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Updated Jan 11, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Associate at Acquity Group
Posted Jan 11, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Irvine, CA (took a day)
Going over resume, and ask questions about personality, school projects...
The last question involves with a case study: "Given 7 seven different website about furniture, how do you combine them into one."
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Manager at Acquity Group
Posted Dec 2, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Chicago, IL (took 4 weeks)
I was contacted by a recruiter and we chatted about my current situation, goals, skills, etc. After that, a phone-based technical interview was set up with someone in the same position I was applying for. That interview was about 30 min long and concentrated more on my "working" knowledge and projects rather than "book" knowledge of technologies. The next step was an on-site interview in the Chicago office where I met with 2 teams of 2, plus one of the executives. The first team concentrated on the technical side of the job, again focusing on the projects I had done and experience with certain technologies. The second team concentrated more on my soft skills, and culture-fit. The meeting with the executive was a combination of technical and culture, but he focused more on what I was looking for in a job and company. Very thorough interview process, but it helped me find out more about them, too.
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They have salary bands depending on the level and position that you are applying for. There was some room for negotiation, but not much. My only recommendation is do your homework on what you're worth and what others are getting for the same position.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Associate at Acquity Group
Posted Nov 25, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Chicago, IL (took 3 days)
AG contacted me to interview with them. Your first round is a case study as they want to see if you are able to comprehend how a consulting company works/thinks. If you are an engineer and use the internet, this should not be a problem.
Your second round interview consists of another case study, a behavioral, another behavioral but based on leadership, a chat with a new guy, and food with the guys up top. These are all rather simple but be prepared to offer a good reason of "why Acquity Group?". I was asked this in all 5 parts of the second round.
The tour showed 2 floors inside the Citi Group building in downtown chicago with the first looking like a cubical maze from office space and the second being a much smoother environment with all the cubical walls knocked down. Glancing around, it seems that there weren't too many people occupying these cubicals. I assume this is due to travel.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior ECommerce Analyst at Acquity Group
Posted Nov 10, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Irvine, CA (took 2 weeks)
I applied on the company's site, and received an email from their recruiter a couple of days later. We setup a short phone call, which ended up being a 40 minute call. Questions were typical interview questions, with questions about my background, experience, and top 3 things that were important to me.
Next, I was asked to have a phone interview with a Project Manager. This phone interview was extremely detailed about the position and asked about my projects and experience, and knowledge set. I was weak in eCommerce industry knowledge, but Interwoven was very important to them as well. I was told they needed to decide that if I could go further.
A few days later, I got a very happy response from their recruiter telling me I made it to the office interview. This was a 3 hours and in-depth, and consisted of the following:
- 60 minutes with 2 Functional Project Managers
- 60 minutes with a Technical Business Analyst/Engineer
- 60 minutes with an Engagement Manager
- 15 minute Written Assessment
Parking was validated, which was a good thing because otherwise it might have been $18 out of pocket.
The interview with the 2 Functional Project Managers was very psychological in nature. One was nice, and the other was aggressive. They asked questions about projects I did, and seemed to get frustrated by my talk of PMI and Six Sigma processes. In the earlier phone interviews, they asked about my PMI and Six Sigma knowledge, and talked about how this was used every day at their office. So I thought it was curious that these PM's knew nothing about this stuff and got very hostile when I talked about it.
The interview with the Technical Business Analyst was nice at first, but became an interrogation for most of the hour.
I think in my career, I've never been harshly interviewed like this....so beware. This guy was determined to prove the skills in my resume were pure fiction. Fortunately, I was solid on my answers. But he was arrogant and really had something against "self-taught" web developers like myself. I had lots of hands-on experience designing advanced websites and a portfolio of nearly a hundred sites to prove it, but no CS degree like himself. I did research this guy before the interview, and other than his top shelf CS degree, he didn't have much experience at all....which I thought was curious.
At the end of this 1 hour interrogation, he asked if I had any questions. I asked about his background (although I already knew it), and he abruptly answered "I work here, what else?" I also asked what he liked about his job with this company, and he said "we're done".
The 15 minute written assessment was simply an essay question asking "how will technology affect you in the next 5 years". The test is administered on a laptop. The essay they are expecting is short, but it appears they are looking for a page, well-thought out, well written.
Because walking out in the middle of an interview is really tacky these days, I simply wrote a single paragraph about my impression of Steve Job's impact on technology. Kind of weak for me since I've authored blogs, but the interview was done for me after 2 hours of intense interrogation.
The final interview was with an Engagement Manager. He was the most pleasant out of the group, but he spent the course of the interview describing how much better his company was compared to mine. I got some positive feedback from that one, but wasn't very enthusiastic about the position after all of this.
Interviewing for this position made me want to look elsewhere for a better one, at a better paying organization. I don't think I have ever, during the course of an interview, been talked out of a job by the conduct of the employees themselves. Definitely unprofessional and childish, if you ask me.
I can understand complicated interview experiences like Microsoft, Google, and Capital Group. But this one really was a world apart. Beware and be prepared!
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Associate at Acquity Group
Posted Oct 31, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Meridian, ID (took a day)
I had 5 interviews. One was a written interview on the topic "How will technology impact you after 5 years?". I then had a behavioral interview and a case study interview. The topic for case study was "Mary wants to start a business and wants to do e-commerce but she is not able to decide on ebay or amazon or yahoo. How will you approach this problem?" The other 2 interviews were similar to behavioral. Nothing technical.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Consultant at Acquity Group
Posted Oct 12, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Chicago, IL (took a day)
I got the interview through my career center at school. I gave a little bit of background about myself and then was given two quick case interviews that asked me how I would approach two different situations concerning technology. I did not receive a second round and believe it was because they were looking for someone with a more technical background.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Manager at Acquity Group
Posted May 1, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 3 weeks)
One HR Interview, followed by an interview with Engagement Manager and then in person interview with three people. In person interview had a written test, where one is given 15 minutes to write on a topic. Mine was, where technology will be in 5 years down the line. The inperson interviewers were - Portfolio Director, Engagement Manager and a Manager. They were each looking into different aspects at my skill sets.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Manager at Acquity Group
Posted Mar 21, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Chicago, IL (took a day)
I met with managers, senior execs, and subordinates or peers during the interview process. Questions on my resume and background, nothing too unusual, all pretty standard stuff. They expect you to know the technology on your resume, bring your "A" game, if you say it, you better be able to back it up, you will get called out on it if you try and fudge anything whatsover. The whole company is filled with really smart, bright people, and the interviews can be long and painful, which they then meet as a team or committee to discuss each candidate in depth, internally. The most unusual part of the interview process is that they provide you with a blank laptop and you are asked to write a short essay, the topic was something along the lines of "What role will technology play in the future?" or "What does technology mean to me?". They are asking more because they want to see that you can formulate thoughts and express them well in writing, rather than what technical knowledge you are able to write down.
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Negotiation Details
They didn't really negotiate on the salary, but I was able to ask for 3 weeks of vacation rather than 2 and got it. The interview was the fastest I've ever had, we went from a phone screen with a recruiter, a long / onsite one day interview, and an offer a few days later.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Associate at Acquity Group
Posted Feb 9, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Chicago, IL (took a day)
Started off as a typical interview. I was then given the choice of about 6 different case studies to choose from. I only had to answer one. The case study was easy enough, although because I was nervous I missed an important point. They are really big on knowing a lot of information about the company before the interview.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Applications Architect at Acquity Group
Posted Feb 3, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Chicago, IL (took 3 weeks)
Contacted by internal recruiter and after discussion he recommended being presented for the position. Standard procedure is to submit to a Brainbench exam - which IMO is a complete waste of time. A real turn off unless you are serious.
After passing that, I had a 1 on 1 phone screen with a senior developer to discuss technical aspects of the job. So far so good. Then scheduled a half-day series of interviews with architects, engagement managers, business analysts and EVP. A long half-day, but nice guys and good experience.
They passed on me - I said that I had a max of 50% travel - they might require more than that. Also they expected the architects to do a lot of development work as required. That's reasonable but no exactly what I wanted.
Long process, but apart from the Brainbench nonsense an OK experience.
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