1st: What are your previous experience relating to the job? How would you apply your experience in this setting? 2nd: Could you summarize a paper you have written? 3rd and 4th: Technical questions on specific tools used in the team. 5th: What are your greatest weakness and strength? 6th: Describe a situation of team work. 7th: Give me an example that you had to convince a client. Switch to Spanish, my questions for them.
I was given an exercise where I had to develop a forecasting model and show how I would predict hourly demand over a long duration. The panel interview then focused on my process and approach.
How do you do X, Y, and Z in Stata or Matlab, etc?
What is GDP deflator. Continued to grill me with this for a long time. What is a unit root. No answer I have satisfied them. They kept twisting everything until I gave up. Cut me off midway many times citing time crunch. but left no stone unturned to grill me.
Why do you want to do consulting and not academia?
Explain a time you have worked on multiple projects with demanding deadlines ?
Why did you choose to study economics
What are some research ideas?
If I like what i will do If Ill pass the interview.
Do you prefer programming or discussing research and interacting with clients?
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