Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en ZS Associates (Boston, MA) en may 2015
Entrevista
Recruiter reached out on LinkedIn. First round consisted of 30 minute phone behavioral followed by a 30 minute phone/WebEx case. A couple days later invited to schedule in-person interview at nearest office. In-person was three hours of consecutive interviews. Behavioral, unstructured case relating to a current business problem and then a case where they put you in a room with a laptop and a number of printed documents and ask you to identify the problem, create a powerpoint and present the powerpoint to a panel acting as clients. HR is great at walking you through what to expect before hand and then what went great and not so great after each round of interviews. Some major metrics are: confidence, analytics, creativity, motivation, client management, team management
Preguntas de entrevista [2]
Pregunta 1
First round behavioral questions were mostly focused on management style (dealing with difficult subordinates, mentoring, etc). The interviewer presented a hypothetical situation then asked for an example from my experience that could relate to solving that situation.
First round case was choosing which market to play in for a pharma product. I have no pharma background, but didn't find it difficult. Interviewer shows you slides with charts and graphs then asks you to calculate the market size of different possible markets given that the population is 300M, x% suffer from symptoms, y% seek medical attention, etc.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en ZS Associates
Entrevista
4 rounds. Starting with phone screen by recruiter, then a technical phone screen and then a final onsite interview with several people. The process was fair and all the interviewers were super engaging.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
What will you do if a teammate is not working up to his/her standard?
Solicité el puesto a través de la escuela superior o la universidad. El proceso duró 2 días. Acudí a una entrevista en ZS Associates (Gurgaon, Haryana) en ene 2017
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They will give you case study, which will have lot of data and you have to solve..try to read all questions and hve atleast approach how will you move ahead in this question. Listen carefully what interviewer wants to know .
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Pregunta 1
What market campaign will you use to promote your product?
Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en ZS Associates
Entrevista
While I was impressed with the candor and the overall impression from the onset, the interviews were annoyingly difficult. I found it hard to convince myself why I'd want to be apart of a shop focused on life sciences, an hour away from LA mainland, and not highly ranked for Strategy - other than above average pay.
To be candid: They're not in LA, they're in Thousand Oaks, which is basically an hour away from the Westside. Not sure anyone wants to commute that much to be in an office all week and spend 10 hrs a week in commuting talking about life science.
Tedious "by the book" questions make me feel like I was interviewing a dinosaur shop. "Tell me a time when the client delivered work was unsuccessful... (YAWN). C'mon it's 2016 - throw away the scripts - let's try harder and get to the core of your interviewer. I think the questions and the formal process spoke volumes about the organization (aka slow-moving, not progressive, and not nimble enough to make it in this competitive and crowded market of consulting firms).
They're a life sciences shop, 90% of their business is in pharma and providers, so you need to have at least a mild desire to be in that field if you want to work w those clients day-in and day-out. I know I didn't.
They claim they're analytically driven, but it doesn't come across they have the technology capabilities to match their so-called analytical prowess. They seem to prefer the types who want to spend weeks practicing cases, and can remember models of oratory vomit, just to look smart.
The consultants I spoke to were OK. They don't come across as the big picture thinkers that I like to associate with - more in the weeds and bright kind of guys that have a hard time collaborating with people. The second consultant conducting the case was too cold and callous IMO, and did not seem to want to be interviewing anyone.