1st round with Perella Weinberg

WSO has helped me get into ibanking before and I hope it can help me move up in banking again. This is for a lateral position in banking and not PE. I've read the previous threads on PWP but Perella is now a larger bank now - what has changed?

What key advice do you guys have? Any non-usual technical questions (curve-balls?) Thanks to all beforehand.

 

Each person you interview is going to have different technicals that they'll ask you. There's no way to tell if they're going to stress accounting, valuation, fit, whatever. Just make sure that you are solid on the basics and you'll be fine. Good luck man.

 

Very reputable boutique.

  • Learn accounting, valuation models etc.
  • Try and find out if you are interviewing for a specific sector and be able to discuss reasons you want to work in that area
  • Talk about what you did in a previous deal to help others / make yourself look like a leader
  • Prepare some questions for the interviewer
  • Look at their previous transactions and have reasons why xyz transaction interested you / attracted you to PWP
 
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had interviews there not so long ago know the accounting behind PIK interest (flowing thru 3 statements) know how incremental D&A will affect a multiple (i.e. if you expect an additional $10 of maintenance CapEx in Year 4, will your EV/EBITDA multiple increase or decrease) know how selling a product (i.e. booking $100) flows through the statements (sounds easy, but trips people up)

and of course all the basics (DCF, $10 of Depreciation, knowing applicable multiples, etc.)

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Have a friend (a top student and doing BB banking this Summer) who interviewed and said it was very technical. He also got the feeling they did not like non-target kids, but that was just the vibe he was getting from his Harvard grad interviewer.

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