Sageview Capital Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (42%)

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3.5
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  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (88%)

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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.

4
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  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

Interviews at Sageview Capital

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1st Year Associate
Year 2014
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division Generalist
Location Greenwich
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
1st Year Associate
Year 2012
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division Energy
Location Greenwich
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - Sageview Capital Examples

Private Equity Associate Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in Greenwich
Interviewed: January 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Group Interview
Interview
Was contacted by a headhunter for a first year associate position. Focus was on energy and industrials.
Interview Questions
How many wells are needed to derisk 20,000 acres in the Permian basin? Obviously a very open ended question. Must make assumptions about area, declines, benches, etc. They have an investment in the Permian so be very familiar with the basin economics.
You run a manufacturing company, please describe the different drivers of revenue growth. Response included growth in units or price expansion. Just be able to effectively communicate the impact the different grown drivers will have in margins. Want to see if you understand scale.

Associate Interview - Energy

Anonymous employee in Greenwich
Interviewed: July 2012
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Presentation
Interview
1st round: two 1-on-1 interviews and each lasted 30 min. Overall pretty technical. Questions include:

- Resume walk through
- Deal experience walk-through
- Tell me about the best business you have encountered and why
- Could you walk me through the resume build-up for this business?
- How do you calculate ROIC?


2nd round: 2 hour LBO modeling test


3rd round: 3 hour case study. Format:

- 1.5 hour to finish reading 10-K and investor pres for a public company (past companies include a QSR chain and a natural resources company); also need to build a detailed income statement for the company (revenue down to operating income)

- 1.5 hour to present your model and whether to invest in front of a group of Principals


Final Round: 1-on-1 meeting with the founder, who used to be a very senior executive at KKR

Interview Questions
- Resume walk through
- Deal experience walk-through
- Tell me about the best business you have encountered and why
- Could you walk me through the resume build-up for this business?
- How do you calculate ROIC?
- How does operating leverage work?

Case study questions:

- How to project growth rate of price and volume of aggregate shipments? By geography or end market demand?

- What’s the appropriate growth rate for fixed cost?

- How should variable cost be model? (on a per unit basis)

- How should SG&A be projected, as a % of sales or based on growth rate? (% sales may be misleading if sales growth is large driven by price increase)

- What is the main components of SG&A?

- What drives growth in SG&A even if the company is not expanding? (Cost of health plans for employees)

- Why is price of aggregates rising even though volume is decreasing? (Monopoly, bargaining power of suppliers)

- Is the aggregate business a regional or global one? Why?

- It is hard for aggregate producers to differentiate by product, so what can be the competitive advantage of one company vs. another?

- Would you prefer $1 increase in price or 1 unit increase in volume?