I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at GLG (Maynooth) in Aug 2016
Interview
Applied via a website for this graduate programme. Heard back from HR within two days asking me to have a phone interview with the company. Interview was on time and lasted approximately 30 minutes. The lad was nice and we had a bit of a laugh. Interview itself was quite tricky as a lot of the questions seemed to be coming from a script that she had to follow. No real initiative taken by the interviewer to actually find out about the person despite my chatty nature.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What does GLG do and what is their business model.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at GLG (Dublín, Dublín) in Sep 2016
Interview
On the phone for 20-30 mins ... The questions asked were quite difficult..However the interviewer was quite nice .They got back to me through email that i was not offered the job
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at GLG in Jul 2016
Interview
I first talked to a senior manager who was super sweet and informative about the details of the role and the vision for the team. I then spoke with three managers in total and did a case study. They expect you to run a call with a client and a manager on a topic/research question of their choosing. at the end of my case study I was told real life client calls aren't as intense because usually you are given more information, but I suppose they throw you in the deep end to see how you react under pressure.
After the case study, I had a lunch interview with another senior manager on the team. This is where it gets a little weird. The manager was supposed to talk to me via phone/video conferencing but changed these plans because he was going to be in my city. I don't know if lunch interviews between only two people is commonplace, but I felt very uncomfortable. I've had lunch with other prospective teams before while going through an interview process and felt fine. This dynamic, on the other hand, was totally unsettling. It was like being on a bizarro date where I'm trying to be impressive and make my personality stand out while being essentially interrogated. I think the fact that this senior manager was first extremely late to the lunch and then very "casual" (e.g., talking about drinking and using excessive profanity) came off as very unprofessional and wandered into feeling inappropriate.
Overall the interview process wasn't terrible, but the last interview left me with such a negative impression that it made me rethink if I would have accepted an offer if it have been extended. I'm not sure it would have been a "good fit" based on that last impression. I can say this now after going through other interview processes and landing a job at a tech company on the west coast where the level of professionalism throughout the interview process was night and day. The interview process is just as much for the applicant to decide if this is a good fit for them as it is for the employer. Fortunately, this applicant realized it wasn't for them.