I interviewed with 3 people in the company over the phone and the interviews went well. After the interviews I was asked to complete a writing assignment. After not hearing anything for 2 weeks, I followed up in an email. They responded a week and a half later, saying they would contact me the following week to talk more about the decision. After not hearing anything for 2 more weeks, I followed up again and never heard anything from them. I have never had such an unprofessional interview experience. I found it incredibly disrespectful that they couldn't respond to my emails in a timely fashion and have the decency to give me closure for the position.

The interview process was not exactly what I was expecting given the relatively vague job description. All the same, I got the impression that the president likes to keep the posting short on detail as to cast as wide of a net as possible. I applied online one morning, and got a call for an interview a few hours later the same day. I arrived at their office and had a 30-40 minute talk with the President, followed by another 30-40 minute meeting with the Senior Researcher, and a slightly shorter discussion with a current Research Analyst. After all this was said and done, they showed me to a conference room with a laptop, and gave me a short (500 word max) writing assignment to complete at my leisure. The assignment itself wasn't timed, and asked that you read a short article about cities getting rid of parking spaces. The idea was to briefly summarize the article in your own words. Upon finishing, I was given a weekend writing assignment to send back to them about Low Income Housing Tax Credits. HR thanked me for sending it in, said they would be in touch, and never responded. I would say I was disappointed, but honestly the working environment and future prospects were rather grim upon sight. This positions sole job (as other reviews have said) is summarizing articles about what HUD is doing to post on HUD User. It's essentially HUD contracting Sage to document/praise their current efforts. It wouldn't necessarily be a bad place to start your career in the sense that it would make you government contacts, but it was clear from the get go that there's no possibility of upward mobility. I've kept an eye on their job postings for the past year and it seems like they have a pretty high turnover rate. The Research Analyst posting never disappears. They've even added a few new research positions recently. At the end of the day, everyone there was super friendly, just go in with your future prospects in mind.