How to Answer The Top 5 Hardest Behavioral Questions | Barclays Investment Banking Mock Interview
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Wall Street Oasis
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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Barclays had the most challenging behavioral questions I have ever seen. So if you're preparing for an investment banking interview for Barclays, stick around to see how we answer the top five most challenging behavioral questions. |
| 0:18.0 | Today we have with us Tim Wheel. He worked as director at UBS and Barclays for the past 11 years and has had a lot of success in the U.S. as well as in the UK. |
| 0:29.7 | We're going to be asking him all of these behavioral questions. |
| 0:32.5 | He's also going to tell us why he chose Barclays. |
| 0:35.1 | So stay tuned for that answer. |
| 0:37.4 | And towards the end, he's going to tell us |
| 0:39.2 | some of the best advice he has from mentoring all of our students at the Academy. So stay tuned, |
| 0:45.0 | and I hope you enjoy. Hi, Tim. Welcome to this mock interview. We're so glad to have you with us. |
| 0:50.6 | So Tim is one of our head mentors. He offers very popular office hours within the academy, so it's really an honor to have you here. |
| 0:58.0 | And today we're going to do something special. |
| 0:59.0 | We're going to do a mock interview. |
| 1:01.0 | So Tim, why don't you start by telling our audience a little bit more about you? |
| 1:05.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:06.0 | So graduated from the University of Virginia for undergrad with a degree in systems engineering. Fairly quickly |
| 1:12.5 | into my engineering career realized I didn't actually want to be an engineer long term. So I ended up |
| 1:17.9 | doing a master's program at Duke University in engineering management to get a little bit more |
| 1:22.2 | business background, finance background that I didn't have as an engineering undergrad. And then started my |
| 1:29.9 | career at a small firm called Enron, which probably most of you were doing case studies on in your |
| 1:35.9 | classes. But that got me into the energy industry. And I stayed in there for about four or five years |
| 1:43.2 | for the start of my career in Houston, Texas. |
| 1:46.3 | And ultimately, I got to the point where I was working with commercial and industrial clients |
| 1:50.6 | around structuring their electricity contracts because energy in Texas at the time was |
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