Prudential Capital Group Assessment Test

I have to take an assessment test from Prudential. It says do no prepare and answer honestly. Is this just a behavior/personality test? If so anyone have any Idea what kind of questions they ask? I have an OCR interview with them soon.

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I got an interview with Prudential capital group. It was great interview but after I had to take an online assessment test. I hadn't eaten all day and this was around 6 p.m. after my interview and all my classes. The test says theres no preparation needed so i thought it was purely behavioral but there is a section with about 10 questions 3 min time limi each all logical. There was a girl singing in the library while I took the test. Then there was about 100 behavioral questions after ... I think because of that assessment I may not get invited to 2nd round. But we shall see

 

No the superday for east coast offices will be this friday i believe for west coast it is on monday oct 5th. I haven't heard back yet but i did interview last week Thursday. I'm just upset about the assessment test, wasn't in the best condition just as pho.

 

My superday is on Monday Oct 5th ... It seems that for the West Coast the last resume drop is for non target schools today Sept 30. I'm hoping to hear back tomorrow or Friday. If not I'm just going to go to the office and invite myself for super days =D haha. Check when the last resume drops are for your area, I'm sure after all the applications they'll start sending out invites for 2nd round.

 

Hey, the interviewer mentioned that super day is this Friday. But she also said that I should hear back within 24 hours (it's been 48 hours already). Hope will hear back tomorrow :( did you guys hear back yet?

It ain't what you know, it's who you know
 

I interviewed with them a few years ago....this was close to graduation when I was close to (and did) graduate without a job. The first round was a phone interview and the second round was the superday with a written assessment and 5-6 interviews. The role is lending focused with elements of PE and sorta-IB mixed in to a degree. Funny enough, my entire goal during that time was landing in IB and it threw me off when I saw a guy from a decent IB shop interviewing there on superday as well (was thinking to myself "I would do anything to have your role")......

Solid place to go as far as out of school opportunities.....

 

They asked me several ratio questions.

Def know your financial statements.

Know the different types of debt as well.

At the end, they also asked me how would I evaluate a company that has been around for a while but currently struggling. The answer they were looking for is how strong the management of the company is.

 

Basically what dew2229 said. What you would look for if you were investing in debt (not issuing). Know your statements, how to calculate free cash flow and what that means, etc. I had to choose only 1 "best" financial statement and why. And then back to the debt lending question again: What I would look for specifically in that statement if I were to analyze a company's creditworthiness. The more corporate finance you know, particularly about different types of debt, the better. I was interviewing for the Chicago office.

 

Think of PCG as banking-lite. They are responsible for managing the assets under Prudential, and they select certain companies in which to invest senior and mezzanine debt.

However, they get performance fees based upon how much capital is actually used (i.e., how much debt they give out), so they do need to still find willing companies to take their money.

Kind of a weird mix between buy-side and sell-side.

 

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