The Advisory Board Company Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (41%)

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Interview Difficulty (55%)

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The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. The higher the number, the more difficult the interviews on average. If you hover over the various sections of the doughnut, you will see the % breakdown of each score given.

The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more insights, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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Interviews at The Advisory Board Company

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1st Year Analyst
Year 2013
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Consulting
Location Washington
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Consultant
Year 2014
Job Title Consultant
Group/Division Healthcare
Location Washington
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Associate
Year 2013
Job Title 1st Year Associate
Group/Division Consulting
Location Washington
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Easy
1st Year Analyst
Year 2013
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Research
Location Washington
Experience
Negative
Difficulty
Easy

Interview Questions & Answers - The Advisory Board Company Examples

Analyst, New Product Development Interview - Consulting

Anonymous interview candidate in Washington
Interviewed: December 2013
Date Submitted: Mar 03, 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Other
Interview
First round was a basic screening phone interview (mostly behavioral, some specific questions on research/internship experience). After that, invited to Washington DC for final round interview (all expenses paid). On-site consisted of two interviews, each of which was a 1-hour 2 on 1 interview with a 30 min. case study. Case study is not quite as difficult or even quantitative as most consulting cases. For ex., one of the cases was more of a discussion on why food carts in DC had grown in quantity over the last few years. Supposed to have a 3rd round 1:! with a more senior person from the department, but I was dismissed early.
Interview Questions
Why have food carts in DC grown in number recently? Follow up question on what considerations should be taken if you want to enter the food cart market.
Easier gov't regulations than brick and mortar restaurant, increased demand b/c of improving economy, changing tastes (fast casual food over fast food), technology changes (ex. mobile credit cart payment such as Square), easy to move where demand is, low fixed costs and capital expenditures.

Used Porter framework to analyze entering the food truck market.
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Healthcare Consultant Interview - Healthcare

Anonymous interview candidate in Washington
Interviewed: February 2014
Date Submitted: Feb 25, 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
I sent in an application, and then an employee referred me. While the employee referral didn't help me land the actual interview, I was able to have a talking point with the hiring manager. He talked about the position to me, and spent 10 minutes asking me questions. The behavioral questions were relatively basic, mostly things like "Tell me about yourself" and "What did you use data analytics for, and how did you present this data to your manager?", "Tell me about a time where you worked as a team". He wasn't too interested in other parts of my resume, which showed off my teamwork and client management abilities. It felt like he was more interested in finishing the interview, and just getting through the questions - aka reading off the sheet.
Interview Questions
"Tell me about a time when you managed multiple projects and how did you do it?"
"Tell me about how you presented data to your superiors"
"Tell me about what types of data analytic tools you've used, and how you've used them"
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Associate Principal Interview - Consulting

Anonymous interview candidate in Washington
Interviewed: 2013
Date Submitted: Aug 13, 2013
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
1. Submitted Resume and Cover Letter online via Careers / Jobs section of the website

2. Received email follow up to set up a phone screen; spoke with an affable recruiter who discussed her experience with ABCO and noted the new education platform focus that the company was seeking to build as a new direction from its core hospital market intelligence

3. Invited for in-person interviews at Washington, DC-headquarters (paid for by ABCO).

4. Spoke with 2 of the 3 scheduled in person interviewers; 3rd had a last minute scheduling conflict and I was told that this should not impact their candidate review process. A) First interviewer discussed ABCO's deliberate expansion of their Corporate Strategy team to focus on internal product development, hence the NPD team as well as my interest / background in applying to this team. B) Second interviewer focused on review of familiarity with their hospital products as well as of opportunity of the role to encompass both market research to development and bringing a product to market. Interview questions further consisted of background / fit questions.

Impressions of DC office: Business casual dress code with lots of interview candidates in and out of office that day; kept to a small portion of the office for my two interviews, so was not able to get a good grasp of the space. NPD team seems to be most akin to an internal start up group, with potential customers and resources readily available / provided by a corporate parent.

Interview Questions
Most surprising was the fact that there were no quantitative questions or even case questions, nor were my requests for candidate feedback responded to by either interviewers or the firm, so I am not sure how candidates are objectively evaluated.
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Analyst Interview - Research

Anonymous interview candidate in Washington
Interviewed: July 2013
Date Submitted: Jul 22, 2013
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
I had an alum from my school who works there refer me. Then I had a phone interview. The interviewer seemed out of it and not interested in what I was saying. Make sure you know what advice you would give your school's administration because they will ask you.
Interview Questions
What advice would you give your school's administration?
I told them something about career services and making people more aware of it from the moment they set foot on campus.
Why did you leave X position?
Recruiter seemed to be poking holes at me. Make sure you are prepared to defend your answer and explain its relevance to the position.
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