GLG Survey Associate interview questions

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.

I applied via an employee referral, and was contacted within the week to set up a phone screening. This was the first of seven interviews I would undergo over nine weeks. The two weeks after my 5th interview were spent with me just waiting to hear back about scheduling the next interview, which I already knew I was supposed to have, and when I reached out for an update I was told to keep waiting and they would reach out when they were ready. I thought it was unprofessional to basically ask me to keep waiting indefinitely for them to get back to me. There was a case study during interview #4 which involved role playing as if you were a GLG employee working with a client. It was challenging because I felt like I did not have enough information to really be able to play my role appropriately, but it did give me a good feeling for what a typical interaction with a client would look like, as well as how the team works. Most of the interview questions were not that difficult and tended to be repeated from interview to interview--mostly questions about why I was interested in GLG specifically. During my last interview, I felt like my interviewer was kind of condescending and a little skeptical of my achievements. He seemed bemused by some of my answers. Aside from that last interview, I really enjoyed talking to everyone I spoke with and was disappointed not to get offered the job, especially after such a lengthy and intensive process.