I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at AlphaSights in Jun 2021
Interview
Did a short behavioral interview for a 2-day event hosted by the company, that fed into the final round interview, split into 2 hours. Final round had some behavioral, but mainly the case study you have to do is the biggest part. Select 2 of 3 prompts that they offer and find 2 individuals each that fit the criteria for who they should refer a client to.
Interview to do the 2-day event and the first interview of the final round was fairly easy. These were both with associates or maybe a recruiter. The second interview of the final round the interviewer, who was a VP or something, was extremely rude.
AlphaSights employees always advertise the company as a great launchpad into other careers and if you don't know what you want to do right out of undergrad, which is all I heard at the 2-day event and coffee chatting the associates, but having said this in the final round, I was grilled and mocked the entire interview.
I didn't say it was my reasoning for applying, but I think she/he took it as that and began to imply I was lost and directionless. The questions then got really aggressive, and she/he kept asking the same questions over and over again watching me struggle since I was just repeating my previous answer. He also mocked the fact I had said it was a great platform for relationship-building and communication, which isn't that true? Not sure if she/he was sadistic or didn't like my answer despite it being what I deem pretty normal responses. The VP or whatever seemed pretty cold. Felt like I dodged a bullet if I had to work for someone who acted like they were in the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Associates seem to be pretty nice, but I can tell some of the higher-ups just look as if they're dead inside.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mainly behaviorals, have LinkedIn ready to search up people for client meetings in the case study, know BREAD process, associate turnaround for research is 10-15 minutes, all titles of the people you find in the case should be altered to say "Director/VP of XYZ role in XYZ industry at XYZ company"?
After an AI screening interview the first round of interview is with a senior recruiter that takes about 30 minutes. Many behavioral questions that feels very fast paced. Mostly focusing on your college experiences like classes you took and enjoyed or why you choose your college and major specifically.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at AlphaSights (New York, NY) in Nov 2025
Interview
1st round was an online recording interview. 2nd round was with a recruiter and was a behavior based interview, 3rd round was a case interview. The final round was a behavioral based interview asking some basic questions about you.
It is a online video interview and they have a questionnaire for you to fill out. For the video interview, there are 3 questions and the preparation time is 1 minute for each question.