"Basic Excel Test" at HFF/Eastdil

Guys,

Could use some help. I recently interviewed for an analyst position at a debt placement team in NYC at an HFF/Eastdil type shop. I had two rounds of interviews where most of the questions were personality/fit based (very few technical q's), but I have now been asked to come in for a "basic excel test".

What would you expect this to be? Amort tables/building out a proforma? Or something less modeling related such as seeing if I know how to do things like countIF/sumIF statements?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

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depends on the shop. I had an obscure 3rd party excel test i took about a year ago for a similar brokerage and it was nothing related to modeling and asked random excel questions like "under data tab, what does x mean" and then it gave definitions of the term. so from several excel tests i have taken pre/post interviews, I would say it depends.

 

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