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Analyst at Oliver Wyman
Posted Oct 8, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)
Tough case, not very receptive interviewers. Did not seem excited to be there. The case was tricky. Did not involve any business sense or quantitative skill review, rather was really a test in different ways to judge things. Overall not a fun experience
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Analyst at Oliver Wyman
Posted Sep 30, 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 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)
The interview was very laid back, worked with a partner and another analyst during two interviews to work towards solving a solution. Was helpful to lay out structure and then have the interviewer help to find the appropriate numbers. Make sure to check if your answer is reasonable. Try arriving at the problem in another way and comparing to your first answer.
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Analyst at Oliver Wyman
Posted Jun 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 Dec 2010 (took a day)
The interview consists of three-rounds. Two over the phone and one in-person. I did two phone-interview which consisted each of a case question. Both interviews were not supposed to go over 30 min, which they made clear at the beginning of the interview. I had a mixed experience. My first interviewer was really great; she was tough but also supportive if she noticed you were on to something. My second interview did not seem to care so much, and he was supposed to test a foreign language, which happens to be my native language. And I could speak it better than him and at the end it was only awkward.
What I really liked though about these interviews and the company is that they give you feedback right after the interview (wether you made it or not) and tell you your strengths as well as the areas where you can still improve. Nobody does this anymore. And I really liked that about them.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Analyst at Oliver Wyman
Posted Apr 27, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in New York, NY (took 1 week)
Online test with basic math problems. I only made it through about ten, and not even sure if I got all of them, but managed to get to next step. Interviewer talked extremely fast and didn't seem like they were actually interested in conducting a thorough interview- probably calling several candidates. I was thrown off- I was interviewing for pharma, and the first q asked was estimate the size of the office supply market. Only at the end was a brief easy business q in regards to it.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Analyst at Oliver Wyman
Posted Feb 25, 2011
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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 Oct 2010 in Chicago, IL (took 2 weeks)
Interviewed through on-campus recruiting. There was a computer-based quantitative test first. Then first round, two case interviews. Second round was 3 case interviews and 1 behavioral. The process was very well planned out. We were invited to networking events before interviews. The people at OW are super friendly and approachable, and I could really see myself enjoying working with them.
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I didn't negotiate, I thought the offer was quite generous
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Analyst at Oliver Wyman
Posted Feb 21, 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 Oct 2010 in Al Hajarayn (United Arab Emirates) (took 2 weeks)
The application process consisted of an online IQ/Math test and then two phone interviews and finally an in-office with Dubai partners held in Boston. The first phone interview was quite simple and easy. Started with basic questions about me and my education for about 2-3 mins and then went on to a case, which wasn't too hard, the interviewer was very nice and friendly and guided me through the whole interview and told me right away that I had passed to the second phone interview round and asked me if I had any questions for them. The second phone interview was exactly the same format, however this time around the interviewer was not friendly at all, he called me about 20 minutes later than the scheduled time. He tried to make the interview very hard but his way of doing that was by constantly interrupting me and pushing me off track rather than giving me a more difficult case.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Analyst at Oliver Wyman
Posted Feb 9, 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 Oct 2010 in Boston, MA (took a day)
Interviewed with 2 senior consultants (30 min each), one behavior and one case. The behavioral component consisted of fairly standard quesitons -- why OW, tell me about a time you had difficulty working within a team, what's your proudest accomplishment, etc. The case tripped me up -- it was a fairly standard expectation problem if I recall correctly, but definitely a different flavor of case from McKinsey, Bain, BCG, & co. I got the impression that they expect their candidates to be up to snuff with their probability, so make sure you brush up beforehand. In general firm culture seemed a bit stiff, but both interviewers were fairly friendly and turn around time was reasonable.
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Analyst at Oliver Wyman
Posted Jan 11, 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 Nov 2010 (took 2 weeks)
Overall, efficient recruiting process. I applied online and was invited to a math test. Test was difficult - there were 30 questions and I answered around 12. That was enough to get through to first round. First round consisted of two phone interviews. Cases were average difficulty - increasing profit/sales for consumer goods products. Lots of number crunching followed by some creative thinking. Both interviewers gave feedback the same day and were quite helpful!
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Analyst at Oliver Wyman
Posted Nov 16, 2010
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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 Sep 2010 (took 2 weeks)
First you go through a math test. Don't answer all questions.
Next, Phone interview with case study.
Next Phone interview with more senior level member, much more critical to answers
Next, in Person interview
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Analyst at Oliver Wyman
Posted Nov 14, 2010
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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 Boston, MA (took 1 week)
One online test first, 30 numeric questions in 30 min. Almost no way to finish all of them and should use skip button wisely. I finished 15 questions and got offered a phone case interview. It took 30 min and I was interviewed by a partner specializing in pharmaceutical industry. Talked about a case of drug development for a rare disease and he asked me to estimate the market size.
The key is in a phone case interview, you should speak out your rationale and steps to solve the case in first place, otherwise the interviewer wouldn't tell your structured thinking ability. This is very unlike in person interviews, in which you could draw a structure and the interviewer could see it. And the other key component of my interview is calculation. Lots of numbers in the equation so be prepared and patient.
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