Summer Acquisitions Associate

Status
Intern at
Group/Division/Type
Mergers and Acquisitions
City
La Jolla
Interviewed
March 2013
Overall experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult

General Interview Information

Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month

Interview Details

What did the interview consist of?
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
Originally applied through schools career board. Was initially contacted by a current intern to arrange a phone interview with the VP of Acquisitions. During the phone interview, was asked basic technical questions, such as "walk me through the affects of overstating depreciation expense on the three financial statements and how to reverse these errors" and "while performing a DCF analysis on two exactly same firms, what could cause a difference in valuation amounts?. Phone interview last 30 minutes. Was e-mailed by current intern to come in for in-person interview. This turned out to be a group interview of 3 other candidates. Was first asked to take a grammar quiz, similar to GMAT reading comprehension questions. Then was asked to do a basic intelligence quiz (pattern recognition and basic arithmetic). Final was a simplistic Excel test, which consisted formatting and absolute reference tasks. (Was asked to build a multiplication table using a single formula and add values across multiple worksheets). Next was one on one interviews with current employees to get an idea of fit. Only 1 question was scripted, which was "what is your greatest weakness?"
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