Advisory Board Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details I originally applied for Health Policy & Government Strategies Consultant (Job ID: 2012-6873), but HR determined after reviewing my resume that I would be more suitable for a Senior Analyst position. My initial phone interview was set up by someone in HR asking when I was available from a list of times/days. Everyone involved in setting up the interview was incredibly friendly and accommodating.

During my interview, the interviewer was awestruck that my undergraduate degree was not in a science/health or technology field, although my Master's is in public health. She sounded repulsed that I would even consider a humanities degree and asked what I had intended on doing with it. I told her I intended on using it as a learning experience since I knew it was so completely different from the field I intended to enter. I wanted a well-rounded academic background.

I was a little put off that neither my interviewer or the person in HR who set up my interview have since answered any of my follow-up questions. I followed-up with my initial email twice with each party and still never heard back. It is May 2013 and my interview was Dec. 2012.

Interview Details I submitted an application and was invited for a first-round interview a few days later. The first interview was fairly basic and the questions were straightforward and expected. Two weeks later I got invited for a second-round interview at Washington D.C. However, this did not get scheduled for another month and a half. They took care of the travel needs, which was appreciated.
The second- round interviews were harder than expected. They consisted of two back to back interviews with higher ups in the department, with more focus on behavioral questions than case interviews. The case interview was surprisingly the most straightforward.
The writing portion was fair.

Interview Details Initially emailed with an HR assistant and had a brief phone interview with her. I was invited to do an in person interview which lasted from 9am-3pm. During this time, I provided a writing sample and spoke with 2 project managers. Each one spent about 30 minutes on a behavioral interview with fairly straightforward questions. There was also a case interview which asked you to explain how you would conduct research to answer a specific question for a company.

Interview Details Advisory Board contacted me a couple weeks after applying for the analyst position with a phone interview opportunity. I was traveling abroad during the interview, so the technical aspect of the interview was challenging. A conference number was provided, but was not working during the time of the call. The phone interview was cancelled twice a few minutes after the scheduled time of call. This seemed highly unprofessional.

Interview Details Short story: I had a phone interview, but that's as far as it went.

Detailed story: I feel like this was a complete JOKE and I didn't get a fair deal out of this. So they e-mailed for a wanting to do a phone interview. Despite the fact that I tried to be flexible with my time, they didn't schedule it until 2 weeks after my initial email.

I'm thinking by then, they had already chosen a price, and I had become an afterthought. Anyway, the phone interview came. The questions were fairly standard and things others here have mentioned or you have heard in other interviews.

Basically, the only way you can mess up a phone interview is if you sound disinterested, really mess up your answers, or don't ask good questions (again uninterested). IMHO, I thought I did very well, and asked good questions (i.e what are the long term prospects of this position? etc).

I get an e-mail a week and half later saying I was not chosen. I wish I knew what the reason was, but I let it be.

Interview Details The HR called to ask me some behavioral questions. She was very interested in learning about the education background, what kind of courses you have taken. The HR was friendly but distant.Did not answer my question about "strategic analytics" directly.

Interview Details There is an extensive interview process. I made it through the interview with the Hiring Manager - most questions centered around QA Best Practices and were not too technical. The next step was a half day with various peer level interviews from both QA and Development

Interview Details phone interview was straight forward and basic. questions like walk me through your resume etc.

Interview Details went through standard phone interview and then came in for a second round of interviews in DC and the next day got called back for a writing exercise and to meet a few more people. The questions were pretty standard interview questions, nothing that you can't prepare for but you should prepare. All friendly and warm people and they were excited about what they do and answering questions that you had about the company.

Reason for Declining – I had another job offer that had a significant increase in salary and benefits but would have gladly accepted a position here.