New Mountain Capital Interview Questions

3 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (72%)

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
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (74%)

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.

3
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

Interviews at New Mountain Capital

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Job Title
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Experience
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1st Year Associate
Year 2017
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division Generalist
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Associate
Year 2018
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division Private Equity
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Associate
Year 2015
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division Generalist
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average

Interview Questions & Answers - New Mountain Capital Examples

Associate Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: January 2017
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Presentation
Interview
I interviewed with New Mountain for an associate role during the on-cycle recruiting process. I was connected through a recruiter. I had multiple in-person interviews in New York at the office with several associates and then more senior people in the organization. The interviews had standard "walk me through your background and why PE questions" as well as specific questions about what type of firm I wanted. There was a case-study portion where I was given a PIB and a laptop to model out a LBO and present a thesis on the company.
Interview Questions
The case study requirement with the PIB was difficult because of the sheer volume of information I had available. It was difficult to determine where to focus or how to present my work. There was some guidance on how much detail to provide in the modeling portion, and I built out a very basic operating case. After I built my model I presented the work to a VP who asked a lot of questions about what I liked and didn't like about the company as well as how I got to certain model assumptions. As I interviewed with more senior people the interviews were more personal, and the questions less technical.

Associate Interview - Private Equity

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: September 2018
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
The interview process started with a meeting with a headhunter. This was followed by a coffee chat, after which I was asked to come into the office to interview. There were 3 rounds of interviews: 1 fit, 1 case study, and 1 quantitative assessment.
Interview Questions
If you could invest in any one industry, which would you invest in & why?
I said that I would invest in the growing Data industry as a number of deals I had worked on were related to this. I was taken a little off guard by this question since the firm had a pretty general investment mandate, and did not have a prepared answer. While I was able to tie it back to industry tailwinds and mention companies / investment ideas I thought were interesting, I think my initial pause may have hurt my answer overall, I was give a pretty standard case study - had been prepped before but was more difficult than anticipated. They give you a ~500 page PIB for a public company (including public filings, equity research, comps sets, numerous investor presentations, etc) and ask you if you would or would not invest, and, if so, why or why not. While I felt prepared (had done a number of similar exercises prior to this), sorting through the pure breadth of data proved difficult and thus I was pressed for time

Associate Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: February 2015
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Staffing Agency
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
I was contacted by a headhunter for an interview with the Firm. I arrived at the office and had three interviews: 1 general fit interview with a more senior person at the firm, 1 case interview where you are given a CIM and asked to develop an investment thesis, and 1 case interview where you compare the financials of two hypothetical companies.
Interview Questions
Generate an investment thesis for this sample company. You have CIM, analyst reports, financials, news articles and ~20-30min to come up with a thesis and share whether you would recommend investing in the company