Corporate Insight Interview Questions
& Process

Applied online and had a first 30-minute chat. Then, a week later, I got a 2-hour writing test where I had to compare two web pages and write a report using a writing sample they gave. After that, I had a 3-hour back-to-back interview in-person with four different people, which felt super long and repetitive. They just went through a list of questions, making it feel really formal and not very conversational. A week after that, I met with another team member for 30 minutes. Then they did reference and background checks, followed by a final 30-minute interview with a VP about two weeks later. The whole thing took about 2 months, which felt way too long and drawn out for an entry-level gig. Honestly, meeting seven people plus doing an exercise seemed unnecessary.

This was a terrible and time-consuming interview process. The first stage was a brief 15-minute HR call which went well. Then, I moved on to a straightforward writing assessment. The third stage, however, was quite excessive. For an entry-level role focused on monitoring website changes, which requires minimal skill, I had to go through three consecutive interviews totaling nearly three hours. Each interviewer asked very similar questions about my background and behavioral aspects. It felt redundant to cover the same topics repeatedly. Although I didn't get the job, it's puzzling why three interviews with identical question types were deemed necessary when one would have sufficed.

I applied online and had an initial phone call. Then I was invited for an in-person interview a week or two later. During that interview, I spoke with a senior associate and a director, both of whom were very nice. After that, I completed a writing assignment in the office before leaving. The assignment involved analyzing a financial company's website and evaluating it from a user's perspective. Following that, I had another in-person interview where I met with three people: two junior senior associates and a VP. The overall interview experience was quite relaxed; most discussions were informal and didn't seem to have strict right or wrong answers. However, they did tend to ask similar questions, and repeating the same responses repeatedly felt a bit repetitive. They were very respectful regarding scheduling and appeared to be well-organized.

I sent in my application online, and the whole process spanned a bit over a month. It started with an HR chat, then I had an unpaid writing assignment (unlike a recent interview with a non-profit that actually paid me for theirs), followed by about two hours of interviews at their office. The in-person part involved four separate 30-minute chats with different team members. Since these were individual meetings, I ended up repeating myself a lot, having to answer the same questions and give my 'tell me about yourself' intro multiple times. They sent a rejection email about a week later, and my follow-up emails asking for feedback went unanswered.