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Thank you for taking the time to leave this detailed review. We appreciate your opinions and insight about our interview process with our Market Analysis & Strategy group. Since you have covered a lot of points, we would like to take this as an opportunity to use your review to shed light on our process as it might be helpful to others.
The interview process can vary by group and is ever-improving as we identify new technologies and methods to create the best candidate experience possible. We understand that with multiple steps in the interview process, confusion can happen. To address this, we provide our candidates with a point of contact throughout the process to allow them to ask any questions they might have about next steps or clarification.
As we try to find the best candidate for a given position, the process can be robust and as mentioned with MA&S there are multiple steps. We feel that allowing candidates to talk to multiple people gives them a chance to be conversational and an opportunity to highlight different skills. We believe that diversity of candidates is benefited by diversity of interviews. We acknowledge that there was opportunity to improve on this and have taken steps to decrease the amount of interviews. Due to some roles having panel presentations/cases, it may initially appear that there are more interview slots than you really have.
The Case study and the Presentation provide opportunities for you to showcase more facets of your expertise and competencies. Our interview time slots are scheduled to accommodate your schedule and the interviewers calendar, we try not to have the presentation at the last time slot of the day, but sometimes this is unavoidable. The purpose of the case study is to test a candidate’s skills in a real-life scenario. While some of the data we use may be internal, it is meant to be understood by all candidates (internal or external), so they can fully highlight their knowledge for the position. The case study is used more to evaluate a candidate’s analytical abilities vs. their industry knowledge.
It is great that during your interview, you were able to observe our workplace, however, the layout of our offices does not fully represent our work environment here. While our employees may have their own office or cubicle to work from, we also have many other areas where employees mingle, socialize and/or collaborate while working. Each department or group within our company has the chance to give input on how they want their work area, because we encourage our groups to explore and implement different methods that would best fit their team.
We are sorry you felt the experience was short of wonderful, but have taken note of your review and shared it with the appropriate people. We wish you the best on your future endeavors. Thanks again for taking the time to leave this review.