TPG Global Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (78%)

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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 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.

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Interview Difficulty (99%)

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.

3.4
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% Interns - FT Offers (58%)

The % of Interns Getting a Full Time Offer chart is meant to provide a realistic estimate of the hiring practices of the company based on the reviews 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 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 TPG Global

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Investment Analyst
Year 2024
Job Title Investment Analyst
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location New York
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
Investment Analyst
Year 2024
Job Title Investment Analyst
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location San Francisco
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
1st Year Associate
Year 2024
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division Private Equity
Location New York
Experience
Negative
Difficulty
Difficult
2nd Year Analyst
Year 2019
Job Title 2nd Year Analyst
Group/Division Investment Banking
Location San Francisco
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
2nd Year Analyst
Year 2019
Job Title 2nd Year Analyst
Group/Division Investment Management
Location Central
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
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Intern
Year 2018
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Investments
Location Beijing
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Associate
Year 2018
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division N/A
Location San Francisco
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
2nd Year Analyst
Year 2015
Job Title 2nd Year Analyst
Group/Division Generalist
Location San Francisco
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
1st Year Associate
Year 2014
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division Generalist
Location Beijing
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
3rd+ Year Analyst
Year 2014
Job Title 3rd+ Year Analyst
Group/Division Private Equity
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Very Easy

Interview Questions & Answers - TPG Global Examples

Associate Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous employee in New York
Interviewed: April 2024
Date Submitted: Mar 25, 2025
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Skills Test
Interview
Started with a couple of phone/video calls. Phone call was just initial recruiter pre-screen, then had a video call with basic valuation questions and resume skills walkthrough. Next, we went to the on-site superday, we met a VP an went through some questions there as well.
Interview Questions
What are the steps to the LBO buyout?
What are the key drivers of value creation?
Sample Answer

Associate Interview - Private Equity

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: October 2024
Date Submitted: Feb 12, 2025
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Interview was 2 30 minute interviews + model test. Both interviews focused on technicals, also had a model debrief after the model test. Interviewers were decently abrupt and did not small talk or ask many things about me. Was purely about if I was able to answer the technicals. Each tech was followed by a deeper question, and the interview was overall a stress test.
Interview Questions
Walk me through an income statement for a services company and compare it against a manufacturing company.
Sample Answer

Associate Interview - Investment Banking

Anonymous interview candidate in San Francisco
Interviewed: October 2019
Date Submitted: Nov 05, 2020
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Initial call with a VP to go over background and the responsibilities of the role. Also included some general questions on how I view certain industries and the criteria I would use to analyze a potential investment, then asked to give a qualitative pitch for a potential investment. Had another call with a another VP that more or less followed the same structure a few days later.
Interview Questions
Describe the factors you would use to analyze a private investment?

How will the election results influence the PE sector?

What makes you tick?
Sample Answer

Analyst Interview - Investment Management

Anonymous interview candidate in Central
Interviewed: May 2019
Date Submitted: Oct 18, 2020
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
2-3 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Personality Test
Background Check
Interview
I had one-on-one interview with everyone on the team (~10 professionals in the investment team). Focus was on prior corporate finance-related experience, investing experience (I'd worked on the public markets prior), selected stocks I liked, and fit
Interview Questions
Walk me through a transaction experience - this would have been easy for peers coming from IBD, but I had public markets experience so had to guide the interviewer towards how I thought like an investor, and what made a stock tick
Sample Answer

Private equity Interview - Investments

Anonymous interview candidate in Beijing
Interviewed: September 2018
Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2018
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
TPG 2 telephone interviews. Each contains tech and behavior questions.
Basic financial statement knowledge.
Interview Questions
TPG 2 telephone interviews. Each contains tech and behavior questions.
Basic financial statement knowledge.
Deal-based questions.
One asked me how to deal with the deferred tax assets/liabilities.
The other asked me to go through the LBO Model for the TMT industry.
We talked about the deal I worked on before, a fresh online retail company with the excellent O2O supply chain in it.
As for the behavior, he asked me about the motivation and insights towards this job.
And addition question to ask him.
Sample Answer

Associate Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in San Francisco
Interviewed: February 2018
Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2018
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
Headhunters reached out directly regarding specific groups within the fund that were hiring. They asked about the ideal start date. The process included several first round phone calls and Skype interviews. The final round included an all day interview at their HQ, including building an LBO from scratch and other technical questions.
Interview Questions
The interviewers provided about 2 hours to build an LBO from scratch and then to discuss the investment thesis with an associate. The discussion centered around why certain assumptions were chosen, why mistakes were made, and overall risks and benefits of the investment.
There were other questions revolving around ranking businesses in a supply chain from best investments to the worst. This involved conceptual understanding of drivers of value, and a willingness to be wrong and adapt given new information.
Sample Answer

Analst Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in San Francisco
Interviewed: August 2015
Date Submitted: Aug 28, 2015
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Skills Test
Interview
Analyst known through networking / college / current job or internship will reach out. Consists of phone inteviews with analyst followed by skype and superday with senior management. Highly technical, not your usual case study. Paper lbo required. Great people and great firm but highly competitive.
Interview Questions
Paper LBO, walk me through an LBO, Exit strategy, good LBO candidates, why SF / Houston, why PE, explain a div recap
Sample Answer

Private Equity Associate Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in Beijing
Interviewed: May 2014
Date Submitted: Nov 27, 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Staffing Agency
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
First Round: two phone interviews, one with a VP and one with a MD/Partner, each last approximately 1 hour
Second Round: Modeling Test, 40min model, 40min write-up, 40min discussion
Final Round: Five 1 on 1 interviews, positions covered Parner/MD/Principal/VP/Senior Associate
Interview Questions
Most questions were focused on the deals I had done. However, in the final round with the partner, he asked to propose investment ideas and challenged me to justify my investment logic
Sample Answer

Analyst in TPG Credit Interview - Private Equity

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: 2014
Date Submitted: Sep 10, 2014
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Presentation
Skills Test
Interview
Got interview through Dynamics Headhunting firm. First round was 3 1-on- interviews that lasted ~2 hours. Each interviewer asked a mix of fit and technical questions (background, school, deal experience, EBITDA to cash flow, unlevered FCF vs levered FCF, etc.). Second round was 6 1-on-1 interviews; 4 of them were fit, 2 were technical (1 was logic based, 1 was finance based). Third round was a case study; they gave me a debt offering memorandum, I had to build a model, investment memo on whether to invest or not, and present to a few people in the NY office and a few people from SF who were in attendance via video conference. "Fourth round" was then me talking to junior guys in the office to get a feel for culture, fit, etc.
Interview Questions
What was the high point of your college career? (interviewer was really into college football) Haha that's an easy one. I went to Ohio State so the high point was storming the field my senior year after Ohio State upset Wisconsin on the go-ahead touchdown with 2 seconds left in the game. Ohio State was unranked, as I'm sure you know, because of the tattoos for autographs scandal and we beat a highly ranked, heavy favorite, Wisconsin team. Interviewer asked then "That is awesome, I wish I went to a school with a good sports program so I could experience something like that. Okay so what was the low point of your college career?" I responded: I started off in engineering but decided to switch to finance; I had been trading stocks since I was 10 and decided to make finance more of a career path rather than just a hobby. I switched majors during my freshman year and began researching how to get internships. I quickly realized that going to a non-target was going to be a pretty tough hurdle to overcome and it was at that moment that I felt like I was at a trough and needed to work hard to overcome it. It made me prove to myself that I really wanted to work on Wall Street and was willing to put forth the work and dedication; This helped me to get opportunities intern at several banks including Merrill Lynch, Keybanc, and Goldman Sachs as well as ultimately land a buyside opportunity right out of undergrad.
Sample Answer

Associate Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in Los Angeles
Interviewed: February 2014
Date Submitted: Mar 31, 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Group Interview
Skills Test
Interview
Initial first round interview consisted of an on-premise case-study model test (template based) as well as investment thesis based on the completed model. Following the case-study, two associates went over the work product and asked additional questions about the investment thesis and potential risks based on the information presented.
Interview Questions
Defend assumptions used in filling out model template; teasing out additional, non-obvious risks of the transaction/target company industry
Sample Answer
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