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About privateequityinterview.org

Free, no-login practice for private equity deal-team interviews, from associate to VP. A short sourced essay on what is changing as AI spreads, and five worked questions on one fictional company.

Independent

This site is not affiliated with any company it names, and is not endorsed by anyone quoted. Nothing here describes an official hiring rubric, reveals real interview questions or guarantees an offer.

How the worked examples are made

Every worked question uses Quillfield, a fictional insurance-claims business that sells software and outsourced document review. Its customers, revenue bridge, plans, model and memo are invented, and the same figures run through all five questions so they reconcile: $240m of FY25 revenue, $40m of EBITDA and a seller asking $400m. We recompute every number a step relies on in a test. We searched for the name and found no company called Quillfield; the nearest names were unrelated. The questions are ours, written for practice, not taken from any firm’s interviews.

Who it’s for

Associates, senior associates and VPs interviewing for private equity deal teams, including on-cycle candidates coming from banking and consulting. The questions test judgment on a deal, not modeling speed.

About the LBO calculator

The calculator is a paper LBO: it ignores fees, dividends and management equity and holds debt fixed apart from what cash flow repays. That is the mental model interviewers expect you to run without a spreadsheet, not a replacement for a deal model. It runs in your browser and stores nothing.

How the quotes are checked

Each quote links to where it was published, and we check its exact words against the publisher’s text. A quote is that person’s view, in their role at the time. The interview advice around it is ours.

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This site has no accounts, sets no cookies and records nothing you type. Each worked example has an optional notes box. Not saved by this site. Your browser may restore text when you navigate back. Links to Socratify carry a starting prompt written by us, never your notes. Socratify is a separate service with its own privacy policy.

Who publishes it

privateequityinterview.org is made by Socratify, an AI coach for interview practice.

Corrections

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Last reviewed Nov 9, 2026