer works for three different banks, it works for none.

“Depreciation goes up by $10. What happens to free cash flow?”

Technical

It falls. It’s an expense, so cash goes down.

It rises. Depreciation is non-cash, and the tax shield is real money.

“This company has negative shareholders’ equity. Worried?”

Superday

Yes. Liabilities exceed assets, it’s insolvent.

Or it bought back a decade of its own stock. McDonald’s and Starbucks have run negative equity for years.

Rejected

Rejected

Rejected

Can you answer these questions?

Company A acquires Company B for $500m, all cash, funded entirely with debt at 6%. A trades at 14x earnings, B at 11x earnings. Assume a 25% tax rate. Is the deal accretive?

B's earnings yield is 1 divided by 11, or 9.1%. The after-tax cost of debt is 6% times 0.75, or 4.5%. The acquired earnings exceed the financing cost, so the deal is accretive.

Not that one. Try again.

The difference is practice.

Prepare for interviews at

  • Goldman Sachs
  • Morgan Stanley
  • JP Morgan
  • Bank of America
  • Citi
  • Barclays
  • UBS
  • Evercore
  • Rothschild
  • Lazard

No affiliation or endorsement implied. All company names are the property of their respective owners.

What you need to train

Clarity

Company-specific mock interviews, set up round by round: HR screen, technical rounds, superday. An AI interviewer runs each round out loud, asks follow-ups and interrupts you.

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Clarity: the myIBpartner dashboard on a MacBook Pro

Speed

Timed multiple-choice questions: a countdown runs on each question, and you pick an answer before it hits zero.

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Speed: the myIBpartner dashboard on a MacBook Pro

Transparency

Every answer is graded separately on correctness, clarity and speed, each out of 100, with written feedback on what you got right and what was missing.

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Transparency: the myIBpartner dashboard on a MacBook Pro

Opportunities

A job board of internship and analyst openings at banks, filterable by firm, role, location and application deadline.

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Opportunities: the myIBpartner dashboard on a MacBook Pro

Community

A leaderboard ranking users by their interview scores.

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Community: the myIBpartner dashboard on a MacBook Pro

You have more odds of getting into Harvard than landing a role at JPMorgan.

Acceptance rate

0%
1%
2%
3%
4%

3–4%

1%

0.65%

Harvard, MIT, Stanford

Goldman Sachs

JPMorgan

Under 1%
Goldman Sachs intern acceptance rate, three years running
630,000
applications to JPMorgan for roughly 4,100 seats
3 to 4%
what Harvard, MIT and Stanford admitted. Easier odds than this.

Every tool teaches you the answer.
None of them teach you to deliver it.

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