Investment Banking Associate applicants have rated the interview process at J.P. Morgan with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Investment Banking Associate roles take an average of 39 days to get hired, when considering 14 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at J.P. Morgan overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at J.P. Morgan as a Investment Banking Associate according to 14 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 36%
Phone interview: 27%
Group panel interview: 18%
Background check: 9%
Skills test: 9%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at J.P. Morgan
Interview
Process involves a lot of networking, both with your school's alumni base and with people in the group you're interested in. It is almost impossible to get into the bank if you don't come from a target school or don't find alumni who will push you through.
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Variety of technical questions - Walk me through a DCF, Qualities of a good LBO, etc.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at J.P. Morgan (London, England) in Nov 2025
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It was a one way interview on HireVue where I had been asked only 3 questions, each question being 3 minutes long and having the ability to retry one more time
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What is one economic factor that is happening in the news that really interests you?
Tough - 9 stages of interviews from juniors to seniors. Questions on markets, technicals, fit, motivation and everything else. Follow-up interviews with the head of the team and a process which had continued to whittle down the number of people in the process until there was only 3 in the final round.
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Give me the top 5 headlines right now on the Financial Times.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at J.P. Morgan (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2024
Interview
Multiple coffee chats and a super day with 3 rounds of interviews. Typical banking questions without anything out of ordinary. Heard back within a week with a decision. They put a lot of empasis of the prior coffee chats as a part of the evaluation process