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Goldman
Sachs
Morgan StanleyJ.P.MorganBank of
America
citiBarclaysUBSDeutsche
Bank
EvercoreCenterview
PARTNERS
LazardPJT
PARTNERS
Moelis
& COMPANY
P/W/PQatalystGuggenheimJefferiesHoulihan
Lokey
Goldman
Sachs
Morgan StanleyJ.P.MorganBank of
America
citiBarclaysUBSDeutsche
Bank
EvercoreCenterview
PARTNERS
LazardPJT
PARTNERS
Moelis
& COMPANY
P/W/PQatalystGuggenheimJefferiesHoulihan
Lokey

We Get It. Recruiting here is Different.

Coffee Chat

Learn how to set them up, what to ask, and how to walk away with the most information, and the referral.

Cold Email

We walk you through sending your first cold email, the kind that actually gets a reply.

Resume Editing

Polished line by line to banking standards, quantifying your results and spotlighting deal experience.

Reframing Your Background

We translate your experience back home into the language US recruiters instantly understand.

Timeline Planning

Working backward from summer-internship deadlines, we hand you a week-by-week action plan so you never miss a window.

Mock Interviews

Real questions in a true-to-life HireVue environment, pinpointing your blind spots so you walk in calm and ready.

Technical Foundations

Accounting, valuation, DCF, LBO, and every core concept, taught systematically until it truly clicks.

Behavioral Stories

We sharpen your behavioral answers so your story stands out for all the right reasons.

Market News

What's happening in the market? We brief you on the deals and headlines that matter, framed for exactly how they get asked.

Everything You Need to Land the Offer

8/ 10
Mixed · BB
Structure
8
Technical
8
Communication
7

Mock Interviews

Practice like it's the real thing, from HireVue to the final round. Every answer is scored against genuine bulge-bracket standards, with the exact fixes that move you from “fine” to a strong hire.

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Accounting & Financial Statements
Acc: 83%
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Valuation Overview
Acc: 78%
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DCF
Acc: 50%
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M&A
Acc: 33%

Technical Drills

Every question is adapted from real, first-hand interviews, covering accounting, valuation, DCF, LBO, M&A, and every core topic, while automatically tracking your weak spots.

Banking ReadinessFoundation
Relevant Finance Experience3/4
Relevant internship, but not deal-side IB.
Story Readiness1/4
Bullets list duties, not results — no stories to tell yet.

Resume Analysis

Upload your resume and get an honest, five-dimension readiness score, line-by-line fixes for your bullets and formatting, and exactly what to strengthen to go from foundation to a top-tier offer.

Motivation & Culture Fit3 TYPES
Story & Motivation
•Why investment banking?
Not startedBuild →
Behavioral5 TYPES
Work Ethic & Pressure
•Tell me about a time you worked under tight deadlines.
Not startedBuild →

Build Your Behavioral Question Bank

From your banking motivation to every “tell me about a time when…”, we cover all eight types of behavioral questions, shaping answers with real, specific detail using the STAR framework.

Recruiting PlanSummer Analyst 2027
JunSepDecMar
Networking
15–25 calls
Applications
Submit + refer
Interviews
Superdays

Plan Your Entire Recruiting Season, Week by Week

Tailored to your recruiting cycle and graduation date, so you always know exactly what to do this week.

Walk me through a DCF?
Four steps. Project FCF, discount at WACC, add a terminal value, then bridge to equity value.
Ride a quick calcWhy WACC?

Ask a Banker, Not a Chatbot

Your coach knows your background, your target banks and where you are in recruiting, so every answer fits you: how to pitch your story, what to say in a coffee chat, how to walk through a DCF.

The Fed & rates
“What can you tell me about the current interest rates and the yield curve?”
Lead with

The current 10-year yield is 4.75%, and the 2/10 spread is 47 basis points, indicating a healthy economic outlook.

  • •The 10-year Treasury yield is at 4.75%. This is a long-term interest rate, often used as a benchmark.
  • •The 2-year Treasury yield is at 4.28%. This is a short-term interest rate, which is more sensitive to changes in the Fed's policy.
  • •The difference between these two rates, known as the 2/10 spread, is 47 basis points (0.47%). A positive spread indicates a normal yield curve, suggesting economic growth.

Walk In Market-Ready

A daily brief of the deals, sector moves, and headlines interviewers actually ask about, refreshed around the clock. Each story comes with why it matters and how to talk about it, so you're never caught flat.

M&AHealthcare· 3 min read
AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Discuss Possible Merger

AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers are reportedly in talks to merge. This could create a larger pharmaceutical company with more resources for research and development.

Why this matters for interviews
  • •Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can reshape entire industries and create new market leaders.
  • •Understanding these deals helps investment bankers assess potential future trends and opportunities.
  • •Pharmaceutical companies often have high valuations, making this a significant deal.
Key takeaways for interviews
1.M&A activity indicates confidence in the market and can lead to stock price changes.
2.Pharma mergers can lead to innovations in drug development and market expansion.
3.Investment bankers need to analyze the strategic fit and financial implications of such deals.
SeekingAlpha · 8/2/2026Read source →

Never Fall Behind on Market News

Curated headlines with the interview angle spelled out on each, so you always know which deals and market moves are worth bringing up, and exactly why they matter.

Other tools make your questions up. We didn't.

These come from real bulge bracket and boutique interview rounds, refreshed with the latest materials and signed off by a former bulge bracket banker before they reach you. Accounting, valuation, DCF, M&A, LBO.

Hundreds of students have prepped and landed offers on it.

1

Tell us about yourself

School background, target banks, visa status

2

Prep in your language

Study the concepts, then practice delivering them in English

3

Walk in confident

Track progress and sharpen your answers

“From Fudan to Columbia to a Goldman Sachs offer. LandIB got me through every interview.”

Ming H.

Columbia → Goldman Sachs IBD

“The behavioral coaching taught me how to tell my story in a way that actually resonated with American interviewers.”

Sarah C.

NYU Stern → Evercore

“I understood LBO logic in Chinese first, then practiced answering in English. That method made me twice as fast as my peers.”

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Wharton → Morgan Stanley

“Knowing which banks sponsor H1B saved me weeks of wasted applications.”

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Michigan Ross → Lazard

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