Other Interview Questions

47 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (94%)

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.

3.8
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (84%)

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.

2.7
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% Interns - FT Offers (42%)

The % of Interns Getting a Full Time Offer chart is meant to provide a realistic estimate of the hiring practices of the company based on the reviews 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 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 reviews). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to the simple company average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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Year 2020
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Private Equity
Location Chicago
Experience
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Average
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Year 2011
Job Title N/A
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location New York
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Year 2011
Job Title N/A
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location New york
Experience
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Year 2018
Job Title Assistant Vice President
Group/Division Generalist
Location Dallas
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Year 2017
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Wealth Management
Location McLean
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Location Atlanta
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Location New York
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Year 2017
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Technology
Location San Francisco
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Location Bangalore
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Year 2017
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Group/Division Fixed Income
Location New York
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Positive
Difficulty
Easy

Interview Questions & Answers - Other Examples

Graduate Program Interview -

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed:
Outcome
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Other
Interview
First step fully virtual video submission consisting of 7 questions about the firm, real estate and candidate background. First interview was 1 on 1 with Analyst, mostly behavioural and some technical questions relating to firm strategy. Next step was a test, creating a bespoke financial model for a logistics acquisition. Did not make it past that round of the hiring process.
Interview Questions

Research Analyst Interview - Asset Management

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: February 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Background Check
Other
Interview
$10bil AUM Hedge Fund Interview (1) Applied on LinkedIn, (2) Initial 30-minute screening. I was asked various questions about how I would value a company. I was asked questions about financial statements. Ex. what financial statement would you find share repurchases on. Asked salary expectations. Walk me through your resume. All of that stuff. I was then told I would have to do a research writeup on a firm for them to gauge my abilities. (3) After the interview, the senior analyst sent me one of the companies his firm had an investment in. He gave me 4 days to return a one page valuation and recommendation on the company w/ any supporting graphs/files attached. (4) The senior analyst and I discussed my recommendation about a week after I returned it. I had to be persistent with him getting to it. He did not really like my valuation. Piece of advice, when an asset manager owns something, they believe in it, so if you go against that, you better have support for your thesis. I did have support and I think he actually agreed with me after I explained what I meant by many of the points in my recommendation and valuation. Also, if they ask you do something like this, do a DCF and a relative valuation analysis. (5) I actually followed up with more information via email on my recommendation. I assume they liked it because they asked me to come visit their HQ. (6) Had lunch at a restaurant near the HQ. I was interview during the lunch. Make sure you are nice to the restaurant staff and everyone else of course. Also, I was questioned in their offices and met with multiple people. The questions were typical interview questions. What did you learn at your last role? Are you prepared to do such and such. Salary expectations. What other companies are you interviewing with? (7) Lastly, I met with the CEO in the HQ to do a final interview. Pretty typical questions, again. But, kind of grilled me. Wasn't all that pleasant. I think this is where I went wrong in that we just didn't seem to have rapport. I had rapport with everyone else in the firm who I spoke with. I guess the CEO didn't like me. I believe this is why I didn't get an offer, because everything else went perfectly, imo. The worst part was all the time I devoted to preparing for this and the research report I wrote on one of their companies.
Interview Questions
What is in your portfolio right now?, What large caps do you like? We typically focus on large caps here. , The toughest lesson you learned / biggest failure? Always hard because you don't want talk about your weaknesses imo. It is a myth that if you are open, they will be accepting. I don't believe that. If you tell an interviewer something you did that was stupid or idiotic, I don't think that is helping you. So, make it a mistake you made because of lack of experience for questions like this. , You can invest in one stock. Where do you put it all right now?

Investment Banking Analyst Interview - Energy

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: July 2022
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Background Check
Interview
I applied via a recruiter on LinkedIn and was put in contact with the senior team members. I had one interview with each of the senior members (4 in total) and also met junior members of the staff. In addition to the interviews, I took a modeling test and had a case study discussion based on a past deal.
Interview Questions
Most of the interview questions were pretty standard about my past work experience and background, why I was interested in moving jobs, etc. I did have to take a modeling test which was probably the most difficult part of the interview process.

Analyst - Corporate Development Interview - Corporate Development

Anonymous interview candidate in Toronto
Interviewed: November 2021
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
First, they asked for some quick excel questions online. Some familiarity with basic Excel functions should get you through it. After, it was a 1-1 video interview. It was mostly behavioural. I had some buy-side experience, so they asked how I thought about my investing process. You need to know your story and articulate your logical process of valuation work. I take the financials, normalize them, get down to cash flows, discount by this rate (why that rate? etc.)
Interview Questions
Nothing too difficult, they want to understand how you think.

Associate, Fixed Income AI Analytics Interview - Fixed Income

Anonymous employee in Toronto
Interviewed: October 2021
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Presentation
Skills Test
Background Check
Interview
The interview process at Overbond Ltd was smooth, yet difficult. Overbond is an AI quantitative analytics provider for institutional fixed income capital markets based out of three international offices and a client base of numerous global asset managers, hedge funds, investment managers, pensions, insurance companies, and many more.

I was initially contacted by a recruiter from the organization who was interested in arranging a phone interview to discuss in opening in the company. We arranged a date and time, and spoke via phone covering the role, responsibilities, information about the firm, and everything else you would need to know for the role. After a first-round phone interview I was asked to do a group interview via Zoom with numerous members of the firm, including the CEO and Head of Global Sales and Corporate Development, Fixed Income.

Post-interview I was asked to do another presentation for the Fixed Income team, covering the Overbond COBI Bond Pricing AI which algorithmically predicts the most optimal indicative new issue bond price as well as relative value secondary market best-execution bond price for global IG and HY issuers, utilizing machine- learning (ML) algorithms. The ML algorithms analyze millions of data points related to factors such as secondary levels, recent indicative new issue price quotations, company fundamental data elements, investor sentiment and sector comparables. The presentation was a mock-pitch to the Head of Global Fixed Income at a multi-billion dollar Investment Management firm describing the use-case scenarios of Fixed Income artificial intelligence quantitative analytic programs at the trading desk.

Advice? Come prepared, in order to successfully interview at this firm you must come equipped with a very high-level knowledge base surrounding: fixed income, machine learning, artificial intelligence, high yield bonds, curve structure, execution management systems, portfolio management systems, ETF basket pricing, issuance propensity and new issuance modelling, liquidity scoring, margin optimization, screening for mispriced fixed income securities (Overbond’s quantitative method for rich-cheap analysis combines both static and dynamic analysis of multiple factors with AI. It’s a mean-reversion valuation model designed to pre-identify bonds as rich ‘sell’ and cheap ‘buy’ candidates based on proprietary Overbond valuation metrics and AI non- linear optimization), along with pre-trade and post-trade TCA.

A successful candidate would have working knowledge of both sell-side and buy-side fixed income trading, as well as knowledge of electronic trading within fixed income across all G10 currencies.
Interview Questions
1. In your own opinion, how do you think automation at the trade desk for automated trade workflows might benefit a trader in terms of RFQ repsonses?

Intern Interview - Generalist

Anonymous employee in Washington DC
Interviewed: April 2021
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Group Interview
Interview
The hiring process was relatively simple, a decent sized application that was essentially an extra long cover letter, and then the interview. It was with 3-4 people, one HR and then 2 or 3 investors. They asked about why I wanted to work there, past experiences, skills I could bring, etc.
Interview Questions
Nothing really unexpected, Why us?, Strengths and Weaknesses, Past Investment Experience, Walk me through a DCF

Barista Interview

Anonymous employee in Los Angeles
Interviewed: December 2018
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
It was very quick, as soon as I submitted my application I was called in for an interview after 2-3 days. I was asked very simple behavioral questions.
Interview Questions
Provide me an example of teamwork experience

DVx Ventures - Associate Position Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in San Francisco
Interviewed: May 2021
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Group Interview
Interview
Applied on Linkedin. There were about 250 applicants. There was an initial group interview to tell everyone about the position. After you had to submit a background memo as part of a blind application process. From there you had to do an interview with the current associates.
Interview Questions
You had to write a background diligence memo on a what if scenario. For example, my question asked was what if there was a nail polish brand inspired by iconic cars throughout history.

Intern Analyst Interview - Generalist

Anonymous employee in Denver
Interviewed: April 2021
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Other
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Group Interview
Interview
I reached out to an associate who set me up with an interview in about two weeks. The interview was a 2 on 1 zoom with a few get to know you questions followed by around 7-8 technicals mostly related to debt and valuation (some were slightly tricky). I received an offer back about 2 weeks later. It was an enjoyable process that was straightforward and not meant to trick you.
Interview Questions
Walk through interest rate of mezzanine debt compared to other types of debt., How do you calculate exit multiples?

Search Fund Summer Analyst Interview - Private Equity

Anonymous employee in Chicago
Interviewed: April 2020
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Preliminary stage was to reach out to the fund manager via email. Next was a phone call with the manager. Finally round was a 1 on 1 interview with the manager.
Interview Questions
All Behavioral questions.
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