Senior Acquisitions Analyst

I saw a post for the job opening online and applied through the website. Two weeks later I had no heard back. I looked through the companies profile and found an alumni from my university. I reached out to them directly and they put me in touch with the recruiter that had been using. After a quick screening call with him I was invited to come into their office to interview with the hiring manager and head of their HR department.

I met with the head of HR/head of the family office first. The interview was very casual. Typical questions tell me about yourself, walk me through your resume, why real estate, what does your current position entail etc. It went very well

The second person I interview with was the hiring manager and head of the real estate group. He ask me to walk through my resume. He would stop me and ask probing questions about my experiences and how I thought that would relate to the open position. He asked me to walk him through a JV transaction, multiple hurdle cash flow waterfall, and my current positions investment criteria. I have 3 years of prior real estate acquisitions experience, but he was very critical of my "quantitative" abilities. The interview concluded with the hiring manager asking for some work samples to confirm my abilities.

Overall, the two interviews felt a bit like good cop bad cop. Three days later I was informed they had extended an offer to another candidate.