BMO Capital Markets · Investment banking analyst · Summer Analyst / Analyst
One-way recorded video interview
BMO's signature recorded video round: behavioral, plus one markets question
What they actually ask
The question shapes this round uses. Larpy does not read these out. It builds each one from your own resume, because the generic version is the one you have already rehearsed.
- “Tell me about yourself, or tell me something that is not on your resume.”
- “Why investment banking, and why now given the market?”
- “Why BMO Capital Markets?”
- “Tell me about a time you worked on a team.”
- “What is a market or company you have been following, and what do you make of it?”
What this round is judged on
- Motivation · a specific 'why BMO' and 'why banking now'
- Communication · concise, structured answers under a timer
- Markets awareness · a genuine, articulate current-events view
- Presence · composure and energy to camera with no interviewer
Where this round sits
BMO Capital Markets’s published process. Lime marks the stage this round runs.
- 01Application (Workday)
- 02One-way recorded video interviewthis round
- 03First-round interview
- 04Superday
- 05Offer
What happens in each stage›
- Application (Workday)
- Online through BMO's Workday campus portal; resume and transcript, penultimate-year students. Deadlines fall in February, roughly a year before the May start.
- One-way recorded video interview
- BMO is known for a distinctive recorded video round early in the funnel: preset prompts, timed answers, no live interviewer. Behavioral, plus typically one markets or current-events question.
- First-round interview
- A short recruiter screen and a VP- or associate-led interview. Fit-weighted, with light technicals mixed in.
- Superday
- Fast, back-to-back sessions: a behavioral seat with an analyst, a technical seat with an associate (sometimes a live DCF in Excel), and a VP fit conversation.
- Offer
- Decisions move quickly, often within days of the superday.
Sources
Built from what BMO Capital Markets publishes about its own process and from real interview data. No leaked question lists. The questions you get are generated against your own resume, so they are not from anyone else's interview.
Program existence and campus-recruiting framing for BMO Capital Markets. Bot-blocked (403) to automated fetches; a human can read it.
Investment-banking analyst postings: role, qualifications, penultimate-year eligibility, Toronto / Vancouver / Calgary locations, February deadlines. Individual postings rotate as cycles close.
Analyst compensation and level context. No interview-process content.
Sources last checked . Hiring loops change, so this date is the honest limit on everything above.