Analyst

Status
2nd Year Analyst at
Group/Division/Type
Investment Management
City
Central
Interviewed
May 2019
Overall experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average

General Interview Information

Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
2-3 months

Interview Details

What did the interview consist of?
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Personality Test
Background Check
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
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
What were the most difficult or unexpected interview questions asked?
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
How did you answer each of these questions (please be specific)?
I walked through a couple of ideas I'd traded, why I thought the thesis made sense / what consensus was / how to approach valuation. I focused on names with 12-18 month runway as opposed to short-term ideas

Overall Company Rankings

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Overall Ranking

Overall Ranking is a score from 1 star (very bad) to 5 stars (excellent) generated based on the Company Reviews of current and former employees at this company, taking everything into account.

The number you see in the middle of the donut 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 reviews). 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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Career Advancement Opportunities

Career Advancement Opportunities is a score from 1 star (very bad) to 5 stars (excellent) generated based on the Company Reviews of current and former employees at this company, taking everything into account.

The number you see in the middle of the donut 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 reviews). 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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Senior Management

Senior Management is a score from 1 star (very bad) to 5 stars (excellent) generated based on the Company Reviews of current and former employees at this company, taking everything into account.

The number you see in the middle of the donut 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 reviews). 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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