I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Forrester
Interview
1) Best internal recruiter of all organizations I've interviewed with; truly showed a passion for the company and her job role. I was constantly apprised of my progress through the recruiting process - a lot more than can be said of some other companies. I certainly did not expect "hints" towards progressing through the process, but the team did everything to prepare me just short of throwing me the bone.
2) Interviews were overall extremely conversational - don't you hate it when you get a green interviewer that follows a script???!?
3) The interviewers sold the work/life balance, and it appears to be true.
4) Being a consultant means you have to have the toolkit to be personable, make sure you yourself are a personable person.
5) I've had MUCH more difficult interviews, ranging from amateur interviewers who asked me 50 questions on "tell me a situation...." to those that gave me cases that lack sufficient numbers to crack. This is cake (although I don't eat cake).
6) Back to being personable - you will be presenting. Please be adequately prepared so you don't fumble for words. No one likes to sweat bullets, so the prudent thing to do is to prepare and do some dry runs.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain your xyz assumption (on case), which is not difficult so long as you were logical.
I am thrilled to hear of your positive experience interviewing at Forrester. We have invested a lot of time and effort in raising the bar within the recruitment team here and equipping hiring teams with robust interview skills and information. Should you have additional thoughts on how we can be doing an even better job, just let me know! aeldred@forrester.com. Thanks! April Eldred
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The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Forrester (Boston, MA) in May 2022
Interview
The interview was based on the STAR process. STAR stands for Situation, Task (or Thought), Action, and Result. The interview was based on behavioral based interviewing. The recruiter also checked in with me after every interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were geared around how detail-oriented I am and how I learn.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Forrester in Jul 2017
Interview
Received email notification of intent to progress my application. Followed by 1 interview with a recruitment lead in India and 3 separate interviews with the hiring manager and team members. The process last than 8 weeks from initial contact (this was 5 weeks after the application). Communication has been sparse throughout. Really disappointing that after 4 rounds of interview the recruitment team fell silent rather than notify the outcome. They have now ignored calls and emails for 2 weeks.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Forrester (New Delhi) in Sept 2016
Interview
I received a call from linkedin application. The HR was fantastic to say the least- respectful, informative and very engaging. After a round of interview with the HR I was scheduled to be on a telephonic interview with the hiring manager based out of Singapore.
Step 1 : I am skipping the HR round as I consider that to be more of a review of my profile and a confirmation of interest. The meeting with the hiring manager was scheduled for 45 minutes. It went really well (or it appeared to) . It was never a skill assessment interview rather a two way process
Step 2 : Interview with Senior Consultant (based out of Singapore again), another high grade knowledge sharing exchange
Step 3 : Interview with Sales Manager based out of India, here , the interview landscape mode tilted back to assessment but more of a profile assessment!, at the end the of it the business model, operations was so well explained that I thought I am already there, :)
Step 4 : Interview with Research VP, this one was a little off the hook, but gradually the interviewer and me got engaged in a better dialogue bringing back the flavor of getting to know each other better
Step 5 & 6 : Case presentation and Playbook presentation- this needed a lot of preparation and I guess I did justice to it! It was attended by several key folks in their New Delhi office and the hiring manager over VC
Couple of folks the HR & the hiring manager deserves a lot of accolades for conducting such a smooth ( and long) process in the best way possible! The only change what might be needed is making those interviews a little longer to help candidates express themselves (it was way too short - 30 mins), also this meant that by the profile discussion is over you are done with the time.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Profile review was the key part of the process, with each interviewer it took more than half of the time in walking through the profile
Situational questions were the other key aspect, such as challenges, difficulty, etc.
One interviewer went on to ask questions on research - primary & secondary
Case questions : Very disappointing in that part, the folks on call hardly asked any questions, in the room there was just one VP he did ask a few questions and off course the hiring manager
Playbook: Unfortunately the hiring manager was not familiar with the particular playbook (that might have hurt my chances, maybe) but the way he answered my questions ( though he knew by then that he is not recruiting me) was surreal and excellent
