Evercore Interview Questions
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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.
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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.
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The % of Interns Getting a Full Time Offer chart is meant to provide a realistic estimate of the hiring practices of the company based on the reviews 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 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 reviews). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to the simple company average and away from the average of the entire data set.
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Interview Questions & Answers - Evercore Examples
Summer Analyst Interview - Investment Banking
Summer Analyst Interview - Mergers and Acquisitions
There was a difficult accretion dillution math problem were you had to back solve for the break even interest rate on debt (for the deal to be neutral to EPS). I don't remember the numbers though.
I got asked a lot about what types of things bankers work on and what the job is like.
Many standard accounting questions, but also I question were I had to walk through the impacts of PIK debt on the 3 statements.
Tell me about a business in your college town -- how would you value that business?
Walk me through the competitive landscape of an industry you are interested in.
The gave a few softballs at the end after the technicals: what do you do for fun?
Summer Analyst Restructuring Interview - Restructuring
Room 1 - Pure Behavioral room - mostly just random questions that they wanted to ask (Very Chill)
1. TMAY
2. Why RX
3. What was it like growing up in X
4. Can you tell me more about X and what you were responsible for there [Top
Experience]
5. Where do you see yourself in 5 years
6. Why did you decide to move from X to X
7. What is something not on your resume that you would like to share
8. What do you like to spend your free time on? [Took 20-30% of entire interview]
Room 2 - Technical Room Rapid Fire
In general you should get all these right from my experience + experience from other people that had this interview. The techs below are really easy and you won’t run into anything simpler
1. Difference between chapter 7 and 11
2. Characteristics of a distressed company
3. Options available to debtors if they go bankrupt
4. Bond Pricing Question [Standard, use the current yield + price appreciation formula]
5. Different reasons a bond would be priced differently
6. Would you rather hold debt in a holding company or an operating company
7. What is structural subordination
8. Company is running out of liquidity, what can you do [I named 9-10 before they stopped
me]
9. Buying back debt at a discount? 3 Financial statements
10. Waterfall Question - dont remember exact numbers but it was a simple
under-collateralization example
11. Some warrant-equity question that I don’t remember [I partially messed up on this but
got it at the end]
Room 3 - Bit more technicals and behaviorals
1. TMAY
2. WHY EVR (Pressed Really hard here)
3. Why would equity value be above 0 if secured and unsecured are trading below par
4. What tests are applied in a chapter 11 to pass a POR
5. Issues X amount of debt with 5% cash interest rate and 5% PIK
a. Walk through three statements at Y0 and Y1
6. What things do you think you would include on a rx pitch as an analyst
7. What other processes are you involved in and how does EVR compare to them
a. Obv say all your processes it helps to show that other firms are interested in you too
Rest of time we talked about interests and restaurants in NYC [20-30% of time]
Summer Analyst Interview - Restructuring
Senior Associate Interview - Investment Banking
Associate Interview - Restructuring
Interview went as follows:
1. Tell me about yourself
2. Technical portion. Essentially how many technical questions can you answer correctly in the given time frame.
3. Any questions?
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