Video interview, Skype interview, Case study, Partner interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
VIDEO
1) what does alphasights do in your words?
2) How do you measure success
3) who do you look unto
4) what other career opportunities have you looked at?
WRITTEN
1) A time you made a commercial impact (fundraiser etc)
2) A time where you set yourself a goal and what you have done to achieve it
3) Something you are passionate about (non-academic, non professional) and what you have done to achieve it
4) Where do you expect to be in the next 5 years and where does alphasights come in to the picture
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at AlphaSights in Jan 2014
Interview
Pass through the first stage (200 word summary of why you want to work for AlphaSights), progressed onto the first interview stage. This interview was recorded online and lasted around 15 min. There is an opportunity to set up the camera and answer a practice question, then watch a recording of yourself. There is also an opportunity to re-record the actual interview for the second time.
As others noted, this is not the most pleasant process, since one is self-conscious when talking into a camera as opposed to another human being, but the questions were nothing out of the ordinary (e.g. why do you want to work for us? what do we do?)