Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at IQVIA with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 88.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through college or university. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at IQVIA in Jun 2018
Interview
So I applied for a general "analyst" position, but I was contacted to be consider for a position as a multi channel marketing analyst. I first had to answer a few questions through email from the recruiter and then I was sent a quick questionnaire, followed by a video interview. After completing the video interview, I had a phone call with my potential manager and the hiring manager. I thought it went well, but a couple weeks later I learned that they had decided to go with someone else.
However, my recruiter (She was so helpful and considerate! Their HR team is great!) reached out with another position as a market research analyst. After reading the description and conducting my own research, I realized that this type of role greatly aligned with my career development goals, so I said yes. Instead of starting from the beginning, I was scheduled to do another phone interview with my potential manager and with the hiring manager. However, the start date of IQVIA's Academy was coming up soon, so they decided to forgo the phone interview and moved me up for a final round interview! I really wanted this job so I prepared 10+ hours for it, which was worth it in the end.
The final round interview lasted about half a day starting in the morning and ending in the afternoon. I first spoke to my potential manager for about an hour or so. After I had a 30 minute interview with an engagement manager. During both of those interviews, I had to answer behavioral questions and a small "case" study that involved looking at charts and graphs. Following that was lunch with the two. The final part of the interview process was an excel test that lasted about 30 minutes. To study I used Youtube, which was extremely helpful. Think pivot tables and knowing how to use certain formulas. I'm not even sure I did the best on it, but I believed I showed potential (i.e willingly to self teach myself Excel for this position).
Over the next few days, I heard back from the recruiter that I got the job!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why the healthcare industry? Why IQVIA? What kind of leader are you? Walk me through your resume. Explain a time you worked with a huge amount of data. How do you organize your time/work? Tell me about a time when you had to carry on additional responsibilities. Give an example of how you coached/mentored someone. Describe an experience in which your ability to work well with others and reconcile differences was present. Tell me about a time in which you took initiative.
2 "case" studies looking at a chart/graph with data about certain drugs in the pharma industry. I pointed out trends, etc.
Excel Test: pivot tables, formulas, etc.
First round - video (behavioral questions)
Second round - phone (behavioral, a small case, ie the client is launching a product, what information do you want to know to assess the launch)
Third round - technical (Excel, sas, sql, or whatever technical stuff you know)
Fourth round - superday onstie (behavioral, case, excel exam)
I applied online. I interviewed at IQVIA in Jun 2018
Interview
Started with a 30 min phone screening with typical behavioral questions and 2 mini case, then proceed to a 3 hrs long case interview in which they asked you to do some "real life" data analysis using Excel. Then an 3 round onsite, each was 30mins long. The logical chain was broken here - my interview schedule was changed, one interviewer had no idea who was going to interview me next and one was asked to interview me instead of another person and clearly he didn't brother to get my resume so he just talked about HIS experience for 15mins (print a copy is not that hard). Very UNPRO experience for the onsite and after all this, not even received a single mail from the recruiting team for the result.