Business Valuation Analyst

Status
1st Year Analyst at
Group/Division/Type
Valuation
City
San Jose
Interviewed
October 2021
Overall experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Average

General Interview Information

Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months

Interview Details

What did the interview consist of?
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Personality Test
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
The process starts through HireVue. If i recall it was proprietary, so not actually hirevue, but timed questions completely on your own. You will do this twice. After the second round I was told I would be joining a zoom call for superday in about a week. The zoom call included ~25 recruiters and literally 100+ candidates. I checked every recruiter on LinkedIn and I'm fairly certain this was a VME hiring spree for every VME department looking to hire west of texas.

My first interview was technical and predictable.
1. What are three valuation methodologies?
2. How would you value a pre-revenue company?
3. Walk me through a DCF
4. How do you calculate WACC?
5. How do you get terminal value in gordon growth

There were 3 more consecutive interviews after that totaling 4 interviews across ~3.5 hours.

The following 3 interviews were non-technical. Very typical, situational interview, fit, etc. Everyone was super nice, I found that talking passionately about why I was interested in valuation (long speech that was both true and imo fairly compelling) managed to pull us off the pre-planned interview questions for just about every interview in the process, which I think is ideal.
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