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It's hidden as a comment to Vishal's post, but Fred Kang had a great answer."I agree that initial calls from VCs, both from associates and partners, rarely represent a desire to invest in you. But it IS a desire to learn enough to decide if you're an interesting company to invest in."To reiterate: it's irrational to expect that every VC who takes a meeting with you already wants to invest in your company. From analyst to partner, the majority of meetings are with companies that seem interesting and are worth learning more about.I'm also disappointed by what seems to be conventional wisdom that analysts only call firms for sneaky competitive due diligence or to learn more about an industry broadly. The former is insulting, and I certainly hope and believe that it is not applicable to anyone I know. Most VC analysts probably want to be entrepreneurs at some point, not to mention have some ethics, and wouldn't take a job where the day to day activities consisted of lying to or deceiving entrepreneurs.As far as calling a company to learn more about an industry, that's obviously an important side-effect of each conversation I have. But overall, I'm trying to be effective with my time, and that means finding interesting startups that are likely investment opportunities. So when I reach out to a company, I'm usually looking for 3 things:1) Be in an industry that a partner at my firm is interested in.2) Have an interesting product/service/solution.3) Have some reasonable belief that the company is doing well and at a stage where we'd be interested in investing.As I've said in another post, entrepreneurs should consider the flip side of this, and choose only to take calls with companies that:1) Invest in the area your company is in2) Invest in the stage / round size that your company would consider raising.Mobile Site

Getting into Edelweiss is no easy job. The interview process is pretty tough. I had attended an interview at their office in Mumbai in 2015.They first started off with a pre-placememt talk. Explained about the company and their products and policies, what your job will be, how tough it'll be and how much you'll earn, all that stuff.It was followed by an aptitude test. There were two different sets of papers for the test.The first set consisted of 60 mathematical questions which were numerical problems, more like problems involving decimals and fractions. For example, 0.00003*0.005 = ? I hope you get the idea. All the questions were mathematical operations on decimal numbers and fractions. Now, before you think yeah I can solve it with some time in my hand. Well, that's exactly what you won't be getting. We were told to solve these questions in 10 minutes. You read that right. Since it's a financial services company, they obviously expect you to be good with numbers.The second set had general aptitude questions. They covered quantitative aptitude, logical and verbal reasoning, a few puzzles etc. There were 48 questions and we had to solve them in 45 mins. So in all we had 55 mins of test, more like an hour since our examiner was a nice guy. Now the time limit isn't fixed for a particular set, which means you can take more than 10 mins for the first set but then you will be having less time for the aptitude questions.Well I didn't clear the first test, obviously. I don't know if anyone did. But we were told that after the first round there would be one or two rounds of personal interview. The questions would be about some basic financial concepts and not into anything deeper, since they were hiring engineering graduates, and may be some interesting HR questions and some logical puzzles. So, it depends on how you present yourself, your confidence and communication skills will matter more.I hope this helps you. Although I can't guarantee if the process will be the same as we had. Try hard and focus on numerical problems, I think there are some shortcuts for those mathematical operations that might help you with it. Also study some basic financial concepts. With enough practice you can crack the interview. It's a very good company. Once you get in its certain that you'll make a lot of money. All the very best and I hope you ace the test.