Ferghana Partners Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (70%)

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.

4
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  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (56%)

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.

2.7
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult
% Interns - FT Offers (48%)

The % of Interns Getting a Full Time Offer chart is meant to provide a realistic estimate of the hiring practices of the company based on the reviews 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 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 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.

Interviews at Ferghana Partners

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Year 2016
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location New York
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Year 2016
Job Title
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location New York
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Year 2014
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location New York
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Interview Questions & Answers - Ferghana Partners Examples

Investment Banking Summer Analyst Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: April 2016
Date Submitted: Oct 11, 2017
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Other
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Cold Emailed an associate expressing my interest in the firm. Received a response a day later to set up an interview the next week. The interview was a phone call with the associate and lasted 45 minutes. Questions were mostly behavioural asking about my interest and background in finance and healthcare, but there were a couple of technical questions as well about pre-clinial company valuation. After the interview I was emailed a couple of days later by the associate for a final round phone call with the MD. The phone call with the MD was purely behavioral and ended with an offer at the end of the call.
Interview Questions
How would you value a pre-clinical stage or early stage biotech company?

I answered by saying you should use a probablity-adjusted DCF and weight the free cash flows by the cumulative probability that the company's drug(s) will pass phase I, II, and III and go into commercial stage. He said that in most scenarios that's the correct methodology, but you can also build a bottoms-up model (determine market size and penetration for the company's drugs once it reaches commercial stage). He also mentioned that if the company is pre-clinical / early stage, in most scenarios you should not implement a terminal value because it assigns to much certainity that the business will reach a mature stage.
Sample Answer

Summer Analyst Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: March 2016
Date Submitted: Apr 22, 2016
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Cold e-mailed the firm inquiring about summer internships and attached my resume. Received an e-mail invitation to a first round interview weeks later. Had a 30 minute phone interview with an associate, which was mainly behavioral (standard behavioral questions), but the associate also inquired about my quantitative background. This was followed a week later by another phone interview with an MD. The interview was purely behavioral, and ended with an extension of an offer.
Interview Questions
Why are you interested in working in the life sciences? I answered this by describing the interest I've developed in the life sciences through reading popular science books describing new innovations in medical technology.
What is the most challenging quantitative class you've taken? I answered this question by describing a difficult economics class I am currently taking.
After describing the subject material of an economics class I've taken, I was asked: What is a Lagrange multiplier?
What is the most interesting class you have taken?
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Analyst Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: February 2014
Date Submitted: Mar 06, 2015
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Other
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Cold-emailed senior management and got a phone interview with a senior analyst a couple weeks later. The interview consisted of the usual tell me more about yourself, why investment banking, and other fit questions. There were a couple basic technical questions regarding valuation that you should have down cold. Other than that, the interview seemed more on fit, which is understandable for such a small firm.
Interview Questions
How would you value a company?
-Focused on DCFs mainly

Tell me more about your recent experience at ___
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