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▲ 7 r/private_equity

Preparing for Secondaries PE Investment Associate Interview + Excel Test. What should I expect?

I’ve got an upcoming interview process for an Investment Associate role at a secondaries-focused private equity firm, which includes a short 15–30 minute Excel test, followed by a longer case study stage.

I was wondering if anyone could share insight into what I should expect at each stage.

For the Excel test, is it usually more focused on quick NAV-related calculations, portfolio/valuation mechanics, or more standard modelling exercises like a mini DCF/LBO? Or is it primarily designed to assess general Excel fluency under time pressure?

Finally, for the subsequent ~2 hour case study, what does that typically look like in secondaries. Is it more portfolio construction, pricing a secondary transaction, fund cash flow modelling, or something else?

Any guidance would be much appreciated, have tried to hunt in there forums/elsewhere but not much out there.

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u/Alternative_Mouse_57 — 8 days ago
▲ 5 r/financialmodelling

Preparing for Secondaries PE Investment Associate Interview + Excel Test. What should I expect?

I’ve got an upcoming interview process for an Investment Associate role at a secondaries-focused private equity firm, which includes a short 15–30 minute Excel test, followed by a longer case study stage.

I was wondering if anyone could share insight into what I should expect at each stage.

For the Excel test, is it usually more focused on quick NAV-related calculations, portfolio/valuation mechanics, or more standard modelling exercises like a mini DCF/LBO? Or is it primarily designed to assess general Excel fluency under time pressure?

Finally, for the subsequent ~2 hour case study, what does that typically look like in secondaries. Is it more portfolio construction, pricing a secondary transaction, fund cash flow modelling, or something else?

Any guidance would be much appreciated, have tried to hunt in there forums/elsewhere but not much out there.

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u/Alternative_Mouse_57 — 8 days ago
▲ 3 r/Yugioh101

Combining cards into one deck from the Legendy Moderns structure deck?

Hi all, have tried to look around for this - curious if there's a way to combine cards from the three different structure decks in the 'Legendary Modern' pack (typo in title!) to make the most efficient deck possible?

New to Yugioh (or rather, back after a long time), and wondering if there's any mixing and matching I can do to make one deck great. I get the sense Mitsurugi is the strongest, maybe pull out cards from X-saber or Sky Strikers for it?

TeamSamuraiX1 appears to have done some version of it in this video, wondering if this is actually the best bet. Unless I've misunderstood what he's doing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8eqeux2u0M&t=2468s

u/Alternative_Mouse_57 — 11 days ago