Associate
Status
1st Year Associate at
Group/Division/Type
Energy
City
Greenwich
Interviewed
July 2012
Overall experience
Difficulty
General Interview Information
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Interview Details
What did the interview consist of?
1 on 1 Interview
Presentation
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
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
- 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
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