Onex Interview Questions
The Interview Experience is a score from 1 star (very negative) to 5 stars (very positive) 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. If you hover over the various sections of the donut, 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 reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire dataset.
- Very Negative
- Negative
- Neutral
- Positive
- Very Positive
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.
- Very Easy
- Easy
- Average
- Difficult
- Very Difficult
Interview Questions & Answers - Onex Examples
Associate Interview - Prime Brokerage
1st Year Private Equity Associate Interview - Private Equity
1. If you had 2 million to buy a house and the bank was willing to lend 100k at 1%, 200k at 2%, 300k at 3% etc. How much would you borrow?
Eventually, interviewer said that your required rate of return on your own equity is 7% what does that mean?
2. You own a bakery and sell bread for $1. Everyday, people that come into the bakery will buy one piece of bread. The chance of 1 person coming into the bakery is 99%, 2 people is 98%, 3 people is 97% etc. how much bread should you make?
Summer Analyst Interview - Generalist
The phone interview is 30 mins long.
Why Onex?
Talk about yourself.
Do a stock pitch: what's the overview? What are your invetsment thesis? What metrics did you use? how are these metrics comparing to the industry and its competitors? What's the company's competitive advantage in the market? Is it a good LBO candidate?
How to increase IRR? Why do PE firms do an LBO except for the cash flow that brings in? How does a PE firm bring up its return before selling out the business?What about in a acquisition perspective?
What's multiple arbitrage?
What's your extracurricular? Can you talk about it more?
Summer Analyst Interview - Private Equity
$100k at 1% int.
$200k at 2% int.
$300k at 3% int.
$400k at 4% int.
$500k at 5% int.
$600k at 6% int.
$700k at 7% int.
$800k at 8% int.
$900k at 9% int.
$1 million at 10% int.
Assuming we want to optimize our purchase structure, how much debt should we take out?
Summer Intern Interview
• If you were the President of Mongolia, and you had to make a decision between strengthening trade with China or Russia, and you could only pick one which country would you choose?
• What are the differences between paying for a building with cash and paying for it with debt? How do these changes affect the financial statements of the company in the future?
• Graph of d/e vs wacc
, • What happens if terminal year FCF are negative? If so, how does this effect your enterprise value calculation?
• If you were the President of Mongolia, and you had to make a decision between strengthening trade with China or Russia, and you could only pick one which country would you choose?
• What are the differences between paying for a building with cash and paying for it with debt? How do these changes affect the financial statements of the company in the future?
• Graph of d/e vs wacc
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