New Mountain Capital Interview Questions
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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.
- Very Easy
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- Difficult
- Very Difficult
Interview Questions & Answers - New Mountain Capital Examples
Associate Interview - Private Equity
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
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