I applied online. I interviewed at Economist Intelligence Unit (London, OH) in Jan 2021
Interview
1) Pandemic depressed (demand) prices in virus effected services (travel, hotels), now demand is back so we have big price jumps
2) Sectors are affected, manufacturing: they assumed demand will fall and stay depressed, but this was a unprecedented situation, gov pumped money into the system and people couldn’t spend on services so they turned into manufacturing goods.
SO WE HAVE SUPPLU DEMAND IMBALANCES, but this will be temporary:
Demand, as the nature of consumption normalizes there will be less pressure on some constraint goods, on the supply side producers have already realized that this is not a typical recession demand will come back quicker than expected and they are in a good position to respond. =>we can not rely on April CPI report
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Pandemic depressed (demand) prices in virus effected services (travel, hotels), now demand is back so we have big price jumps
2) Sectors are affected, manufacturing: they assumed demand will fall and stay depressed, but this was a unprecedented situation, gov pumped money into the system and people couldn’t spend on services so they turned into manufacturing goods.
SO WE HAVE SUPPLU DEMAND IMBALANCES, but this will be temporary:
Demand, as the nature of consumption normalizes there will be less pressure on some constraint goods, on the supply side producers have already realized that this is not a typical recession demand will come back quicker than expected and they are in a good position to respond. =>we can not rely on April CPI report
A writing assignment
2 rounds of interviews one with direct line managers and another with senior managers
Questions were standard to what economics interviews typically ask. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Economic situational questions on BOP and Inflation
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Economist Intelligence Unit (London, England) in Mar 2021
Interview
Was interviewed by HR and some hiring managers. Only got a day's notice for the second interview.
Three years later I'm still waiting for them to tell me whether I got the job!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you have any experience with economic forecasting?
Can you tell me the economic challenges facing * country?
