TNTP Analyst Interview Questions
& Process

After sending in my resume and cover letter, I had a phone screen, then a hiring exercise that took a significant amount of time. The last step was a final interview. All in all, from applying to getting an offer took about two months, which was pretty reasonable.

The whole interview thing was a few weeks long, with each chat about a week apart. It started with HR reaching out by email to get things rolling. HR was nice and all, but I kept getting handed off to different people, which felt kinda weird and not personal. First up was this analysis project using old data from like 2007. I got two sets: a survey and a bigger one about teachers staying or leaving the district. They asked basic stuff like pulling and filtering data, plus some trickier questions where I had to show my work and say why I did it that way. A big part was writing a one-page memo to explain what I found in simple words. It was pretty much what I do every day, but it ate up a good chunk of my free time, so keep track of how long it takes you. My first phone interview was all about that project, mostly asking about my methods – how I'd approach things, how I actually did them. They also dug into my past research projects at work. The interviewer, who clearly knew their quant research stuff, really drilled down on my methodology. It felt like rapid-fire questions, and they weren't super friendly, which threw me off a bit and made me doubt myself. Then I had a second phone interview with the project manager for one of their school districts. She was way warmer and we just chatted about the difficulties of explaining data to school districts and my consulting experiences in those settings. She said she'd pass me along, but I later heard they went with someone else, which was a bummer.

I went through the hiring process for a Part-time Analyst role at TNTP. After I submitted my hiring exercise, they said I'd hear back in two weeks. But after three weeks with no word, I had to chase them for an update. I then got a rejection email, which was a generic form response and didn't offer any feedback. Considering how much time and effort the hiring exercise took, it would have been better (and more professional) to get an update without me having to ask. The whole process felt impersonal, unclear, and like my time wasn't valued. I really admire TNTP’s work, but I hope they rethink how they deal with candidates, especially those who put in a lot of effort into their application.