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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when most of the senior execs left for the night at the end of a long work day?

2. Who were the majority of the people in the word processing department?

3. At the end of Bonuses, Reviews, and Compensation, what became clear to Troob and Rolfe?

4. In The Merry-Go-Round, how many hours were usually left between the completion of edits of the pitch book until the presentation of the book?

5. What is the copy center responsible for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Information at DLJ was kept under the highest security. Whether discussing new clients, brokering deals, or giving out bonuses, it was better for ones career if they did not give away too much information.

Why did the bank operate in this fashion?

Give reasons to support their mode of operation as well as reasons to discredit this way of operating.

Essay Topic 2

Rolfe and Troob survived abuse, long work hours, ridiculous amounts of work, and aggravating travel arrangements to make a lot of money.

In your opinion, was it all worth it?

Could they have chosen different career paths that would have offered them less stress and the same amount of money?

Do you think that Rolfe and Troob should have just paid their dues in the investment banking world?

Essay Topic 3

If you could have been an investment banker working at DLJ with Rolfe and Troob, would you have followed their lead and tried to leave the company? Would you have tried to pay your dues and move up higher into the company?

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