NewStar Financial Interview Questions

2 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (18%)

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.

3
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (78%)

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.

3.5
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

Interviews at NewStar Financial

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Year 2014
Job Title Vice President
Group/Division Leveraged Finance
Location Boston
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Year 2017
Job Title
Group/Division Asset Management
Location Boston
Experience
Negative
Difficulty
Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - NewStar Financial Examples

Analyst Interview - Leveraged Finance

Anonymous employee in Boston
Interviewed: June 2014
Date Submitted: Jul 24, 2021
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
One on one on campus followed by super day at office with model test. Met with seven people at super day
Interview Questions
Accounting questions and questions specific to direct lending were difficult if not prepared
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Treasury Analyst Interview - Asset Management

Anonymous interview candidate in Boston
Interviewed: January 2017
Date Submitted: Jun 27, 2017
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
2-3 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Presentation
Interview
I contacted a friend who worked at NewStar when I saw the job posted on our college career platform. He reached out to the HR team, who then reached out to me. I completed two rounds of phone interviews, in person interviews with 1:1s with the entire team of 5 people, and a case study presentation and defense with data analysis.
Interview Questions
I was asked to defend the reasoning behind my choices of what data I chose to include in my analysis and what I chose to exclude. The case data itself was kind of thrown together at the last minute and a lot of it was illogical (which the team admitted to later on in the interview process) which made the analysis particularly difficult. The case required a deep understanding of collateralized loan obligations. The team seemed almost inconvenienced to be interviewing me, which was slightly discouraging.
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