Feb 28, 2026

BS feedback from credit case study

Right, I'm fucked off. After two rounds of case studies, I was dinged because I "didn't go deep enough on the line items". These guys wanted the write-up to be capped at not many pages.

The first case study had broader instructions and all of us (of which are credit professionals) were called back to do it again with more explicit instructions to go in more detail on the credit and financial statements

I'm genuinely stumped as to how I could've gone deeper given the constraints and only publicly available information (annual reports, financial results), and going into detail on the financial statements - thats FDD, not credit. Hire a fucking big-4 not a Private Credit monkey.

Monkeys, pls help. I'm happy to share my write-ups and case study instructions for feedback, genuinely lost at this point.

Thanks

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Associate 3 in HF - Other

Sounds like you got used for free work. When I was recruiting, it definitely stung when these funds would make you do long case studies where you would have to dedicate hours of your time and then decide to move on. 

 

Hmm I don't think it was free work as its an established fund and had an external recruiter. I think they were looking for something specific, regardless I'd love some feedback on my case study if you're willing to take a look?

 

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