Search Fund Accelerator Interview Questions
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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.
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The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. 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 reviews). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to the simple company average and away from the average of the entire data set.
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Interview Questions & Answers - Search Fund Accelerator Examples
Summer Private Equity Analyst Interview - Mergers and Acquisitions
Why private equity?
What made you pick this company specifically?
Where do you think the markets is going to be in the next six months?
Which portfolio company did you find most attractive and why?
Why is your relevant background useful for this role?
What value can you bring to this role- how can you help me?
What is your biggest weakness and what have you done to improve it?
Are you investing in any stocks? If so which are the top 3?
Private Equity Intern Interview - Private Equity
Private Equity Summer Analyst Interview - Mergers and Acquisitions
They are also going to ask you what a search fund is... Just say something like it is a mini version of private equity and that there is an individual that raises money from investors to find a company to buy and run it as the partial owner and CEO.
They may also give you a CIM to go through beforehand and they will ask you to tell them if it is worth investing in or not.
Private Equity Intern Interview - Generalist
2. If you were to invest in real estate in a city, which city would you pick and why?
I am extremely confused how this is supposed to be a minimum of 500 characters unless you are getting a case it is extremely unlikely that any question is going to be that long. Not only that, but the add another question button doesn't work. It would make more sense if the total number of characters across all questions had to be 500 so you can give more but it doesn't make sense in the current state.
Private Equity Intern Interview - Generalist
2. If you were to invest in real estate in a city, which city would you pick and why?
I am extremely confused how this is supposed to be a minimum of 500 characters unless you are getting a case it is extremely unlikely that any question is going to be that long. Not only that, but the add another question button doesn't work. It would make more sense if the total number of characters across all questions had to be 500 so you can give more but it doesn't make sense in the current state.
Private Equity Analyst Intern Interview - Private Equity
You'll also be asked what the difference is between SFA and a traditional PE firm. This one threw me off guard because I thought they'd only ask about what a search fund does. SFA, is an investor that backs multiple search funds, each of which act as a mini-PE fund.
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