Lone Star Funds Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (45%)

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Interview Difficulty (83%)

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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 Lone Star Funds

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Year 2017
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Private Equity
Location Dallas
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Interview Questions & Answers - Lone Star Funds Examples

Summer Analyst Interview - Private Equity

Anonymous interview candidate in Dallas
Interviewed: September 2017
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Interview
Included a first round phone screen with HR then a second round 2 on 1 interview with Associates in the PE group
Interview Questions
Walk me through an LBO. Why might a PE firm choose to use bank debt over a bond? Walk me through how the 3 financial statements connect. Why Hudson Advisors? Why’d you choose your college?

Most of the questions asked during the second round were highly technical and includes several follow ups for most answers I gave on a technical question. They dove deep into LBO variables and how various scenarios would impact the output values in an LBO model. Additional technicals included walking them through a debt schedule
$1bn+
Est Annual Revenue
$25bn-$50bn
AUM
Industry

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