Entry test - Junior Analyst

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1. How do you reduce payment transaction costs for companies in your portfolio?
Sas
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/219681
2. What are your three favorite fonts and why?
Font 1: Gill Sans for English writing
Font 2: Helvetica Neue: thin & clean, suitable for both VN & English.
Font 3: Verdana:

3. Imagine you were a social media manager for a current Presidential

Candidate, write a tweet.

4. You are paying Deloitte to value a potential investment target. How would you
get the highest possible valuation from the advisory?

5. You are to meet a real estate tycoon. What is the most important thing you'd
say, and what is one question you want to ask?

6. Write two Viber messages to motivate two frustrated CEO's. One message
should be in English, the other in a language other than English. The content of
the two messages are not required to be identical.

7. What is your favorite business model and why?

8. Give three reasons you want a portfolio firm to remain in the second highest
market share, not the top, not the third.

9. Why haven't all firms incorporated in tax havens such as the BVI?

10. The latest monthly revenues of a firm were 60K, 62K, and 78K. Operating
expenses outweigh gross margin. Sort the following in descending order of what
you want to change in valuing the firm and briefly explain why. Capex, Corporate
tax rate, Dividend payout, Growth rate after 5 years, Growth rate for the next 5
years, R&D capitalization, Risk appetite.

11. Discuss corporate governance structure, legal issues, and taxation of Masan
Group (HSX:MSN) and its parent.

12. Write an email to dissuade Shane Carruth from completing "Modern Ocean".

13. List two companies (not necessarily public) for each of the following cases:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

In
In
In
In
In

the US which you want to long.

the US which you want to short.
Singapore which you want to long.
Singapore which you want to short.
Vietnam which you want to long.

Briefly explain why.

14. Quantify reliability of Google Analytics.

15. Devise a practically feasible scheme for orchestrating the next major
financial meltdown.

16. You are assigned to mentor an intern who has Classics (Literature)
background. She is struck with panic attack every time somebody mentions
anything related to Math. In the next 8 hours she will need to estimate the
following calculation in 2 seconds without using any calculator. Describe how you
would train her.
Note: analysts need to perform this task during meetings.

0.67 1.195 1.02

5
i
0.13
0.67 1.19
+
1.13i
5
1.13
i=1

17. How would you coerce a 5-year experienced ABAP Engineer to "move fast
and break things"?

18. How would you connect IT to agriculture? Be as specific as possible.

19. If you were hiring for this position, compose a test question.

20. Use humor to insult the author of the following code:

for (i = 0 ; i < numberOfAssets1 ; i++)
{
w[i][0] = securityValue1 / (pdt[startPeriod1][i]);
}
for (i = 0 ; i < numberOfTradingDays ; i++)
{
for (b = 0 ; b < repeatB ; b++)
{

portrl = pdt[startPeriod1+i][] + pdtdf[startBack1+i+

(ranu(1,1)*scaleMultiplier)][];
for (j = 0 ; j < repeatDeltaP ; j++)
{
portrl += pdtdf[startBack1+i+
(ranu(1,1)*scaleMultiplier)][];
}
portrlv[b][0] = weight' * (portrl)';
}
portq = quantilec(portrlv, mq);
var[0][0] = ((pdt[startPeriod1+i][]) * weight) - portq[0][0];
realv[0][0] = ((pdt[startPeriod1+i][]) * weight) ((pdt[startPeriod1+i+horizon][]) * weight);
efficiency[0][0] = -realv[0][0] / var[0][0];
fprint(file, var[0][0],"\t",realv[0][0],"\t",efficiency[0][0],"\n");
}
}

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