Sun Capital Interview Questions

4 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (66%)

The Interview Experience is a score from 1 star (very negative) to 5 stars (very positive) generated based on the Interview Insights at this company.

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 donut, 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 reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire dataset.

3.5
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (86%)

The Interview Difficulty is a score ranging from very difficult (red) to very easy (green) generated based on the Interview Insights at this company.

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.

3.3
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

Interviews at Sun Capital

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3rd+ Year Associate
Year 2020
Job Title 3rd+ Year Associate
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Quant
Year 2017
Job Title Quant
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location Vancouver
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Associate
Year 2014
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division Generalist
Location Boca Raton
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Associate
Year 2013
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division Leveraged Finance
Location Boca Raton
Experience
Negative
Difficulty
Average

Interview Questions & Answers - Sun Capital Examples

Associate Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: February 2020
Date Submitted: May 13, 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Group Interview
Skills Test
Interview
First step was a phone interview (half technical, half fit questions). Second step was a take-home case study / modeling test.
Interview Questions
Would you rather have $1 of debt paydown or $1 of EBITDA growth?
Sample Answer

Quant Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous interview candidate in Vancouver
Interviewed: December 2017
Date Submitted: Apr 12, 2018
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Wall street is shifting to developing jobs, so be sure to prepare for ML and trees and C++. Good luck
Interview Questions
virtual function in C++
fair coin, HH or TT will win, chance of winning

Let n points be on the circle. The probability that the given n-gon includes the center of the circle.


How do you delete a node in BST?

There are six cities and two modes of transportation. Each pair of cities is connected by exactly one mode of transportation. Is it a guarantee that there is a three-city cycle connected by the same mode of transportation?

What is polymorphism? What is inheritance? What is a virtual function?

Suppose there is an arbitrary triangle in a plane and a point in the plane is give. How can you determine whether the point is inside or outside the triangle by writing a simple (pseudo-)code?

Suppose there is a circle with unit circumference in a two-dimensional plane. You throw three points randomly onto the circumference of the circle. What is the probability that the center of the circle is inside the triangle formed by these three random points?

They asked me one question about C++ overload operator "+" and another question is about calculating probability for one event.
Sample Answer

Associate Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in Boca Raton
Interviewed: August 2014
Date Submitted: Aug 20, 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Interview
Had an initial phone screening and then went to Boca for a superday. Generally, the superday was pretty easy. I had one on one interviews with 6 people in the firm and received mostly deal and fit questions. I did receive some common technical questions as well, including a paper LBO. I also heard the next round would have been a case study.
Interview Questions
Calculate the returns for this Paper LBO scenario. Given financials, purchase multiples, leverage, etc.

Had to calculate the FCF, sources and uses, MOIC, and IRR.
How would you value a company that has negative EBITDA due to the business cycle and it being a very cyclical industry?

Would need to normalize the EBITDA and take into account the business cycle into the valuation.
Sample Answer

pre-MBA Associate Interview - Leveraged Finance

Anonymous interview candidate in Boca Raton
Interviewed: 2013
Date Submitted: Jan 30, 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Process was very slow and managed through someone who appeared to be an admin. Went through 3 phone interviews with people at the firm of different levels and took nearly 2-3 weeks between each round. Overall process seemed very unorganized with little communication. Each call was very similar -- walk through resume and deal experience, go over a few tech questions included LBO driver and quick LBO math, and why Sun and why Boca. Everyone I spoke too seemed very nice and had solid experience.
Interview Questions
If you buy a $30M company for 5x and EBITDA stays constant at exit, what multiple do we need to exit at to make a 20% IRR
Sample Answer