Associate 1

Status
1st Year Associate at
Group/Division/Type
Restructuring
City
London
Interviewed
May 2013
Overall experience
Negative
Difficulty
Easy

General Interview Information

Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month

Interview Details

What did the interview consist of?
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Skills Test
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
Interview started with 2 senior associates meeting me at the same time. Off the bat was quite disappointed with how they were looking forward to meeting me. Their introductions were of 15 seconds each, not mentioning names of previous employees (very average houses as I already knew from their linkedin profiles from when I got told who I was going to meet). I could generally sense they didn't really care what my story was and that they were mainly concerned with getting out of the meeting room for some call they had. Technical and fit questions quite straight forward, mainly around why HL and why restructuring (my background is BB IBD) and questions around debt and changes in 3 statement projections.
Post this I had 4 hours to build an LBO model and a short word statement on whether or not the company modelled was a good investment.
A week later I met with 1 VP and 1 Director who seemed pretty interesting and made me feel much more at home. Mainly fit questions and understanding who I was. VP had 2 technical simple questions on valuation and debt.
A couple of days later met with more senior members of the team who wanted to meet me and know about me before any formal offer was made.
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