The initial stage, video interview, 6 questions. 1. What are you passionate about? 2. Why AlphaSights? 3. Your most entrepreneurial experience 4. A time you failed. Forgot the other two.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at AlphaSights (Hong Kong)
Interview
After submitting the application with some personal information and a brief description, I received the video assessment interview in about 4 days. The whole process of the video assessment was pretty awkward. Although I have prepared the interview questions referred in the reviews of other interviewers, the situation make me feel not comfortable to some extent. The time is hard to control, I only had about 5 seconds to read the title of every question. I guess the important tips I will give for other interviewers is that prepare before hand but not make yourself look like a repeater. Relax....
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do AlphaSights do?
Other job you have applied?
What are you passionate about?
Your entrepreneurial experience and how you involved in?
Why you choose AlphaSights?
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at AlphaSights (New York, NY) in Mar 2015
Interview
I applied using the online portal and was later contacted for a Skype Interview. I was contacted the next day and invited to their New York offices for an on-site interview. There I had two separate interviews with two people each, one involved a case and the other one was composed mostly of behavioral questions.
The case methodology was first introduced in the Skype Interview and then during the first interview they coached me through what I should have in mind. I was later given a paper with 4 cases, from which I was to chose two. Then the interviewers left the room while I completed the cases. Finally I presented the cases and the interviewers gave me feedback.
I was also asked to complete a 10 question survey before my interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is one of your qualities that some describe as a weakness and how is it a strength?