Coinbase
- 20
- questions
- 5
- stages
How the process runsTypical for a large technology company's corporate development team
- 1ApplicationTypicalUndergraduate corp dev seats are rare. Many students enter through finance rotation programs or after banking.
- 2Phone screenTypicalA recruiter call on your background and why this company.
- 3First roundTypicalInterviews on strategy and M&A: why companies buy, how you would value a target, and product sense.
- 4Final roundTypicalSeveral interviews with the team and business partners, sometimes a case on a possible acquisition.
- 5OfferTypicalUsually within days of the final round.
Timing between stages shows on each program page once students report it. Firms change formats by year and office; the firm's own invite is the final word.
What it tends to weighTypical of a large technology company's corporate development team
- Build, buy, or partner: buying is only one way to get a capability.
- Product and technology judgment: what a target does that the company cannot build fast enough.
- Working with the business units that own the plan after the deal closes.
- behavioral
- 4 questions
- markets
- 4 questions
- modeling
- 4 questions
- technicals
- 8 questions
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