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Updated Feb 8, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Business Development Specialist at Corporate Executive Board
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Chicago, IL (took a day)
Asked about my background. Why sales? Difference between them and a typical consulting firm. Then I was asked to answer a series of behavioral interview questions and how I would respond to the questions. The recruiters were nice and however the feedback I got was generic we are moving on from you.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Research Consultant at Corporate Executive Board
Posted Jan 15, 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 Jun 2011 in Arlington, VA (took a day)
I was contacted by a recruiter in Sept 2011 for a phone interview. I thought the position sounded very interesting, so I agreed to take an online test. The assessment took about an hour and consisted of patterns recognition presumably to test analytical capacity. Once I completed this I was contacted again and asked to come in for an interview. I agreed and was looking forward to learning about the position, company, and people. I was disappointed when I discovered almost nothing about the position or exactly what I would be doing. I didn't get the impression that I'd enjoy working with or learn much from any of the managers, except for perhaps one. I got the impression that the corporate culture was high-stress and that they valued performance and not training or developing their workers. This did not seem to be a place to learn, grow and advance whatsoever. In the end it was my fault for not having done the research sufficiently to know this would be a miserable place to work. So I took half a day from work for interviews lasting more than three hours, not to mention the test and back and forth with recruiters. In the end, I found it was enormously rude [and also very telling of their treatment of workers!] to request me to spend time taking a test and interview without ever following up. Naturally, I was disappointed that the recruiters didn't keep their word to be in touch because I was so looking forward to letting them know I would never work for an organization such as theirs.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Sales Associate at Corporate Executive Board
Posted Jan 9, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)
generally basic phone interview. It consisted of four questions which are; About myself, why apply this company, why do I think I fit this role, How will I motivate myself when I struggle.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Account Coordinator at Corporate Executive Board
Posted Jan 9, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Arlington, VA (took 2 weeks)
The intial phone interview went well with the recruiter. When I went in for an in-person interview, it felt very disorganized. I had to wait at the front desk for about 30 minutes because they had either forgot I was coming or were really busy. The interview process was the normal behavior questions. I was interviewed by two people whom, took turns asking me questions. I tried to be professional but friendly and the whole time I felt like they were being a little too "chill" during the process. Maybe it was a tactic of theirs to continuely distrupt me and try to take me off track. I'm not sure, but I was definitely in for a surprise when I went into the interview.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Sales Executive at Corporate Executive Board
Posted Jan 3, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Arlington, VA (took 1 week)
CEB uses a behavioral model for the interviewing questions. So rather than, "what are your strengths & weaknesses?" they ask you to describe certain situations, i.e. "Describe a time when you had a difficult customer who said no at first, but you found a way to convince him to buy."
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Account Administrative at Corporate Executive Board
Posted Dec 28, 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 Dec 2011 (took 2 months)
The phone interview involved various questions about my past employment history and my skill set. I was also asked situational questions to see how I would react under pressure. The online assessments were fairly simple, but somewhat time consuming. The panel interview was an hour long and was similar to the phone interview, but more targeted on why I was interested in working for CEB.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Strategic Research Consultant at Corporate Executive Board
Posted Nov 29, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Arlington, VA (took 6 weeks)
After applying for the position I was e-mailed to schedule a phone interview. That phone interview was postponed 2 weeks. After a successful phone interview, I was asked to take the online assessment, which was a patterns test (you cannot study in advance). Then I was asked to come in for 2 behavioral interviews and one case interview. The behavioral interviews were standard and the case was relatively easy compared to other consulting firms (no math!). Unfortunately, I was not given an offer.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Strategic Research Consultant at Corporate Executive Board
Posted Nov 23, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 (took a day)
Phone interview. General behavioral question. It was for a research position, and they wanted to know about my background in research, specific examples about how I tackled a research topic, etc.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Entry-Level Consultant/Researcher at Corporate Executive Board
Posted Nov 11, 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 Nov 2011 in Boston, MA (took a day)
Applied through On-campus recruiting. They are very upfront about instructions: 2 online assessments (one behavioral and other almost like an IQ test), 2 one hour interviews one being a case and other the behavioral. My interview turned out mostly behavioral with a short 30 minute case. They are going to prob and you in detail examples of when you - had to deal with a teammate, boss, how you persuaded a group, how you deal with stress etc etc. Be clear about what you want to present with these stories, don't just pick examples that fit, but examples that show something about you
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Strategic Research Consultant at Corporate Executive Board
Posted Nov 8, 2011
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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 Oct 2011 in Arlington, VA (took 3 months)
The people, office, and work culture of the Corporate Executive Board seemed all very positive. The interview process did take a long time and it took a while for them to get back with me after the interview. Unfortunately, I was not offered a position.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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