I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at AlphaSights (Tokyo) in May 2024
Interview
4 rounds and requires high-level English & Japanese. Don't waste your time applying if you don't at least fulfill this. Worktime is from 7 am to 9-10pm (yes, they wrote it in their official document to applicants) so please also consider.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Identify the skills needed to do the job and they will ask a lot of questions about your past experience related to that.
There is a role-play call in Japanese in 2nd round
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at AlphaSights
Interview
Coffee chat with Alphasights recruiter
One to one interview with recruiter - regular STAR questions, ended up asking about my proficiency in a third language I spoke even though that wasn't what I was recruited for
Interview with VP(?)
3-4 stages, last stage was really unexpected a far more intense behavioural and background interview, wasn't really given any materials from the company. However HR was super helpful whenever I reached out.
the first ai round was really easy. then the actaully first round was also Pretty easy first round. Asks you the basic questions. tell me about urself, what do you do at school etc.