I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at AlphaSights (London, England) in Sept 2017
Interview
1st stage interview was a face to face 50mins. what do you know about us? how do we make money? how do you think we do our research? what do you expect the day 2 day work to be like? who are our competitors? how are we different? what else have you applied for?
Poor experience, rude interviewer. Would not recommend. Call centre environment. Would like to have seen them trying to get to know me better rather than making an instance judgement
I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at AlphaSights
Interview
Applied through university, got called for phone interview with HR within a week or so. HR interview was typical - walk me through resume, challenges, how to lead a team and so on. Once this round was cleared, scheduled a follow up interview with a more senior person (a VP) for another phone interview. Overall this interview was a short, pointless one. The questions were hardly anything - more like why MBA? why this school?.. I thought I was done with these questions when I was going through school admission! For my questions on the role, internship projects, potential full time role etc., answers were very vague - I got the feeling they did not have any clear vision for the internship.
The interviewer seemed disinterested and wrapped up a half hour interview in less than 20 mins. Got a mail within a week saying they are not proceeding further. Overall the only thing impressive was the speed of response from HR.