Hello - I have a Real Estate phone interview coming up. I was told to be prepared for some case-based questions. Does anyone have any insight into what this might entail? It's not an in-person modeling exercise so curious if people have an idea of what to prepare for. Thanks!
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Case based interviews I've had were they would give an OM and leave the room for 10-15 min to read through and do some back of the napkin calcs then they come back and had to give a recommendation and thought process for why. Not sure how something like this would work over the phone though
Yes-I've only seen it in in-person interviews. Any thoughts on questions asked via phone interview?
No clue. I would imagine it may be a similar set up but just emailing an OM shortly before the interview starts
"case based questions" can mean a lot of things. But there is a general theme:
"What If" (i.e. we could buy this, had this opportunity or problem, etc.)
then the question...
What would you do/how would you do it,/what would you recommend
What kind of firm is this? Real estate is fairly generic. I'm guessing it must be principal investing in some form, but I guess you could mean consulting/services/brokerage or whatever. If you tell the firm type, you may get better insights.
It's for a strategy and operations role at Two Sigma to help build out the private RE side of things. So have to understand the valuation etc to help deal team but also set strategy. Interview is tomorrow.
I would think that may draw a lot of "client has this issue... how would you solve"? type questions.
The key to most cases is not the answer you give per se (unless its really stupid or out of line), but the approach to your answer and how you think it.
They would want to imagine how you may react if a client actually asked you that question and you were there representing 2s, that is the frame work I would work from. I'd be careful about too much BS/fluff, try to keep it logical and simple. Curious what you get hit with!
Pretty interesting they're getting into that, this is for private market not real estate equities right? Saw a quant role looks like they want to build algos that select markets to focus re investment on
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