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Why CHAI? How does the position fit with your career goals? What is your working style? How do you manage stress/tight timelines/conflict? Tell me about a time you had to manage someone - what were the challenges and how did you overcome them?
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Senior Associate

Interviewed at Clinton Health Access Initiative

3.8★
May 2, 2024

Why CHAI? How does the position fit with your career goals? What is your working style? How do you manage stress/tight timelines/conflict? Tell me about a time you had to manage someone - what were the challenges and how did you overcome them?

Questions Asked: What are things you don't like to do? Examples of when you've received tough feedback, and what did you do about it? Talk about a highly satisfying project. Why PIP? Why should PIP hire you? Case Questions: A casino is looking to maximize revenue. They have 3 games in the casino, Blackjack, Roulette, Slot machine. Blackjack tables are being 100% utilized, Roulette 80%, and Slot Machines 50%. How would they go about maximizing revenue? An unbranded gas station that has been in operation for 25 years and is in between a major highway, and a small town is faced with the fact that a major branded competitor is opening a station across the street. It has 8 months to figure out what to do, what would you do? A metal recycling company has multiple locations, and is spending lots of money transporting scrap metal in between its locations, mainly because some locations have necessary equipment and some don't. The transportation is contracted out, but they want to know what metrics to follow in order to make sure they are being as efficient as possible. Market Sizing case: How many airmiles are generated by one of the major airlines in the US per year. Estimate the amount.
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Senior Associate

Interviewed at Partners in Performance

4.2★
Dec 19, 2014

Questions Asked: What are things you don't like to do? Examples of when you've received tough feedback, and what did you do about it? Talk about a highly satisfying project. Why PIP? Why should PIP hire you? Case Questions: A casino is looking to maximize revenue. They have 3 games in the casino, Blackjack, Roulette, Slot machine. Blackjack tables are being 100% utilized, Roulette 80%, and Slot Machines 50%. How would they go about maximizing revenue? An unbranded gas station that has been in operation for 25 years and is in between a major highway, and a small town is faced with the fact that a major branded competitor is opening a station across the street. It has 8 months to figure out what to do, what would you do? A metal recycling company has multiple locations, and is spending lots of money transporting scrap metal in between its locations, mainly because some locations have necessary equipment and some don't. The transportation is contracted out, but they want to know what metrics to follow in order to make sure they are being as efficient as possible. Market Sizing case: How many airmiles are generated by one of the major airlines in the US per year. Estimate the amount.

I was repeatedly asked--multiple times in each of my three interviews--why I wanted to leave my current job in academia. Increasingly, this question was accompanied by negative references to other academics who had worked there, and skepticism as to whether anyone who enjoyed academia could really be successful at RFA.
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Senior/Research Associate

Interviewed at Research For Action

2.8★
Apr 11, 2018

I was repeatedly asked--multiple times in each of my three interviews--why I wanted to leave my current job in academia. Increasingly, this question was accompanied by negative references to other academics who had worked there, and skepticism as to whether anyone who enjoyed academia could really be successful at RFA.

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