The interview process usually starts after you apply for a job through LinkedIn, a company website, referral, or email, where your resume is first screened by HR or an ATS system to check whether your education, skills, and experience match the job requirements; if shortlisted, you receive a call for an initial HR screening round where they ask general questions like “tell me about yourself,” your skills, expected salary, and availability to join, mainly to check your communication skills and basic fit for the role, and if you clear this round, you may be asked to take an aptitude, technical, or skill-based test (especially for finance or analyst roles, this can include accounting, Excel, or basic finance questions), after which you move to the technical interview round taken by a manager or senior team member who tests your subject knowledge, practical understanding, and asks questions from your CV, internships, and projects (like DCF, financial statements, ratios, or case studies), and if you perform well, you go to the final or managerial round which focuses more on your attitude, problem-solving ability, behavior, teamwork, and long-term fit with the company, and once you clear all rounds, HR discusses salary, joining date, and other terms with you and then finally issues the offer letter.