Private Equity Summer Analyst

Interview process was highly technical throughout. Consisted of a first-round interview on campus, then later that night everyone selected for the second round of interviews was taken to dinner. Finally there was a fairly short (1 hr) final round interview at the Ares office in NYC.

First interview was very much down to business, jumped right into technical questions (two case studies). Required you to ask questions to get more relevant information, and ultimately make a decision about what credit to buy in the capital structure. Another case study was more qualitative, and involved detailing the thought process that a West-Coast based retailer should go through in deciding to expand to the East Coast.

Second round interview was surprisingly short (only one hour). Consisted of two interviews, one of quantitative technicals and the other more qualitative. The second, more qualitative interview was again a kind of discussion that was a test of your general business acumen; we talked about how you would go about researching a potential investment in a manufacturer of synthetic deck materials.