Houlihan Lokey Phone Interview

So I was able to secure a phone in a few weeks with Houlihan Lokey, I was wondering if anyone might be able to offer me any advice on how best to prepare for it.

Thanks for all the help.

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I went through a phone interview and multiple rounds of on site interviews with them a few years back... I'm not really sure if the phone interview was weighted more towards tech or behavioral, but I would know everything, I know that through the whole process they hit both types of questions. One of my on site interviews was a 30-min technical grilling, but others were all fit and just sitting at the table shooting the shit.

Know your stuff though, not an easy interview process.

 
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Is this for FT or SA and which office? I went through all of the interviews for FT in LA and unfortunately didn't get the offer. My phone interview wasn't to bad. I went through my summer experience and was asked to walk through valuations I did as a SA in detail. A few technical accounting questions (they are big on accounting, at my superday they only asked technical accounting questions). If I remember correctly from my phone interview, I had to walk through the effect on 3 statements of an equipment purchase financed by 50% cash and 50% debt (given an interest rate) assuming a straight line depreciation. They are big on why HL and why MM? Also know about the group, if it's corp fin, they do pure advisory, FAS is all valuation / fairness opinions, and restructuring speaks for itself.

 

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