Permira Advisers Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (85%)

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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 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.

4.3
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Interview Difficulty (92%)

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.

3.7
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Interviews at Permira Advisers

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Intern
Year 2020
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT)
Location Menlo Park
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2010
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Private Equity
Location Paris
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
2nd Year Associate
Year 2011
Job Title 2nd Year Associate
Group/Division Generalist
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - Permira Advisers Examples

Private Equity Analyst Interview - Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT)

Anonymous interview candidate in Menlo Park
Interviewed: February 2020
Date Submitted: Apr 08, 2020
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Presentation
Skills Test
Interview
First round phone screen on Monday, followed by superday in the office at the end of the week. Got the opportunity through on-campus recruiting at college specific investment fund.

Interview Questions
Questions are as follows:
* - Tell me about yourself
* - Why Tech?
* - Why PE?
* - Why [Firm]?
* - What's 432 X 65
* - What's 32 / 19 to two digits
* - What financial levers/metrics would you look at to invest in for SaaS companies?
* - What KPIs are more important?
* - Specific unit economics for software?
* - Let's say Company A has 100 clients total. Churn is 20%. What's the difference between the churn if it does 5-year contracts vs. 1-year contracts. You need to ask for assumptions (revenue vs. customer churn, straight line vs. variable, etc.)
* What's a tech trend you have observed recently? I said autonomous trucking
* Trend related questions:
* Have you followed our [X] investment? What do you know about it?
* How do you see the investment opportunity for autonomous trucks vs cars?
* How would you think about the last mile problem? Think about navigating a city or town in a truck, what are the obstacles?
* From a pessimistic POV, you have hardware which has its cycle, and software, you have the actual trucking company but at some point everyone’s going to adopt it at some point if it’s beneficial for their ROI, are there any companies in the space that have a differentiated approach, do you think that this is at most a one time switch to benefit efficiencies or actually a good investment opportunity?
* What is the investment play here?
* What are some demonstrated long term value creation that is happening in the space?
* Talk to me about some specific companies in this space
* Questions for me?
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intern Interview - Private Equity

Anonymous employee in Paris
Interviewed: 2010
Date Submitted: Apr 21, 2014
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
One first interview with an associate; second round with principal and partner.
All interviews technical, about M&A, LBO, previous internship and responsibilities held, knowledge of a sector, methodology for investment analysis...
Interview Questions
Can you drive me through a P&L of a retail store? of a retail group? what would be the important KPIs to look at?
Can you drive me through this operating model you built? What were the key drivers for revenues ? Costs ? What were the valuation assumtions? What was the final outcome of this project?
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Investment Professional Interview - Generalist

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: 2011
Date Submitted: Feb 06, 2014
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Skills Test
Interview
The interview process was a typical interview process for a Private Equity position. I interviewed with the New York office and there are ~10 investment professionals at the firm. The first 2 interviews were relatively standard with a mix of behavioral and technical questions expected in a PE interview. If you move past the 1st round, you will start to meet with some of the Principals and Partners. The group has a very diverse set of backgrounds so you need to make sure you can relate with everybody (i.e. it's a "global" firm for a reason). Culture is really important to the firm. Before meeting with the last few partners, I was brought in for several in-house case studies where you are asked about a potential investment and your thoughts / rationale about the investment. (i.e. What would you ask the CEO? What are the biggest risks? How would you grow the business?, etc.). The final interview was with the Co-Managing Partner of the firm which was more confirmatory than anything else.
Interview Questions
Tell me about a recent global event you read about. They want to be sure that you're interested in global events and that you read the news. A lot of the value creation the firm brings is being able to create global companies out of local leaders. Also, Permira has 10 different offices around the world and you work on multi-continent deal teams, so being culturally-aware is really important.
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