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Updated Mar 18, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Summer Analyst at Cornerstone Research
Posted Mar 18, 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 Feb 2012 in Boston, MA (took a day)
They asked some behavioral questions mostly about my past internship and projects.
Then, they performed an intellectual property case study by sending graphs via email before phone interview.
But the recruiter was friendly
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Summer Analyst at Cornerstone Research
Posted Feb 26, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
I got the interview through the career center. Consisted of a series of 1:1 interviews.
Everything went pretty smoothly. I knew I was on the right track with the case interviews because the interviewer was giving me positive feedback (e.g. "That's exactly right" or "Good suggestion, that's what we actually did when we were working on this case").
Overall, it was a great experience.
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Summer Analyst at Cornerstone Research
Posted Jan 31, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took 1 week)
I applied through my university and was contacted less than a week later for an interview the following week. The interview was a short, 30-minute one. It was 1:1, and he began by asking me about things on my resume (past work experience). Then he gave me the case, which was a lot more finance-oriented than I was expecting. I think prior knowledge of finance would have helped tremendously. My interviewer also kept on pushing me by saying, "And...?" after I had laid out my structure and my answers, which got me easily flustered since I didn't have anything more to say. I was notified a week later about the result of my interview.
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Summer Analyst at Cornerstone Research
Posted Jun 20, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 weeks)
First round was just one 1:1 interview with an associate. Final round was 5 1:1 interviews with analysts and senior management, and lunch with two analysts. Standard format: questions of fit followed by a case question. No need to worry about calculating damages.
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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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Summer Analyst at Cornerstone Research
Posted Mar 5, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Los Angeles, CA (took a day)
There were two 30 minutes phone interviews with a 5 minute break in between. The first 10 mins of each interview as personal and resume related questions, the next 15 mins was a short case interview question, and the last 5 minutes was reserved for you to ask them questions.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Summer Analyst at Cornerstone Research
Posted Feb 22, 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 Feb 2011 in Menlo Park, CA (took 2 weeks)
Got the Interview from on campus recruiting. Had no experience with Economic Consulting. Actually, I was very likely the only non-economics major in their final round. Had a total of 6 case interviews for the 2 rounds, 2 for the first round and the other 4 for the second round. All cases are from different industries ranging from security damage to antitrust to IP..... Didn't really prepare in terms of the types of the cases since I was only preparing for strategy/management consulting case interviews previously. However, still somehow managed to get through the interview and was placed in their waiting list, after one week of waiting, was extended an offer.
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Summer Analyst at Cornerstone Research
Posted Feb 21, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Menlo Park, CA (took 2 weeks)
First round consists of two different thirty minute interviews. First 5 or 10 minutes is behavioral and the rest is case questions. Next round is 3 or 4 30 minutes interviews with case questions. Case questions are very interactive and geared towards problem-solving.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Summer Analyst at Cornerstone Research
Posted Feb 17, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took 1 week)
I applied online and through my university's recruiting system with my resume, cover letter, and transcript. I had an on-campus interview with two back-to-back 30-minute case interviews. The interviewer will spend about 5-10 minutes asking you about your resume, and then dive into the case. Frameworks don't really apply to these cases, because the interviewer will ask you the questions they want you to answer. I got asked to calculate damages for two potential lawsuits. Second round interviews are the same format, but with 6 back-to-back case interviews - more of an endurance test. Be prepared to be there for 3.5 hours.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Summer Analyst at Cornerstone Research
Posted Jul 23, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Boston, MA (took a day)
Very secretive interview process. All other consulting firms said before the interview that they were going to do a case study, but Cornerstone didn't say a word--its as if they didn't want us to prepare. Basically no communication before the interview.
There was a case study, regression questions were asked, it went pretty bad for me.
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Summer Analyst at Cornerstone Research
Posted Mar 3, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Boston, MA (took 2 days)
The first round is a case-interview while the office visit consisted of 5 back-to-back case interviews
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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