Arena Investors LP Interview Questions

6 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (67%)

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3.3
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Interview Difficulty (53%)

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2.2
  • Very Easy
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% Interns - FT Offers (22%)

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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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Interviews at Arena Investors LP

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Job Title
Group/Division
Location
Experience
Difficulty
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2023
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Leveraged Finance
Location
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Associate
Year 2022
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division Natural Resources
Location New York
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Easy
1st Year Associate
Year 2021
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division Credit
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Easy
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2021
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Risk
Location New York
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Very Easy
Intern
Year 2021
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Credit
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Summer Associate Intern
Year 2020
Job Title Summer Associate Intern
Group/Division Distressed Debt and-or High Yield
Location New York
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Easy

Interview Questions & Answers - Arena Investors LP Examples

Asset Management Intern Interview - Leveraged Finance

Anonymous interview candidate in
Interviewed: October 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
In-person
Length of Process
3-4 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Personality Test
Interview
3 online Zoom interview with the team, one technical round regarding LBO analysis, and one face to face interview with the MD.
Interview Questions
Why are you interested in active investing and do you think it is better than passive?

Associate Interview - Natural Resources

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: October 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
1st Round: short 1 on 1 zoom interview with the PM, discussed my background and a bit about the role. At the end of the call scheduled an in person interview for 3 days later
2nd Round: Hour long in person interview. Spoke more in depth about my experience and the role. This was the final round.
Interview Questions
Seemed more interested in who I knew than my technical skills. Wanted me to bring in a lot of deal flow.

Associate Interview - Credit

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: December 2021
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Very easy. Spoke on the phone and then had two zoom interviews before the offer. More of personality fit than hard questioning. Asked some about experience and different scenarios.
Interview Questions
How did you handle a difficult sitaution

Sophomore Internship Interview - Risk

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: December 2021
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
The interview process was chill, they only asked me behaviorals and why credit hedge funds. Had my story ready. It was a great process as there were no technicals nor anything out of the blue. I mailed the HR with my resume before applications were out and applied on Handshake when they were out.
Interview Questions
Why Credit Hedge Funds? This I had to prepare well for and give a quality answer and I couldn't fake it.

Summer Analyst Interview - Credit

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: November 2021
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Generally will be 1-2 rounds and will be chill. Interviews were standard; mainly composed of market questions (eg. what is a recent trend you're following) and qualitative business questions (eg. what makes a good business?)
Interview Questions
They dig into your resume a lot more than I was expecting (ie. what did you ACTUALLY do in the position beyond what you listed on the resume?)

Summer Analyst Interview - Distressed Debt and-or High Yield

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: February 2020
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
In-person
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Met the company at a job fair at my university, they liked my CV.
Sent an email to the Associate I met (no answer) and then I sent my official application to their HR.
They contacted me shortly after, and scheduled a phone interview. For 2 days after
Phone interview, first contact, 1 vs. 3 (HR, Associate, Director of the fund). The fund is $1.2 billion. Specialty distressed debt, from New York.
I am interviewed about their energy practice. Duration 30min.
Questions:

Elevator pitch
Why energy
Do you like the city in which you live ? (houston)
Why oil and gas
Don't you think renewables will take over (because I said that I worked a lot on PV)
Do you have questions for us ?
Interview Questions
1- How do you enjoy Houston ? (it's an easy question, but it destabilized me at the moment, as it was out of context)
2- What do you think of Renewables vs. Oil and gas (questions that catered to my knowledge of both markets)
3- What are the O&G production metrics of your country (daily production, size of the companies active, companies active there...)
4- What were your missions in your previous jobs, who were your clients, how much money did you make out of them?
5- Do you have other questions to ask ? (after only 15 minutes of the interview)
$5m+
Est Annual Revenue
$500m-$999m
AUM
Industry

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