Senior Research Analyst Interview Questions

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Very generic & vague questions, one such generic questions - Top 10 trends in technology She was very hung of 10 pointers. Other question 10 outcomes of your projects. she had expectation's of 10 point answer from every question being asked. Other question 10 challenges in your projects. All her questions had 10 point based - bit annoying & funny Interviewer was very vague, shallow ,questions and disinterested , no briefing about the company or job role type of role expectation .
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Senior Research Analyst

Interviewed at Netscribes

3.5
Jul 6, 2021

Very generic & vague questions, one such generic questions - Top 10 trends in technology She was very hung of 10 pointers. Other question 10 outcomes of your projects. she had expectation's of 10 point answer from every question being asked. Other question 10 challenges in your projects. All her questions had 10 point based - bit annoying & funny Interviewer was very vague, shallow ,questions and disinterested , no briefing about the company or job role type of role expectation .

Assess a forest plot and make recommendations for intervention adoption based on relative risks presented. (I put interview difficulty as easy, only because this is what I do for a living. Come prepared with some basic statistical knowledge and it's objectively easy.)
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Senior Research Analyst

Interviewed at GiveWell

4.5
Aug 24, 2025

Assess a forest plot and make recommendations for intervention adoption based on relative risks presented. (I put interview difficulty as easy, only because this is what I do for a living. Come prepared with some basic statistical knowledge and it's objectively easy.)

Typical HR questions; how to structure minvol portfolio; what research ideas Head of research was specialized in qualitative research, so was not capable of judging quantitative skills and did so only based on the school I attended (he said the latter himself); C-level executive literally just talked about himself for most of the interview and made judgements on research ideas after saying he has never heard of the techniques I mentioned; both head of research and C-level executive were ex-Deutsche Bank and clearly came with the associated superiority complex. Probably dodged a bullet there
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Senior Quantitative Research Analyst

Interviewed at Solactive

3.5
Apr 5, 2021

Typical HR questions; how to structure minvol portfolio; what research ideas Head of research was specialized in qualitative research, so was not capable of judging quantitative skills and did so only based on the school I attended (he said the latter himself); C-level executive literally just talked about himself for most of the interview and made judgements on research ideas after saying he has never heard of the techniques I mentioned; both head of research and C-level executive were ex-Deutsche Bank and clearly came with the associated superiority complex. Probably dodged a bullet there

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