Highbridge Capital Management Interview Questions (2024) - 4 Entries

Highbridge Capital Management Interview Questions

4 total interview insight submissions

Interview Experience (70%)

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3.8

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Interview Difficulty (86%)

The Interview Difficulty is a score ranging from very difficult (red) to very easy (green) generated based on the Interview Insights at this company.

The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. The higher the number, the more difficult the interviews on average. If you hover over the various sections of the doughnut, you will see the % breakdown of each score given.

The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more insights, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire data set.

3.3

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Interviews at Highbridge Capital Management

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Year

Job Title

Group/Division

Location

Experience

Difficulty

2nd Year Analyst

Year 2017

Job Title 2nd Year Analyst

Group/Division Energy

Location Houston

Experience

Very Positive

Difficulty

Difficult

1st Year Analyst

Year 2015

Job Title 1st Year Analyst

Group/Division Equity Hedge

Location New York

Experience

Neutral

Difficulty

Average

2nd Year Analyst

Year 2014

Job Title 2nd Year Analyst

Group/Division Investor Relations

Location New York

Experience

Neutral

Difficulty

Easy

Summer Associate Intern

Year 2014

Job Title Summer Associate Intern

Group/Division Technology

Location New York

Experience

Positive

Difficulty

Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - Highbridge Capital Management Examples

Analyst Interview - Energy

Anonymous employee in Houston

Interviewed: October 2017

Date Submitted: Nov 29, 2018

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

In-person

Length of Process

2-3 months

Application

1 on 1 Interview

Group Interview

Presentation

Skills Test

Drug Test

Background Check

Interview

5 round interview process consisting of 3 interviews with the team, 1 case study and 1 meeting with the fund partners.

Questions centered around upstream deal experience and ability to think strategically about credit investing. High focus on fit, interest in credit (but not necessarily deep experience in credit or leveraged finance) and modeling experience.

Overall process spanned 2.5 months from first interview to offer letter. Team was flexible around scheduling.

Interview Questions

Had to pull together a 15-page case study with model, industry analysis and asset-level valuation on an E&P company and present to the team. Key ask was to figure out whether to invest and at what level of the capital structure. Leaned heavily on upstream knowledge and recent deal comps as credit experience was limited here.

Toughest questions were behavioral ones centered around taking leadership in M&A processes. Was also asked for my opinion on specific operators in the industry in basins that the fund was invested in and that I had deal experience in.

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Investment Analyst Interview - Equity Hedge

Anonymous interview candidate in New York

Interviewed: January 2015

Date Submitted: Jan 22, 2016

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Recruiter

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

1 on 1 Interview

Interview

Met for a 1 on 1 interview that was fit and technical. Spent about 15min talking about my "story" and then the rest of the interview answering rapid fire technicals.

Interview Questions

If you receive 1 every year into perpetuity, how much would you pay for that today?
If it costs you $1 to roll a dice, and the payout is $7 if you hit the number 5, would you roll?
There was also an accretion/dilution question which is vague as to the detail.

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Investor Relations Analyst Interview - Investor Relations

Anonymous interview candidate in New York

Interviewed: December 2014

Date Submitted: Feb 09, 2015

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Employee Referral

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

1 on 1 Interview

Interview

went to the firm for the first time and met with associate and MD. was asked to return and met a second MD and a VP. was asked to return for a third time where I spoke to the second MD again as well as a third MD and an analyst. At that point I had met the whole team. The questions were all behavioral.

Interview Questions

Interview questions were very basic and were your standard behavioral interview questions. Questions included why Investor Relations, where do you see yourself in 10 years, why did you choose the undergraduate school you attend, tell me about your last performance review, tell me about your favorite class.

Other behavioral interview questions included what are your strengths, what are your weaknesses, tell me about your quantitative experiences

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Software Development Intern Interview - Technology

Anonymous interview candidate in New York

Interviewed: March 2014

Date Submitted: Mar 12, 2014

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

Phone Interview

1 on 1 Interview

Skills Test

Interview

I had applied through OCR at my school. The initial interview was challenging because I had thought there would be only behavioral questions. Instead, the interview launched immediately into technical questions. I was asked the basics of object-oriented programming as well as questions about data structures. After the on-campus interview I was contacted for final round interviews the next day, which consisted of four 1-on-1 interviews with developers that asked me questions ranging from algorithms to writing programs on paper.

Interview Questions

Given a sorted array find a way to randomize it and print out the results. Write out your solution on a piece of paper using the programming language of your choice (or pseudocode). I started with a C++ rand() function but couldn't remember the exact value it returns (answer: a number from 0 to 32767).

Using the programming language of your choice print out the leaves of a binary tree. I was able to traverse the tree but got stuck with traversing up a node then down a node to the next set of leaves.

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