Generally, a pretty solid interviewer and know how to model pretty well but have recently run into issues with technical questions that aren't LBO related. Would anyone be willing to share some technical questions they've seen? Especially open-ended ones.
Thanks!
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I'd probably focus on being prepared to talk through your deals including S&U and how financial statements flow
yeah I expected questions like that too, instead got very open ended questions that I wasn't expecting
Such as?
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