Corporate Finance Associates Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (39%)

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Interview Difficulty (18%)

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% Interns - FT Offers (59%)

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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 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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Year 2009
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Analyst Interview - Generalist

Anonymous employee in Seattle
Interviewed: September 2009
Date Submitted: Apr 04, 2014
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Other
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Group Interview
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Interview
My original interview for working with Corporate Finance took place down in Los Angeles at the corporate office. They were looking to open an office to cover the Northwest at the time. My MD from my prior firm and I were both tapped to start the office here in the Northwest so they interviewed as a package. We met with the Chairmen and member of the compliance team and they mostly focused on prior deal experience as well as our vision for what we could accomplish in the Northwest
Interview Questions
Please walk us through in detail what a typical sell side process looked at your prior firm?

How would being a part of CFA help to improve this process?

Talk to us about some of the transaction you have been a part of, what was your role, what were issues that came up during the process.

What is a deal you worked on that fell apart, what happened? What could have been done differently to keep all parties at the table?
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