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Interview Experience (3%)

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Interview Difficulty (67%)

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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 (48%)

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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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1st Year Analyst
Year 2018
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Mergers and Acquisitions
Location London
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analyst Interview - Mergers and Acquisitions

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed: April 2018
Date Submitted: May 10, 2018
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Staffing Agency
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Interview with director and associate and then two analysts after. Both parties asked technicals and competencies questions. Also the director threw out some random brainteasers.
Interview Questions
How many people use the tube to London Every week, - Micro to Macro and looking into sectors. Was a very difficult question. Think about how many people per family come into London, schools and think about the figures change for weekdays and weekends.



Valuing a real estate property using two others one smaller and one bigger. The only information given was the price and square footage of the two property and the square footage of the third property. Use the ratio to find out a value per square feet and then and then multiply by the square fit.

Other questions were 3 FS and competencies.
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