PE track
Private Equity interview questions
Private equity interviews assume you already know the banking technicals and test whether you can think like an investor. Paper LBOs under time pressure, and a real view on whether a deal is worth doing.
Any one track is free. No account, no card.
Coverage
What this track covers
Buyout investing. LBO modelling, deal judgement, paper LBOs, investment theses.
- LBO
- Valuation
- DCF
- Accounting
- M&A
- Deal judgement
- Paper LBOs
- Behavioural
Sample
Five real questions from this track
Straight from the 100 in the app. Each one comes with a model answer, the follow-ups an interviewer would ask next, and the trap most candidates walk into — those stay inside.
- Accounting Why does a sponsor still run financial diligence when the target has audited accounts?
- Behavioural What will you find hardest about moving from banking to private equity?
- Deal judgement What goes into a 100-day plan, and why is the window so short?
- LBO Why is a bolt-on acquisition usually accretive to a sponsor's returns?
- Paper LBOs What can you legitimately simplify in a paper LBO, and what must you not?
Other desks
Interviewing somewhere else too?
Pro opens all 7 for €10 a month — worth it the moment you are applying across more than one desk.
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Sell-side market making and prop risk-taking. Mental math, probability, market structure, risk.
Make PE your free track
All 100 questions, 30 cases and 12 formula sheets, at no cost and with no time limit.