I interviewed with AlphaSights three times over as many weeks in a fairly comprehensive manner. The first interview was professional but informal - it was with one of the vice presidents and a lead analyst, so both quite senior in the company. The purpose of this interview was a personality Q&A essentially to gauge who I was as a person, find out my motivations and fundamentally ascertain if I would be a fit with AlphaSights. Many of the questions were to do with my background, experiences, what I wanted from AlphaSights and how the company could move me forward. I enjoyed speaking with quite senior members of the team earlier on and I was pleased with their level of interest in me personally. I waited only a few days for confirmation that I was invited to a second round interview. The format would be different and aimed to evaluate my thought process regarding a hypothetical AlphaSights project and if my methodology would correlate to theirs. I was interviewed by another vice president and two team lead analysts, so also another fairly senior composition. The bottom line of this interview, a case study, is do you understand what AlpaSights does? Here people often stumble by thinking that AlpaSights does market research or consulting. If your presentation of the case study reflects that, then it probably won't be a fit. Essentially the candidate must demonstrate a coherent methodology in approaching a problem and justify the decision-making in arriving to the proposed solution. I also found this useful because while preparing for this round I had to critically reflect on the operation and business model of AlpaSights and cogently demonstrate I could operate in the environment. Following about 30 minutes of my presentation and follow up questions, we then spent another 45 minutes discussing my motivations and background. Again, I felt comforted that the interviewers were engaged with my personality and wanted to get to know who I was. News for the final interview came quite shortly thereafter and this was a one on one interview with one of the founding managing directors of the company (sometimes it's both, sometimes just one). This was probably my favourite interview of the three, I was made to feel at ease with the situation and there was not even a hint of intimidation or distraction. The managing director genuinely was interested in getting to know me and wanted to see how I was. After over an hour I left the interview feeling that I had done well and had a decent shot. That evening I received a telephone call from the managing director telling me I would be made an offer and asking if I could come in the next day to discuss and sign a contract. Again, we spoke one on one for just over an hour and he outlined his vision for my training and development in a very coherent and thoughtful fashion, which I appreciated and definitely got me to feel I was part of the team from the beginning. I started work the next day. I found the entire process very intuitive and well balanced - there was a healthy mix of gauging aptitude as well as personality, which is a massive role in this job, so definitely make it show! All in all the process lasted just over three weeks from first round to first day.

I applied for the Graduate Analyst position at London. The process lasted for around 1 month from contacted by hr to interview. I went through HR screening and user interview. The interview process was okay.