137 Ventures

Investment Banking

Est Annual Revenue:
$5m+
AUM:
$500m-$999m
Industry: Venture Capital

137 Ventures Interview Questions

19 total interview insight submissions

Interview Experience (71%)

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3.3
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (92%)

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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.

2.9
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

Interviews at 137 Ventures

YearPositionLocationGroup/DivisionExperienceDifficulty
2018AnalystNew YorkN/ANeutralAverage
2016Summer AnalystNew YorkGeneralistNeutralEasy
2017InternTorontoVenture CapitalVery PositiveEasy
2009Financial AnalystNew YorkGeneralistNeutralAverage
2014AnalystNew YorkN/ANeutralAverage
2017Summer STHong KongQuantitative ResearchPositiveAverage
2016riskshanghaiMergers and AcquisitionsNegativeDifficult
2016Working StudentBerlinBusiness DevelopmentNeutralAverage
2016Quantitative Research InternSingaporeQuantitative ResearchNeutralAverage
2015Operations analystBerlinN/ANeutralEasy

Analyst Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in New York

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: January 2018 Date Submitted: Aug 08, 2018

Application

Phone Interview
Group Interview

Interview

Info session on campus followed by phone call and then interview at local venue with full-time analysts from firm.

Interview Questions

Interview relatively short but went through a case study and asked general questions about companies I like. Emphasis on personality as well which is expected of a relationship-oriented business like this firm. Not much else to say. It went reasonably well.


Interview relatively short but went through a case study and asked general questions about companies I like. Emphasis on personality as well which is expected of a relationship-oriented business like this firm. Not much else to say. It went reasonably well.
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Summer Analyst Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in New York

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Employee Referral

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: March 2016 Date Submitted: Aug 06, 2017

Application

Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview

Interview

Reached out to the managing partner through email and he set me up with a phone interview with an associate.

Interview Questions

The questions were pretty basic fit questions. Just asked about my previous internship experiences and how they are all related to the job I wanted (private equity search fund). The questions were pretty basic fit questions. Just asked about my previous internship experiences and how they are all related to the job I wanted (private equity search fund). The questions were pretty basic fit questions. Just asked about my previous internship experiences and how they are all related to the job I wanted (private equity search fund).
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Intern Interview - Venture Capital

Anonymous employee in Toronto

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: 2017 Date Submitted: Jul 19, 2017

Application

Phone Interview
Group Interview
Skills Test

Interview

Was contacted over the phone that I was a candidate for the job and was asked what time works best to come into the office for the interview. Came in and was interviewed by two business managers and completed a short case study afterwards.

Interview Questions

They asked if there were any questions I was expecting to be asked and any questions I wasn't expecting to be asked. I blanked a little on the latter of the two but talked my way out of it. Asked mostly other basic questions such as strengths and weaknesses along with why I should be hired over another candidate and so on. Also asked if I would be available to work overtime on some specific days over the next few months and my expected working hours and wage. Overall, the questions were very straightforward and the two people conducting the interview were kind.
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Financial Analyst Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in New York

Outcome

Declined Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

1-2 months
Interviewed: 2009 Date Submitted: Apr 03, 2017

Application

Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Presentation

Interview

onine application, call with recruiter, then in person case study and interview with group and MD. easy.

Interview Questions

The case study was unexpected. Did not expect a case study for a corporate banking position. good process though. The case study asked ti analyze a company in a different country and risks with the business both qualitiative and quant. Not too hard but was random. Where does Depreciation usually show up on the Income Statement?Walk me through how Depreciation going up by $10 would affect the statements. tell me about yourself. Let’s say I could only look at 2 statements to assess a company’s prospects – which 2
would I use and why?
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Analyst Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in New York

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: 2014 Date Submitted: Mar 12, 2017

Application

Phone Interview
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test

Interview

The interview process was fairly easy. It consisted of a phone screening and then interview at the firm.

Interview Questions

Describe a time when you worked with someone difficult. Walk me through a DCF. What are some ways that you can value a company. Describe a time when you worked in a team setting. All of these are possible questions that I received. Another one was what's going on in the markets right now and in the venture capital industry? Have you ever worked at a startup? What can you contribute to the firm? Walk me through your resume. Tell me about a time you failed. What are 4 strengths and weaknesses that you have.
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Summer ST Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous employee in Hong Kong

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

2-3 months
Interviewed: September 2017 Date Submitted: Mar 06, 2017

Application

Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview

Interview

Two-round phone interviews and following by three on-site interviews.People are nice. Two on-site interviews are about technical aspects. All others are focusing on just behavioral/motivational

Interview Questions

I was describing my experience of winning a trading competition. And I was asked about how do you see your ideas in trading competition could be applied to real life world. I tried some answers, but did not get a very good one. That is the one I only miss to get right in the interview. So overall interview is ok. I am lucky to pass the stage. Be prepared for out-of-box questions if you are really interested in sales and trading area. But if you miss that is ok. just make sure you are solid with your fundamentals
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risk Interview - Mergers and Acquisitions

Anonymous interview candidate in shanghai

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: 2016 Date Submitted: Jan 21, 2017

Application

1 on 1 Interview

Interview

it is one on one interview

Interview Questions

what is var
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Working Student Interview - Business Development

Anonymous employee in Berlin

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: 2016 Date Submitted: Jan 20, 2017

Application

1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test

Interview

Very fast process, in total it took around 3 weeks until I had my offer. First, you get invited to answer some HR related motivational questions, then there is a VP of the Business Dev. division asking you some Brainteasers and why you want to join.

Interview Questions

Brainteaser:
This is a very common Brainteaser you may get in interviews, in my interview it was the hardest part however. Imagine you are in the desert and you are entirely out of water. Surprisingly, there is one oasis where you can refill your containments and bottles. Unfortunately, the oasis is guarded by some men who have to protect the raw water in that region. That is what they say: You are only allowed to take exactly 4 litres of waters with you and you have those 2 buckets: a 3 liter bucket and a 5 liter bucket. How do you get exactly 4 liters of water?
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Quantitative Research Intern Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous interview candidate in

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: November 2016 Date Submitted: Dec 04, 2016

Application

1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test

Interview

It's a small commodity asset management firm, so communication was very swift and efficient. Received a reply just hours after I submitted my resume.

Interview Questions

They asked very detailed, mostly from a technical perspective, questions based on my resume, e.g. Tell me about yourself. What data structure you used to store weekly stock prices in the project you described? Do you know xts? What is it used for? Describe your machine learning project? Describe your past internship experience? What did you learn from it? Are you following news on the commodity markets? Are you aware of any major events that are happening right now on the markets? How is your option theory knowledge?
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Operations analyst Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Berlin

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: 2015 Date Submitted: Nov 30, 2016

Application

Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Drug Test
Background Check

Interview

The interview process was very straight forward. First I applied through career services at my university then I was contacted to come to super day

Interview Questions

The most difficult interview question that was asked to me was "describe your proudest accomplishment" This question threw me off guard because I had never been asked this before. I think he wanted to hear the steps I took to reach this accomplishment.
Another difficult interview question that was asked to me was " to describe what I think that an analyst in program has to do on a daily basis x
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