Bracebridge Capital Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (72%)

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3.6
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (94%)

The Interview Difficulty is a score ranging from very difficult (red) to very easy (green) generated based on the Interview Insights at this company.

The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. The higher the number, the more difficult the interviews on average. If you hover over the various sections of the doughnut, you will see the % breakdown of each score given.

The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more insights, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire data set.

3.3
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

Interviews at Bracebridge Capital

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Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2022
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Macro
Location Boston
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Easy
Intern
Year 2023
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Hedge Fund
Location boston
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Intern
Year 2020
Job Title Intern
Group/Division N/A
Location Boston
Experience
Negative
Difficulty
Difficult
Intern
Year 2015
Job Title Intern
Group/Division N/A
Location Boston
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2013
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Generalist
Location Boston
Experience
Negative
Difficulty
Difficult
1st Year Analyst
Year 2014
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Investment Research
Location Boston
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Analyst
Year 2014
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Investment Research
Location Boston
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average

Interview Questions & Answers - Bracebridge Capital Examples

Wintern Interview - Macro

Anonymous employee in Boston
Interviewed: November 2022
Date Submitted: Oct 08, 2023
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
One on one call with head of operations regarding past internship experience, aspirations, and personal interests - entirely behavioral
Interview Questions
No curveballs -- mainly typical behaviorals and how you heard of the fund
Sample Answer

Summer analyst Interview - Hedge Fund

Anonymous employee in boston
Interviewed: April 2023
Date Submitted: Apr 10, 2023
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Total of 3-4 rounds of interviews: 2 portfolio managers and then a senior executive officer followed by the director of recruiting. In general, it was very behavioral focused with some brain teasers. It seemed like they were looking for 1) how quickly you can think and absorb information and 2) your interest in the firm and the space
Interview Questions
- TMAY
- Why buy-side, and why fixed income?
- How did you hear about Bracebridge
- Resume-specific experience gauging
- Why should we hire you; what differentiates you from your peers?
- What do you do outside of school?
- Greatest strength, greatest weakness
- Brainteaser/seeing how fast you can learn
- How much do you know about recursion (proceeded to then give me a 2-min lecture about it)
- Bob is at the foot of some stairs. Each time he takes a step, he can either go 2 steps up or 1 step up. There are “n” steps, how many different combinations of ways to get to the top of the steps are there?
Sample Answer

Intern Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Boston
Interviewed: April 2020
Date Submitted: Aug 07, 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
This interview was hard. Very technical and brain teasers. Asked about what I thought of Jerome Powell's speech that occurred 30 mins before the interview
Interview Questions
A very complex brainteaser
Sample Answer

Summer Analyst Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Boston
Interviewed: March 2015
Date Submitted: Apr 08, 2015
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Basic finance questions, more moderate prob/stats questions. Overall I had a weak interview imo and could have prepared better.
Interview Questions
I was asked to explain an example problem from one of my options classes. It involved an underlying that was a function of a stochastic interest rate and I discussed how to derive the pricing PDE. It was quite messy to do over the phone.
Sample Answer

Summer Intern Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in Boston
Interviewed: January 2013
Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
I was actually asked a finance question despite stressing over the fact that I have not done finance before. The case in question that was studied was the Palm vs 3Comm price difference. See here:

http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/win02/market.html

I was first asked if there was anything wrong. After failing to answer, the interviewer suggested that I calculate the EV of the stock prices and seeing that there was a discrepancy asked me to offer an explanation. I tried guessing in general, and actually was fairly close to the official explanation, however I wavered quite a bit in the explanations.

No offer - but no fit questions either.
Interview Questions
Palm vs 3Comm price difference:

i.e. why was 3Comm's price so high despite the fact that the company is not doing so well? I don't quite remember the details.

See the detailed review.
Sample Answer

Investment Analyst Interview - Investment Research

Anonymous interview candidate in Boston
Interviewed: September 2014
Date Submitted: Nov 12, 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Was an on-campus interview. First round was a 45 minute 1 on 1 interview. Asked very specifically about every part of the resume including coursework, work experience, extracurricular activities, hobbies etc. Then asked a brainteaser question and a question about whether to increase or decrease interest rates. Also asked that if I had money, where would I invest in and why.
Interview Questions
What are the economic factors to consider when choosing to increase interest rate, why are they important, what are the effects of increasing the interest rate.
Brainteaser. 100 doors are closed. There are 100 people. First person walks by all the doors and open every. Second person walks by all the even numbered doors and closes the open ones and opens the closed one and so on until the 100th person. At the end, which doors would be open.
Sample Answer

Investment Analyst Interview - Investment Research

Anonymous interview candidate in Boston
Interviewed: September 2014
Date Submitted: Nov 12, 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Was an on-campus interview. First round was a 45 minute 1 on 1 interview. Asked very specifically about every part of the resume including coursework, work experience, extracurricular activities, hobbies etc. Then asked a brainteaser question and a question about whether to increase or decrease interest rates. Also asked that if I had money, where would I invest in and why.
Interview Questions
What are the economic factors to consider when choosing to increase interest rate, why are they important, what are the effects of increasing the interest rate.
Brainteaser was about having 100 doors, 100 people walk by. First person open all doors, second person closes open doors or opens closed doors for the even numbered doors and so on. How many doors will be left open at the end.
Sample Answer