I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Charles River Associates (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2019
Interview
Three rounds of interviewing - first was a phone screen, second a video case interview, and third an on-site interview. The on-site was really interesting. It started with an exercise assessing your ability to gather and collect information from a conference call. The actual 'case' was like nothing I've prepared for and was fairly difficult for me. They present you with raw data that they expect you to clean and generate a presentation for which you'll give afterwards. At the end, I was also expected to give a presentation I had prepared ahead of time on my own work. Busy, busy day but I genuinely had a good experience.
Two technical interviews, with example real world scenarios. Real world scenarios could be BEC, ransomware, or dead-box forensics. Then, two "personality/vibe" interviews, where they asked about how you handle failure, difficult or new scenarios, and what your work approach is.
There are two rounds of interview for incoming analysts, One with two juniors, fairly quick and not technical. There was also a second interview with 4 rounds, each of which was with a more senior level person
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why I am interested in the practice area I applied for
Smooth. 2 rounds of interview. A lot of questions surrounding research experiences and data processing. Not too many technicals. Many fit questions as well. Generally not difficult and got back to me pretty fast.
