I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at ZS Associates (Princeton, NJ) in Apr 2013
Interview
I interviewed with 2 individuals, one was a manager, the other was a principal. The principal interview went good. My first interview was with the manager. He was the one that presented me with the case. He had 3 problems
1) He had a very heavy accent, which made it hard to follow his thought process
2) He became upset after a while, at least that's what I felt
3) He refused to offer any help in the case, so when I answered the first part correct he wanted more of an answer in his head. When I couldn't reach his same conclusion things just went downhill after that.
Another thing that deeply bothered me was that I was promised to interview with someone else, and I found out on site that they changed my schedule.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The case was structured, which threw me off especially since I had an interviewer that had a terribly heavy accent.
Communication round , first it was a aptitude test round which was online. I was able to clear that one but miss the verbal communication round. The reviews I heard for the company were great and nice. Missed opportunity
Long interview process. Pleasant people to talk to. Very straightforward and reasonable. Interview was similar to many large consulting firms. Was extended and offer for an offer with a relocation package. Ultimately decided that it was not right for me at this time.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at ZS Associates in Aug 2025
Interview
This is an on-campus experience company shortlists students based on
where I was selected after one round of screening in the interview, although the interviewer gave enough time to solve the questions.It held for 1 hr 30 min. It was a good expereince
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1)Test 1, which consists of aptitude and English
2)Personal interviews
where I was asked a guesstimate, DSA, SQL questions
1)SQL-
a)Explain about types of joins and write the output of a join
b)Some standard queries
2)Python fundamentals
3)DSA -
Find the longest substring without duplicates
4)Guesstimation
a)Find the number of paint cans required to paint an aeroplane