DC Energy Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (86%)

The Interview Experience is a score from 1 star (very negative) to 5 stars (very positive) generated based on the Interview Insights at this company.

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 donut, 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 reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire dataset.

3.9
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (99%)

The Interview Difficulty is a score ranging from very difficult (red) to very easy (green) generated based on the Interview Insights at this company.

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.

3.6
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

Interviews at DC Energy

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Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2017
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Vienna
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2019
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Energy
Location Vienna
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Intern
Year 2019
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Equity Capital Markets
Location New York
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Analyst
Year 2018
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Generalist
Location Clayton
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Easy
1st Year Analyst
Year 2017
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Hedge Fund
Location Washington
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
1st Year Analyst
Year 2013
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Energy
Location Washington
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
1st Year Associate
Year 2008
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division Generalist
Location Vienna
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Analyst
Year 2012
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division
Location Vienna
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Very Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - DC Energy Examples

Analyst Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Vienna
Interviewed: October 2017
Date Submitted: Jan 09, 2020
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
I applied for the Analyst role through my school's job board and heard back from them after a few weeks. The hiring process for non-target schools was your standard phone interview with a math skills test and, if you passed, a super day on-site. The super day was a pretty rigorous process. You go through a number of interviews (coding, case, math) and get to learn more about the firm/meet people. They treated interviewees very nicely but you could tell they did value school prestige a lot in their hires.
Interview Questions
One of the case interviews was a statistical football one (it helped to understand how football worked) where I had to decide if I was going to go for a TD to win the game or punt it. I was given a probability of scoring for different scenarios and was expected to calculate my team's likelihood of winning.

Another notable case interview was one about the electricity market itself. I was given 3-4 power plants who would generate X amount of energy at Y price and was supposed to calculate the total cost, what would happen if a new power plant were to be introduced, etc.
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investment analyst Interview - Energy

Anonymous interview candidate in Vienna
Interviewed: October 2019
Date Submitted: Jan 02, 2020
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Interview
I applied online, then technical interview on campus, then interview at their office in Northern Virginia.
Interview Questions
There was a pseudocode case interview. This was completely unexpected because I had never done any coding at all. I had never studied anything related to computer science. They want to make sure that you will be able to learn how to code. I did not see this coming at all. They also asked basic business case interview questions. They just want to see how you think, and they want to know if you would be a good fit with their other employees and their culture. The interviews were expected for the most part.
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Equity Research analyst Interview - Equity Capital Markets

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: October 2019
Date Submitted: Dec 16, 2019
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Presentation
Skills Test
Interview
No unexpected questions at all. Everything that was asked was very relevant to the position that I interviewed for.
Interview Questions
All of the questions that were asked were exactly what I had previously expected.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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Investment Analyst Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in Clayton
Interviewed: October 2018
Date Submitted: Oct 23, 2018
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Applied through university career portal. Received an email a month later to schedule a first round interview. The interview consisted of 15 min of behavioral questions 15 minutes of a case/brain teaser. and 5 minutes of questions.
Interview Questions
The case question was the following: There exists a 100 story building. A new phone company releases a new phone that they say is hard to break. You are tasked with testing how high one can drop the phone without breaking it. You get two phones to drop from the building floors, and you can keep dropping a phone until one breaks. Create a strategy to minimize the amount of trials needed to figure out how high of a drop the phone can withstand. This question took about 15 minutes and the interviewer was helpful
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Analyst Interview - Hedge Fund

Anonymous interview candidate in Washington
Interviewed: September 2017
Date Submitted: Oct 19, 2018
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
Walked into the campus interview meeting room. A guy in a maroon blazer and khakis with a huge gold watch was staring at me dead-pan. He asked me one brain teaser that I struggled with for 30 minutes and then told me my time was up and said good-bye. I never heard back.
Interview Questions
A brainteaser about hats:

Assume a room full of 10 people are all wearing either black or red hats. The hats are selected randomly and in order to get out of the room at lease one person has to guess the color of their hat right. The participants cannot inform each other of what color hats they are wearing. How do you maximize the probablity that at least one person guesses their hat color correctly?

Answer: Two people stare at each other and one person guesses the opposite color of the hat the other person is wearing, and the other person guesses the same colorof the hat the person is wearing.
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Analyst Interview - Energy

Anonymous interview candidate in Washington
Interviewed: February 2013
Date Submitted: Aug 07, 2014
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Skills Test
Interview
On-campus interviewing followed by two on-site interviews and then an office visit with group interviews/activities and a fit interview one-on-one. Everyone at the office was very nice throughout the process. The group activity was a coding-like computer game that was completed in teams to assess teamwork and interpersonal skills. The company also gave away promotional materials at the end of the office visit.
Interview Questions
Lots of math cases focusing on probability and required mental math to solve. The typical interview question featured a real-life situation but with made-up numbers that the applicant had to solve.
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Associate Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in Vienna
Interviewed: 2008
Date Submitted: Feb 12, 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Met recruiter at on-campus event. Was given 1-on-1 at follow up interview day
Interview Questions
Major focus of interview was a consulting type case study. While I wasn't blindsided by the question given the firm's history, I was surprised they would bother with it given what they explained the current focus of the company is.

The particular case study was straightforward. It boiled down to solving a system of equations. So quantitatively simple, but they were focused on the presentation, framework, etc., all the stuff I had no interest in practicing/perfecting. I was not interested in consulting so it was no surprise I did not impress (I didn't do abysmally, but nowhere near as good as a practiced interviewee would). My interviewer called me back with negative news a week later, specifically mentioning he thought my presentation of the study was too disorganized.

Overall the few people I met from the firm were polite and forthcoming, and I thought it was respectful to get a personal phone call and feedback from my interviewer.
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Analyst Interview -

Anonymous employee in Vienna
Interviewed: 2012
Date Submitted: Nov 11, 2012
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Skills Test
Interview
Landed first round interview through OCR, involving a very difficult brain teaser. Not expected to finish it in the time allowed, but they want to see how you think. Next round of interviews were similar brain teasers. Not much fit assessed until office visit, which involves a group activity, informal chats, and a few presentations on their part.
Interview Questions
f(n) is a function counting all the ones that show up in 1, 2, 3, ..., n. so f(1)=1, f(10)=2, f(11)=4 etc. When is the first time f(n)=n
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