I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Ipsos (Mumbai) in Mar 2017
Interview
5 Rounds
It was fairly cet level apptitude test with 30 min,and one can use the calculator even,later there was essay writing for 20 min.ppt test consist of creative question like use of cement in nonconventional way etc,then HR interview was tell me about yourself,why marketing research,why quantitative research and what is quantitative research .Most of candidate get filter in apptitude round and Hr round.
1.Apptitude-Contains quants 15 question and data sufficiency 15 question
2.Essay Writing on technology on market research
3.ppt round of creative test
4.HR interview
5.Technical interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
why research?
Sampling types?
Sampling errors?
Suitational question like how would you do sampling for XYZ newspaper reader?
Cv based projects etc
All about storytelling using data. Two individual tasks and a group task, all based on the same dataset - the key was to pick out interesting trends around a topical subject (GenAI driven advertising).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain one time you have used data to change someone's mind about something.
Two stage interview. Technical and general. 3 weeks in-between. A generally good experience. A general proceeds the technical. Presentation with a team. After which you wait for a response. Okay
There were an online assessment for an hour and 1 round of interview. For fresh grad, they were asking more of education and intern background. No case answering during interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me more about… (regarding my experience in resume)
Research Executive applicants have rated the interview process at Ipsos with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 65% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Research Executive roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 44 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Ipsos overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Ipsos as a Research Executive according to 44 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 23%
Presentation: 13%
Skills test: 13%
Background check: 11%
Group panel interview: 11%
Phone interview: 10%
Personality test: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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