Echo Street Capital Interview Questions (2024) - 1 Entries

Echo Street Capital Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (7%)

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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 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.

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Interviews at Echo Street Capital

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Year

Job Title

Group/Division

Location

Experience

Difficulty

1st Year Analyst

Year 2017

Job Title 1st Year Analyst

Group/Division Generalist

Location New York

Experience

Neutral

Difficulty

Easy

Interview Questions & Answers - Echo Street Capital Examples

Data Analyst Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in New York

Interviewed: June 2017

Date Submitted: Jul 11, 2017

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

Phone Interview

Interview

Interview with Director of Technology (also a quant). I was surprised to hear that I was the only person to submit a cover letter. He asked about how recently I had used various technologies like SQL or Access or Python. I think in didn't think my Python experience was recent enough (last used 6 months from the interview). He also wanted to know why I was interested in working at a hedge fund. That question isn't unexpected, but because the fund was so small I think my answer to the question revealed some kind of cultural unfitness. The risk you run when you're interviewing at hedge funds that aren't Mega Funds Is that the team is so lean that you really need to be an excellent cultural fit so it's easy on get dinged.

Interview Questions

I was surprised to hear that I was the only person to submit a cover letter. He asked about how recently I had used various technologies like SQL or Access or Python. I think in didn't think my Python experience was recent enough (last used 6 months from the interview). He also wanted to know why I was interested in working at a hedge fund. That question isn't unexpected, but because the fund was so small I think my answer to the question revealed some kind of cultural unfitness. The risk you run when you're interviewing at hedge funds that aren't Mega Funds Is that the team is so lean that you really need to be an excellent cultural fit so it's easy on get dinged.

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