Century Capital Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (52%)

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Interview Difficulty (34%)

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The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. The higher the number, the more difficult the interviews on average. 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 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.

3
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  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

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Interview Questions & Answers - Century Capital Examples

Internship (Private Equity Group) Interview -

Anonymous employee in Boston
Interviewed: November 2011
Date Submitted: Sep 03, 2012
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Background Check
Interview
An Associate at Century sent an Email to a former employee who forwarded it to me. I was able to get a phone interview, and after passing that, was invited into the office for a series of 4 interviews (one accounting technical, one finance technical, two behavioral).
Interview Questions
For a Private Equity position, I found it interesting that part of the technical interview process involved pitching a publicly traded company.
Other questions were pretty standard-
-Track a $10m depreciation expense across the financial statements
-Name the different ways to value a company
-Walk through a DCF analysis
-Explain how P/E funding adds value to a portfolio company
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