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How He Crack JP Morgan Chase! 🚀 | Online Test, Case Study & GD Roadmap | Interview Experience

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Key takeaways

Business

Overview / Role Track

Harsh Dari (MIT Jaipur B.Tech Mechanical Engineering, class of 2026) was selected for both:

  • Corporate Risk (part of Risk/Compliance Program)
  • Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)

Eligibility Criteria (as stated)

During Harsh’s year:

  • No active backlogs
  • CGPA ≥ 6.0

For juniors (next year update mentioned):

  • CGPA ≥ 7.0 for both CIB and Risk roles

Recruitment Funnel / Process Flow (company-side)

On-campus participation

JP Morgan Chase visited campus with 3 roles:

  • 2 roles under Risk/Compliance Program
    • Corporate Risk
    • Consumer & Community Banking Risk Program
  • 1 role under Corporate & Investment Banking

Enrollment and selection

  • Candidates could enroll in all three.
  • Selection into roles was resume-based.
  • Candidates selected for 2 roles then went through separate interview pipelines by role type.

Online Test Details (structure + topics)

Corporate Risk role

  • 45 minutes, 30 questions
  • 2 sections:
    • 27 quantitative aptitude questions
      • Harsh described them as “pretty easy” with practice; not very difficult
    • 3 comprehension-type questions

CIB role

  • 45 minutes, 45 questions
  • 4 sections:
    • Marketing awareness — 10
    • Accounting & Finance — 10
    • English language — 10
    • Quantitative aptitude — 15

Difficulty notes

  • Aptitude: easy with practice
  • Marketing/accounting/finance: need basic finance-world knowledge

Interview Rounds (by role)

Corporate Risk (3 interview rounds; no GD)

Round 1: Technical (~20 minutes total)

  • 10–15 minutes: “grill” on resume
    • projects, roles, responsibilities
  • 5–10 minutes: basic finance/accounting questions

Round 2: Technical / Business Case

  • Business case: multiplex owner scenario
  • Candidate had to assume:
    • number of shows
    • number of screens
    • weekday/weekend capacity and utilization
  • Then estimate:
    • monthly income / gross salary based on assumptions
  • Followed by 5–6 minutes:
    • basic accounting/finance questions

Round 3: HR round (formality on day 1)

  • “Why JP Morgan?”
  • “Why switch domains” from Mechanical Engineering to finance/banking/risk

CIB (GD + 3 interview rounds = 4 rounds total, GD included)

  • GD (details below)
  • Round 1: resume/project + basics
    • resume/projects + basic accounting & finance
  • Round 2: technical/current affairs + accounting/finance
    • accounting/finance questions + references to:
      • share market / corporate world trends
      • “World Bank or whatever was trending” (as stated)
  • Round 3: HR
    • Example question: “What do you understand by equity diversion and inclusion?”
    • “Why JP Morgan?”
    • “Order of preference” among roles

Group Discussion (GD) Playbook / Topic

Topic

  • “Renewables shaping India’s energy landscape”

Timing

  • Topic emailed the previous night
  • ~12 hours preparation window
  • GD started around 9:00 a.m.

Harsh’s GD strategy

  • Starting/ending can help, but impact matters more than position
  • Avoid repeating points already likely to be said
  • Prepare less-common arguments
    • If you speak later, you may have an upper hand because your angle may be less covered
  • If starting/ending:
    • Ensure depth—don’t do it “for the sake of doing so”

Preparation Resources / Tactics (actionable)

  • Started preparing around beginning of 3rd year
    • (not continuously for 3–4 years)
  • Used forage.com virtual job simulations
    • Completed a JP Morgan job experience project to understand what investment bankers do
  • Used ChatGPT extensively
    • asked it for a structured preparation plan
  • Used YouTube/courses for additional learning

Resume Strategy / Examples (what got pulled into interviews)

Harsh included:

  • Multiple Position of Responsibilities (PoRs)
  • Projects:
    • Forage.com DCF project
    • Machine learning project: loan eligibility prediction
    • Mechanical-aligned electronics project: smart fan
  • Extracurricular:
    • Internal institute basketball team
    • Member of different clubs

Interview emphasis

  • Interviewers “grilled” him on projects and the concepts behind them

Final Advice / Interview Management “Playbook”

  • Channel the interview
    • Assume interviewers are there to hire, not reject
  • Control the direction of questioning
    • During project briefing:
      • Don’t start by explaining your USP or an “intriguing term”
      • Explain context/implementation first
      • Then drop the term briefly so interviewers probe it back (often giving you a topic you’re strongest in)
    • This reduces the risk of being pulled into areas you haven’t prepared
  • Mindset
    • Manage flow; answer only from prepared depth when possible

Metrics / KPIs Mentioned

  • No explicit business KPIs (revenue, CAC, LTV, churn, etc.) were provided.
  • The only “quant” target mentioned was in the multiplex business case, where the task was to compute monthly income/gross salary from assumed operating parameters (shows/screens/capacity).

Presenters / Sources

  • Presenter/source referenced in the subtitles: Harsh Dari (MIT Jaipur; JP Morgan Chase placement; interviewee sharing his experience)
  • Channel/host mentioned (non-specific): Hersa / “Hersa” (interviewer prompt in subtitles; name not otherwise clarified)

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