There are two main components to consider:
1. Regular Interview
Prepare ~20 questions in advance and memorize them so you can draw from your personal “bank” of answers.
Question types:
Situational (STAR-based) – Such as times when you:
- Managed multiple competing priorities
- Adapted to change
- Multitasked
- Negotiated or collaborated with others
- Worked towards achieving a goal (highlight a time when you succeeded and a time when you failed, how did you handle it and whatnot)
General questions - Such as:
- Tell me about yourself (obviously)
- Why are you interested in the company and this role?
- What is the expert networking industry?
- Who are our clients and why do they use us?
- What do you understand about the associate role and day-to-day responsibilities
2. Case Study Segment
The case study consisted of the following parts (at least for me):
Client Brief:
- Read carefully and explain your understanding of the brief.
Expert Selection:
- Review a list of experts and determine who is a good fit for the client based on the clients criteria and the experts qualifications.
Mock Call with an Expert (probably the hardest part):
Practice a full call beforehand, including:
- Introducing yourself and the company
- Explaining why the expert is a good fit
- Negotiating rates
- Ending it by setting up a call between the expert and the client
Prioritization Exercise:
- You’ll be given multiple projects and asked to prioritize them.
- Consider factors like deadlines, project type, client type, and team size.
- This is mostly common sense, focus more on the first parts.
Feedback Segment:
- At the end, they’ll ask what you would have done differently.
- Be honest and self-critical, they want to see your ability to reflect and improve.
If you were invited for an interview, you probably got an email or some type of file that showed you that the process was three virtual interviews. So the first interview is just a pre-screening with HR, and for me consisted of the typical small talk, like stuff about the company and the role, and then around five regular interview questions and lasted ~45mins. Then the next step is a case study + interview with a manager, which consisted of the case study like highlighted above, and then also around five interview questions and lasted like ~1 hour. And then finally, it's with a VP, which had a couple regular interview questions, but they were more like a team culture fit type of thing and lasted around ~1 hour. I prepared the usual beforehand with my study bank of prepared questions for the last round, but I didn't really refer to them because they were things like, what motivates you? Whose a role model of yours and why? Why do you want to succeed in life?
Overall, just a guideline based on MY experience to help people prepare if they want the job. I didn't get into specifics, just laid a roadmap on how to prepare, you can get specifics from practicing with some AI or other online places. It might be different for you, I just put a bunch of stuff together based on my experience with the interview process.
Also I didn't get the job, I got rejected after making it through all 3 interviews lol. Personally, I thought I did decent, maybe not exceed expectations but didn't think I fumbled any of them. Their HR is pretty transparent as you probably read elsewhere, so they'll give you some nice emails on how to prepare beforehand which you should refer to as well. Overall, after experiencing interviews with other companies, I can say proSapients interview process is definitely better than most so should be a nice experience.
