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Updated May 26, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Associate Consultant at ZS Associates
Posted Jun 28, 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 May 2011 in Evanston, IL (took 6+ weeks)
First two rounds were phone call. One was behavioral type questions like "Tell me a about time when you felt caught between conflicting objectives", Go over Resume, Why ZS etc. The second one was data crunching. I was given a tables, charts with some information as asked questions on that. Brush up your calculating skills.
Final round was in the ZS office- 1 past project experience with a principal where I had explain my PhD thesis to him. Second was behavioral with a Principal. Finally they gave me a lot of material about a company and asked me to prepare a presentation with a group advising the company based on the information provided. The panel was fair and easy on me. It was a little intimidating in the begining, but just manage your time well and be organized in your approach.
-Very friendly people overall and pleasant experience
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Decent offer, not outstanding but very little to no negotitation
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Personality Test.
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Business Analyst at ZS Associates
Posted Jun 1, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 (took 4 weeks)
I was first invited to do an test online. The test is run by Cubiks online, it's composed of a numerical part and a verbal part. You can practice online before and take the test whenever you are ready, but I found the practice tests easier than the real thing, and thus misleading. You need to go quickly through the questions, so make sure to practice.
Shortly after taking the test, I was called on my cellphone by the recruiter. The first interview that was arrange was later canceled because of a lack of interviewer. I then had to mail the HR to remind her of arranging a new interview.
First round interview was composed of a behavioral interview with a manager and a case study with a consultant.
I was invited for the second round one day later.
Everyone was very friendly and helpful. The office culture is casual, most people don't wear suits.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Associate at ZS Associates
Posted May 27, 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 Nov 2009 in New Delhi (India) (took 5 days)
-3 rounds of in office interview
1. Case Study - Need to solve real time problem with a structure problem solving
2.Behaviorial Interview - HR Fit kind of interview
3.Prinicipal Interview
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Associate Consultant at ZS Associates
Posted May 26, 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 Apr 2011 (took 2 days)
very flexible wrt interview timing.
First round was one 1:1 interview, a bit of fit and a small OR-type case
Second round a few weeks later started with them asking for background info you would expect at the offer stage (very odd).
Then there was one session where an existing employee explained a project, followed by 3 interviews:
a written case with subsequent presentation in front of 2 interviewers, then two 1:1 with partners, one fit-focussed, one case-focussed.
Nice people overall, but make sure you click with the senior partner (i.e., hiring manager) ;-)
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.
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Business Associate at ZS Associates
Posted Apr 27, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took 3 weeks)
I had two phone interviews, one was for case study test and the other behavioral test. I passed those, but they forgot to call me to let me know until about 2-3 weeks later. Also, for the first phone interview, they called me one hour later than the appointment time, and caused me inconvenience. I was asked to come in for face to face 4 hour interview. They told me that they already had 7 people interviewing face to face in the past few months and failed 6 people already, and that they will place a lot of decision making based on the quantitative analytical test. I think I did well all the way until that 30 min. portion of the quantitative test. It was a very easy question, simple revenue and profit question, but when the interviewer gave me the test, she said "all the information you need is in that paper to solve this question, so you don't need any more info" I interpreted that as "don't ask question and try to solve it yourself" and in that paper, it was not clear if the profit was for company A or company B, and how the question was asked, I assumed it was for A, and which was wrong. She told me in the middle of the interview that I'm doing it wrong, and I asked her which company's profit this is, and she looked at me like I am stupid and talked to me like it was an obvious thing. Because I spent too much time calculating it wrong, I ran out of that part of interview time and couldn't finish the test. But, it was a very easy question, so others don't worry. But, I do think it was a matter of how they ask you question. It is very unclear and confusing how they pose that quantitative question. People were all snobby there too. I didn't like the people. I told that girl who gave me quantitative question, that I know I did bad on that test because I misunderstood the question at first, so if I could have another chance to do it again, she just quickly packed her stuff and said, "oh, don't worry about it. We just needed to see your thinking process" and left in a hurry. I think they are looking for anything to judge you by to fail you because they get so many applicants. They are not looking for what you are good at, but what to fail you for.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Business Associate at ZS Associates
Posted Apr 3, 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 Mar 2011 in Philadelphia, PA (took 2 weeks)
The first round interview consisted of a 30 min case study and a 30 min behavioral interview. They asked relatively standard questions. The case study involved profit maximization as well as being able to interpret graphs and charts. The case study involves some solving of numbers which was a bit difficult seeing that you are unable to use a calculator.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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OR Associate at ZS Associates
Posted Mar 11, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took 3 weeks)
The first round interview consisted of a phone screening with an HR representative. The second round consisted of 2 interviews, one with an OR associate and another with a manager. One of the interviews was behavioral and the second was a case interview. The final round interview consisted of 2 case interviews and 1 behavioral interview. The cases were with an OR associate and a Manager, and the behavioral interview was with a principal.
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Analyst at ZS Associates
Posted Mar 9, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
A case was given and had to interactively solve it.
The company is more involved in the marketing side of the consulting business
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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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Operations Research Intern at ZS Associates
Posted Mar 1, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Los Angeles, CA (took 2 weeks)
On campus interview
1. 30 mins behavioral
2. 30 mins case
behavioral was based on resume
case was based on a pharmeceuticals case about distributing sales people. some numbers involved, but it was fairly easy
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Business Associate at ZS Associates
Posted Feb 26, 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 a day)
30min behavior interview + 30min case interview
behavior part is easy, they are all basic questions.
case interview is the same that posted before about 200reps and 300 territories.
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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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