Grove Street Advisors Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (45%)

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3.5
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (51%)

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.

2.5
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

Interviews at Grove Street Advisors

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1st Year Associate
Year 2012
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division Investments
Location Wellesley
Experience
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1st Year Associate
Year 2012
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division
Location Wellesley
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Easy

Interview Questions & Answers - Grove Street Advisors Examples

Associate Interview - Investments

Anonymous interview candidate in Wellesley
Interviewed: December 2012
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
There was a recruiter screening your expectation of salaries, as well as getting to know your career goals (plans for business schools etc.). Then there were 1 on 1 interviews participated by a few senior people on the same day.
Interview Questions
How would you approach a new investment; what kind of original ideas you have? what do you see that other people don't see?
do you have financial modeling experience at your prior job? Are you familiar with all the shortcuts on Excels?

Associate Interview -

Anonymous interview candidate in Wellesley
Interviewed: 2012
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Recruiter submitted my resume to firm.

Assistant at firm reached out to me the next day to schedule an interview the same week. Held a 30 minute call with an associate, which covered my background and interest in the firm.

The firm followed up early the next week to schedule another phone interview later in the same week. This interview again went over my background before discussing specifics about the firm and position. The next phase of the interview focused on why I was interested in a fund of funds.

The firm reached out to me a day or two after the second phone interview to say they were pursuing other candidates.

Best advice: be very clear that private equity fund of fund investment is what you want to do both today and in the long-run. They were turned off by my interest in other related fields (direct private equity and co-investing).
Interview Questions
The interviewer asked where I wanted to be in my career and how Grove Street could help me achieve that goal.

I answered that I wanted to be managing money as a portfolio manager in some capacity. I admitted that while PE fund-of-fund investing is interesting, that I could see myself in other related asset classes, particularly as a co-investment fund manager or a direct private equity investor.
$100m+
Est Annual Revenue
$3bn-$5bn
AUM
Industry

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