AlphaSights Summer Associate interview questions

If you want a respectful and professional interview process, look elsewhere. This is long, but there's valuable insights I want to share based on my experience. I would not recommend interviewing here. It's a huge waste of time and I found the company to be very unprofessional. The process is three rounds. First I talked with a recruiter, and then with a manager where I was asked to present a case study I prepared earlier that week. During the second round, I was presented another similar case and asked to provide an analysis on the spot. The manager noted that my analysis was spot on. After the second round I got a very warm email asking me to return for the third and final round, which is with a VP. In this email I was told that "we were really impressed with your performance in the second round interview" The third round went well, but the VP seemed to be a little distracted. However, at the end he seemed more engaged and enthusiastically let me know the process for next steps. A few days later I received a generic rejection email, asking that I don't request feedback due to the volume of applicants. I think that would be a fair email to send if I got rejected after the first round, but definitely not appropriate after the final round. I sent the recruiter who I was working with a message, and she responded with the same generic email, basically stating that its not the Alphasights policy to provide individual feedback. I should also note that my interviewers LinkedIn with me after each interview round. Again, really weird to send a generic rejection when I now have three employees in my network. Overall, I feel super mislead and wasted a ton of time during midterms week to complete this process. It's frustrating that I wasn't able to take any learnings from the experience, because of their "no feedback policy". The whole thing seemed shady and fake. I hadn't considered it before, but I've started to wonder if the case studies we're asked to complete are being used by Alphasights teams to generate leads for their projects. The manager I spoke to in round 2 did allude to the fact that the cases could be based off an actual clients. Anyways, I did not find the interview process to be difficult, just frustrating. If you want to aggressively cold call all summer long maybe its worth it, otherwise I would recommend focusing on jobs that will build your hard skills and have better exit opportunities.

One one one interview with the manager of the specific branch they are recruiting you for. They place you into a team they think you would be a good fit for. The interview had three parts: going over the case they sent you ahead of time, a second case that they give you on the spot in which you describe your though process, and a role play expert/associate phone call.