Forrester Research Interview Questions & Reviews in Boston, MA Area

Interview Details – Phone screening interview with recruiter. Phone interview with a supervisor. In-person interview with 4 managers/supervisors in that department

Interview Details – I applied online through the corporate website, and about a week later the recruiter emailed me in regards to a phone interview. The interview was scheduled for a Friday afternoon and lasted about 30 minutes. She was very kind, open, and engaging. At the end of the interview, she thought it would be a good idea to speak with the hiring manger which was scheduled for the following Tuesday. The hiring manager again was very nice, although she was about 15 mins late for the call. She had a very direct approach in asking questions, she also fed off the responses I provided.

Interview Details – I had 7-8 interviews and had to present

Negotiation Details – They offer you a salary, and usually it's take it or leave it. Not a lot of room to negotiate.

Interview Details – Phone Interview

Interview Details – The interview process is pretty standard, internal and external.

If you are external, they will do the phone screening process / skills tests / background check.

You might have another phone call with the recruiter after but more often than not they call you in for the in person interview.
The in person interview consists of 4 to 6, back to back, 30 minute interviews with relevant team members/management.

In general, they will all ask similar questions, with a few of their own to spice it up. Assuming you make it through that interview process, they may have you do a small sales presentation. Nothing to get nervous over, it's meant to see your raw speaking skills.

Negotiation Details – They were pretty set on the salary. I didn't negotiate much.

Interview Details – This is a company with a Chief People Officer. About 40 percent of new hires are employee referrals. Recruiters have terrific backgrounds and are very knowledgeable about various roles. The first round of in-person interviews is a series of conversations with people from the function (in this case sales). The second round included a simulated account review and presentation to a client.

Negotiation Details – Like buying a Saturn.

Interview Details – I found the hiring process to be fairly exhaustive for an entry-level position - I went through a phone screen with an HR person, then an additional half-hour screening with the hiring manager, then a 2.5-hour in-person interview with members of the hiring team. I was declined for the first position I interviewed for but HR recommended a different position for me, and I went through the whole process all over again - altogether it took 3 months between first interview and my start date.

Negotiation Details – As it was an entry-level position, negotiation was almost non-existent. Even before we got to the offer phase, the HR rep was very straightforward - "this is the starting salary and it's non-negotiable."

Interview Details – First, I sent in a resume from an open job posting that was pointed out to me by an alumni acquaintance.Within about a week, I received an email message from an HR representative to schedule a phone interview. Because of the 4th of July, we had to put off the phone interview until the next week, the day after the holiday. At a pre-arranged day and time, the HR rep called me and we spoke for about a half hour. There was a 3-hour time difference between us since I was on the West Coast and she was on the East Coast.

This was a screening interview which, later on, proved to be a courtesy interview. Maybe to fulfill a statistic that the company follows up on most/all applicants? Not sure, but I found out at the end of the interview that the company had already found a candidate and was in the final round of interviewing that person, so this interview seemed to fulfill a requirement.

Interview Details – Submitted my application online and had a phone interview set up five business days later. The phone interview occurred roughly two weeks after I'd submitted my application and it was pretty standard: resume questions and personal experiences. The interviewer was friendly and the conversation pretty enjoyable. However, he did tell me near the end that this position would not reimburse candidate travel. Given that I was about a thousand miles away, I suggested setting up a skype interview in lieu of an in-person one. He seemed amenable to that but stated that the person making the decision would be the hiring manager, who never wrote me back (although a different position I interviewed for with Forrester was ok with a skype interview, so apparently it depends on the manager).