Allen & Company SA Interview

Just curious to see if anyone here has interviewed with Allen & Co. before for a SA position. If so, what was the interview process like? I've checked the company review database on WSO, but it only contains two reviews.

 

Congrats man - heard they take 3-4 analysts out of 500+ applicants. So good luck rather than congrats, but landing an interview is impressive enough.

I'm guessing you should have a deep understanding of trends and issues in media and entertainment as well as a solid technical background. Since they do mostly M&A, you should probably know about that, i.e. accretion/dilution, etc.

 
BigBucks:
What is this Allen & Co.? Ik they are media but what makes them special? they sound more exclusive than megafunds...

From what I've heard, they get their hands in a bunch of the highest profile media deals. And Herb Allen holds the Sun Valley Conference in Idaho every year that has a lot of big players attending. From what I sense, a lot of monkeys would choose Allen & Co. over GS TMT, which is REALLY saying something on WSO.

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...i can assure you that majority of people would never choose allen over GS TMT...

They are very active in internet and digital media world, but that's about it, kinda like a qatalyst in tech but with a smaller scale of transactions

 
Ricqles:
...i can assure you that majority of people would never choose allen over GS TMT...

They are very active in internet and digital media world, but that's about it, kinda like a qatalyst in tech but with a smaller scale of transactions

They just advised on Carlyle's bid for CommScope - so no, I don't think they're purely a media shop.

 

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