Stone Pier Capital Advisors Interview Questions

4 total interview insight submissions

Interview Experience (97%)

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Interview Difficulty (19%)

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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 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.

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% Interns - FT Offers (1%)

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The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. 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 reviews). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to the simple company average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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Interviews at Stone Pier Capital Advisors

YearPositionLocationGroup/DivisionExperienceDifficulty
2020Summer AnalystPittsburghMergers and AcquisitionsVery PositiveVery Easy
2016Investment Banking Winter AnalystPittsburghN/APositiveAverage
2013InternPittsburghMergers and AcquisitionsVery PositiveEasy
2013InternshipPittsburghMergers and AcquisitionsVery PositiveVery Easy

Summer Analyst Interview - Mergers and Acquisitions

Anonymous employee in Pittsburgh

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Employee Referral

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: May 2020 Date Submitted: Jun 08, 2020

Application

Phone Interview

Interview

Super lay back hiring process process, I emailed one of the MD's 2 weeks prior to getting my interview with them. The interview was mostly behavioral based questions such as: Walk me through your resume. Why Investment Banking? Why SPC? Three strengths and three weaknesses? What do you know about Investment Banking? How do you feel about working from home? Do you think working from home will have an effect on the quality of your work? Give me an example of a time where you were on a team and needed to work with people who might not have the same knowledge / skillset as you do? etc.

Interview Questions

Here is a list of the questions I reviewed to help prepare me for the interview:
Walk me through your resume
Why Stone Pier Capital?
How do you feel about working from home? Do you think working from home will have an effect on the quality of your work?
Give me an example of a time where you were on a team and needed to work with people who might not have the same knowledge / skillset as you do?
What are 3 strengths, and 3 weaknesses?
What is the best experience that you can provide that demonstrates your skills and weaknesses?
How did you find out about this internship?
What makes you interested in finance?
What makes you interested in IB?
What do you know about investment banking?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Do you have any other particular questions for me?
Sample Answer

Investment Banking Winter Analyst Interview

Anonymous employee in Pittsburgh

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Other

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: December 2016 Date Submitted: Oct 16, 2017

Application

Phone Interview

Interview

I was contacted via email for a phone screen with the Managing Director running the internship program.

Interview Questions

Walk me through resume.
Give me an example of a time where you were on a team and needed to work with people who might not have the same knowledge/skillset as you do?
What is the best experience that you can provide that demonstrates your skills and weaknesses?
What are your 3 strengths, and 3 weaknesses?
How did you find out about this internship?
Do you have any particular questions for me?
What makes you interested in finance?
What do you know about investment banking?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Sample Answer

Intern Interview - Mergers and Acquisitions

Anonymous employee in Pittsburgh

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Employee Referral

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: August 2013 Date Submitted: Aug 23, 2013

Application

Phone Interview

Interview

Stone Pier Capital has a structured internship program in place for students with any level of experience, which made it an attractive internship for me to pursue. I reached out to one of the MD's via email in early July, who responded later that day with a request to contact him again in mid-August.

Upon emailing him and the other MD in August, I set up a phone interview for the following week. The phone interview was basic and consisted of me telling my story and answering a few expected questions (why finance, why SPC, etc.). A little over a week later, I was informed that I had been selected as one of the interns. It was a very smooth and easy process overall.

Interview Questions

Why Stone Pier Capital?

I talked about how them having a structured program for students like me spoke a lot about how they wanted students to learn and succeed.
How did you get interested in finance?

I spoke about how I had talked with two cousins of mine that work at a BB IBD and how their description of the work had convinced me to choose finance as a major. Research and taking classes since then has convinced me finance is my interest.
Sample Answer

Internship Interview - Mergers and Acquisitions

Anonymous employee in Pittsburgh

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Employee Referral

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: 2013 Date Submitted: Jun 21, 2013

Application

Phone Interview

Interview

Short, non-technical interview mostly comprised of standard behavioral questions. No surprises here.

Interview Questions

How do you feel about working from home? Do you think working from home will have an effect on the quality of your work?
I don't mind working from home. In fact I think it will be beneficial since I do some of my highest quality work between the hours of 10pm-2am.
Sample Answer