Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company Interview Questions (2024) - 3 Entries

Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company Interview Questions

3 total interview insight submissions

Interview Experience (65%)

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Interview Difficulty (57%)

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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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% Interns - FT Offers (52%)

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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Interviews at Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company

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Year

Job Title

Group/Division

Location

Experience

Difficulty

Investment Analyst

Year 2015

Job Title Investment Analyst

Group/Division Generalist

Location Irvine, CA, USA

Experience

Neutral

Difficulty

Easy

Year 2013

Job Title

Group/Division Investment Management

Location Los Angeles

Experience

Positive

Difficulty

Easy

Intern

Year 2016

Job Title Intern

Group/Division Risk

Location Los Angeles

Experience

Positive

Difficulty

Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company Examples

Investment Operations Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in Irvine, CA, USA

Interviewed: February 2015

Date Submitted: Jul 17, 2018

Outcome

Declined Offer

Interview Source

Employee Referral

Length of Process

1-2 months

Application

Phone Interview

Group Interview

Interview

First, a behavioral interview with the HR team.

Second, an in-person interview with the whole team.

Nothing challenging. Just be yourself and read on the company.

Interview Questions

What are pre-requisites of revenue recognition?
How important is documentation when it comes to accounting?
What are Accounting Standards?
What is a FIXED ASSET register?
Which accounting software / ERP, according to you, should be used for maintaining the Accounts of an MNC?
What is the significance of reconciliation in accounting?
Explain the procurement process in brief?
What according to you is the importance of budget in any organization?
What are expense provisions? Is it important to book these provisions?

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Analyst Interview - Investment Management

Anonymous employee in Los Angeles

Interviewed: 2013

Date Submitted: Jan 04, 2017

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Other

Length of Process

1-2 months

Application

Phone Interview

1 on 1 Interview

IQ / Intelligence Test

Interview

HR called me to do a brief behavioral screen. She followed up the next day to schedule a call with the hiring manager. That call was part behavioral and part cognitive. I was asked a series of brainteasers and technical questions revolving around securities. Finally, I was invited to the office for a superday which consisted of 4 back to back 30 minute interviews. Some were all behavioral while others were more technical in nature.

Interview Questions

There is a game show with 3 doors behind it. Two with a donkey behind and one with the grand prize. The host then reveals one door with a donkey. You are then given then option to switch the door that you originally selected or hold on to it. What do you do and explain why you chose to do so.

This is the classic monte hall problem. The host knows where the prize is so will never reveal the prize immediately. That means that the odds of you having the prize if you switch, jump from 33% to 50% with this new information.

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Risk Analyst Interview - Risk

Anonymous interview candidate in Los Angeles

Interviewed: January 2016

Date Submitted: Feb 20, 2016

Outcome

Declined Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

Phone Interview

1 on 1 Interview

Skills Test

IQ / Intelligence Test

Background Check

Interview

Got a call from HR asking some general questions about my background and interest in the role. Then I had another call with a member of the Risk Team asking me about my background with various programming languages and projects. They also explained what the role would be like. Then I had a super day with 6 interviews. First with HR. It was half a rundown of how the day will go and personality type interview. Second was with the head of the group I applied to. Third was with a senior programmer. These three were all general with few technical questions. They asked for some details about my projects, so I explained them. Then I had lunch with the team. The analysts asked me a brain teaser at lunch. Fourth, fifth, and sixth were with different analysts. These questions were largely technical relating to probability and general problem solving. Then I had a programming test in Excel and Python. The Excel test was basically a VLOOKUP problem, some basic formulas, and to see if I knew the fundamentals of references. The Python once was a bit more technical.

Interview Questions

How much do you know about basketball? How would you evaluate an NBA player? How would you measure offensive output? How do you measure defensive skill? What metrics would you use in your defensive rankings? How would you build an algorithm using these metrics to rank NBA defenders? Given your algorithm, who do you think would rank highest in the current NBA? Does or does that not match current anecdotal rankings around the league? Why or why not? What types of defenders are in your algorithm's blind spot?

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