J.H. Whitney & Co. Interview Questions

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Interview Difficulty (29%)

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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.

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Interviews at J.H. Whitney & Co.

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Year 2016
Job Title Intern
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Location London
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Interview Questions & Answers - J.H. Whitney & Co. Examples

Internship Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed: February 2016
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Presentation
Skills Test
Interview
Consists of 8 questions. Last one to add further comment. The rests were just competencies and bit of technical
Interview Questions
Walk me through the major line items of a Cash Flow Statement, Which is higher – the cost of equity or the cost of debt, and why?



Why should a company prefer equity finance to debt finance?


Tell me about a technology company. Now tell me who they should acquire and why.

Walk me through the four valuation methods. Now ranking them in order of your preference. Explain why you’ve done this.

How do you use a leveraged buyout (LBO) to value a company?

How do you boost returns in an LBO?

The key levers are: a lower purchase price, a higher exit price (when the company is sold on),