Why You Didn’t Land an Offer in Your Final Round Interviews at Morgan Stanley

“Help! I went to my final round interviews but the interviewer didn’t like me from the start and kept harassing me with irrelevant questions. I asked for feedback afterward and they said, “Improve your technical skills.” How can I do that? They didn’t even ask me any technical questions.”

Final rounds are over.

Banks are done giving out offers.

…and you came close, got a few Superdays (or assessment centers), but you didn’t walk away with any offers.

While most of the articles on this site teach you how to improve yourself and land offers, this one has a different message: interviews are random.

Sometimes it’s not your fault if you don’t get an offer.

What’s In a Pitch Book?

If you’ve been reading this site awhile, you’ve seen a number of references to pitch books – whether they’re in day-in-the-life accounts, explanations of what bankers actually do, or even horror stories from other sources.

But there hasn’t been much detail on what goes into pitch books, why you spend so much time on them, where you can get some samples, and how you can learn to make them.

So let’s get started.

Weekly Reader Q&A: Diluted Shares Outstanding In A DCF, IT To Investment Banking And Fortune 500 Corporate Finance

Weekly (or maybe this should be bi-weekly?) Reader Q&A continues this week, and I prove that I can indeed answer technical/finance questions as well (one of the benefits of working in an M&A group is that I know all sorts of obscure finance/tax trivia you never use 99% of the time), so if you have them send them over.