CIBC

The assessment stage can combine pre-recorded video interviews, Microsoft Office and Excel tests, coding tests, simulations, French-language proficiency checks, and whiteboarding exercises, depending on the role. Interviews are run by recruiters and team leaders, virtually or on-site at the talent team's discretion. The firm asks candidates to wait 30 days before following up, so an applicant stacking multiple Canadian bank applications should sequence other follow-ups around that lag rather than chasing CIBC mid-cycle.

The internships and co-op page lists three student programs:

• Student Leadership Academy – one work term, Summer/Fall/Winter intakes, across Technology, Wealth, Finance, Communications and other functions
• CIBC Spark Program – selective top-student track with a customised work-term journey
• CIBC Capital Markets Program – Winter, Summer and Fall terms; undergraduate and graduate; applications accepted year-round

The post-graduate page lists four full-time programs:

• Graduate Leadership Development Program (GLDP) – two years, four 6-month rotations across product, strategy, risk and finance; MBA/master's graduates with 3+ years' experience
• Technology Leadership Advancement Program (TLAP) – two years, three 8-month rotations across payments, cards, wealth, capital-markets and retail-banking technology; master's/MBA with 3 years' tech experience
• Capital Markets Summer Associate Internship – summer placement in Global Markets, Corporate Banking, Investment Banking or Global Transaction Banking, for first-year graduate students
• Quantitative Associate Rotational Program – two years, four 6-month rotations across Capital Markets, Risk Management, Internal Audit and Model Validation; master's or doctoral graduates in financial engineering, math, statistics or physics

Because the student and post-graduate tracks recruit on different calendars through different teams, a master's-level candidate should decide early which cohort they are targeting – applying across both does not give two attempts at the same role.

The Capital Markets Summer Associate Internship sits separately, on the front-office summer-associate track. For a STEM postgraduate the named Quant program is the most direct route in – it is a defined two-year track that does not require first entering a generalist analyst cohort to reach quantitative Capital Markets work.