FT Partners Technical Interview
I received an invite to a 30-min technical round with FT Partners. I was wondering what technicals everyone has been asked in the past. Please comment down below.
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My understanding is that SA recruiting is wrapped up for 2023. Is this for a full time role?
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Went through it, it's bullshit. Just brush up on your BIWS 400 and do some additional research about the business models of the different firms operating in fintech.
Thanks for the information. We're there any questions that caught you off guard (e.g., Fama French, Black Scholes)?
Nothing that advanced, maybe just do a quick review of what the main structured equity products are. Fintech is fairly young, so some private placements also include warrants or even convertible debt depending on the business model.
Also a good thing to do is to look up a fintech firm that you like and be able to explain their entire business model, how they actually make money and what it means in terms of valuation.
I got asked a question about fama-french in the superday, along with some difficult LBO questions. First round technicals were pretty much straight from the 400 questions guide.
Also, jw why you say it was bullshit?
Felt that the questions were coming straight from BIWS 400 tbh.
Ftp won’t be a technical place so it won’t have difficult questions. It’ll just be extremely sweaty
Personally my technicals weren’t bad at all a few years ago. Mostly centered on valuation fundamentals. They focus more on industry questions.
What were some of the more difficult industry questions?
It was a pretty long time ago but I basically had an in-depth conversation about different subsectors of fintech and the industry in general with every person who interviewed me. Make sure you know some details about multiple private fintech companies in varying segments. E.g., a payments company, a securities company, and a lender / bank. Make sure you can speak to how someone might value an unprofitable high-growth startup and what kind of SaaS metrics would be notable. There is a lot of free info from Y Combinator about unit economics. FT Partners also publishes a ton of relevant research themselves.
Congrats, great firm (140 as An1 btw)
140k base as An1 btw
I already posted my question in another thread, but this one seems to have more people responding to interview questions. I hope you don't mind me posting one again. Happy to delete the other post if advised to do so. I am a lateral candidate and will be speaking with an MD for 45 minutes. Could we please share some tips what to prepare? I assume it will be mostly fit but I would love to hear more from those who have lateralled or have heard from friends who did. Thanks!
Is this meeting with an MD after you had your SD?
What does SD mean?
Super day. I heard that for FT Partners the super day is not actually the final round (I.e., you typically have one more meeting with an MD if you pass the super day)
I am not quite clear on this interview structure and I think that since this is lateral, this may be different. They call this meeting to be a "final round" and after this, they will fly me out to meet people in person, and that can also be a full day loaded with interviews. I have no clue and the recruiters are not willing to share much more besides whom I will be speaking with and what time.
Make sure you know how to sketch the founder’s face coin, heard this was the final round
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