What’s the difference in prep work for a private equity vs private credit interview?

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PE will probably want to dig in more on growth opportunities and upside while credit will be mostly focused on risk mitigation. Otherwise the actual exercises they might have you do for interviews are pretty similar (paper lbo, general conversations about past deals you've worked on, how you would go about modeling certain things, etc)

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