# FORESIGHT(2018): Summer Internship Credit Suisse | Rajdeep Biswas

Student Welfare Group, IIT Kharagpur
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I am Rajdeep Biswas, Final Year Undergraduate student of the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering. I did my Summer Internship at Credit Suisse as a Financial Technology Analyst.
Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, it maintains offices in all major financial centres around the world. As the second-largest bank in Switzerland, it is considered a “Bulge Bracket” bank providing services in investment banking, private banking, asset management, and shared services. Credit Suisse is known for its strict bank-client and banking secrecy practices.
There was an online written test followed by a 3 round interview.
The online written test had 40 Questions for 60 minutes. The questions were from basic Mathematics, English, Quant, and Programming.
The basic Mathematics were from ratio proportions, average, fractions, etc.
The English were some fill in the blanks, paragraph questions, etc.
The Programming was detecting errors from some lines of code, predicting the output etc.
Calculators weren’t allowed for the test. So this test was a game of speed.
After clearing the online written test, there were three rounds of interview.The first round was a Technical round where they asked questions about my CV like projects, scholarships, and skills. Also some fundamental questions from PDS like arrays, linked list are also asked.
The second round was Managerial round which was similar to the technical round, but they ask about some situations/life events of mine which was difficult to handle for me, but I was able to handle it successfully.
The final round was HR round where they ask about my interest, strengths, weakness, life goals, plans for further studies and why I want to join Credit Suisse as I am from a circuit branch with a good CGPA (9.0+) and Credit Suisse is a bank? Also, he asked me what I know about Credit Suisse?
After giving satisfactory answers to HR, I was selected for IT profile in Credit Suisse.
Brush up 6th to 10th-grade Mathematics will be useful. Some knowledge of Algorithms and PDS will be excellent. Other sources like puzzles from Geeksforgeeks, 50 Challenging Problems in Probability will be helpful.
I worked on a web application that takes some input from the user then send it to the backend JAVA server that will fetch the data from the database server and then display the data to the user on the browser.
The technologies I have used were HTML, Angular 2, Typescript, Angular Material, Java 1.8, JAVA Rest Web service, JAVA Spring Framework, SQL.
Credit Suisse’s culture is just excellent. The first main and different thing was we were instructed not to use Sir/Madam. Yes, you read it right, no Sir/Madam. You have to call everyone in the office by their first name regardless of how much senior they are to you, but you should also have politeness in your speech and actions.
The TA seniors (Those who joined as an employee less than two years) are great, and they gave the most funda for the office and its culture.
The office timings are flexible, no in or out time monitored, however on an average you need to work around 8 hours per day.
All the managers and TA seniors are approachable for any problem. All of them encourages new ideas and questions.
You will get free office cab services from your home address to the office, but your home should be in the same city.
There were endless treats from seniors, managers, and colleagues during the internship.
Security for employees is excellent, especially for women. There are many types of securities present here. One example is there will always be a security guard in the office cab beside the driver if there is any female employee in the cab during the evening and late-night hours.
For employees, there is an exclusive system. The employees can change their team after each year. So if you are not so sure about your career in finance, you can join Credit Suisse in IT/Analyst and later change to Finance team.
Also if you want to learn how a private and investment bank works and how they use technologies to maintain its security, then it will be an excellent place for you.
And finally, if you want to know your possibility or prerequisites needed for a career in Finance then go ahead.
Do read about the company before going to interview. If possible, please look about 2008’s great depression and where was Credit Suisse’s position at that time. Keep calm and stay focused. Great Luck.