According to the Business Insider, these are the 25 companies that throw the toughest interviews …
- McKinsey
- BCG
- Oliver Wyman
- A.T. Kearney
- ZS Associates
- ThoughtWorks
- Bain
- Shell
- Unisys
- Rackspace Hosting
- Cypress Semiconductor
- Susqueanna Int’l Group
- Bazaarvoice
- P&G
- Teach for America
- LEK Consulting
- Juniper
- Sapient
- Stryker
- General Mills
- Progressive
- Headstrong
- Amazon
Note: the high proportion of consulting and tech companies …
Tags: Careers, interviews
The Homa Files 
August 23, 2012 at 1:13 pm |
This list made the rounds on an email chain last week. I htink Forbes “reported” it. It’s basically derived from textual analysis of web discussion boards so not sure how “real” it is.
My observations:
• Several known consulting names are missing: Accenture, Booz & Co, Deloitte
• I don’t see an i-banks on the list – my experience w/ CEG (which was a Goldman JV) and Merrill’s commodity desk were far harder than anything a consulting firm threw at me
• ExxonMobil has the rep of being harder to land than any other oil major – not on the list. Doesn’t mean that’s wrong, just a surprise
• There’s probably a selection bias in terms of who filled out the survey and how they responded – doubt that’s controlled for
For that Forbes article, this is the quality of journalism we see when Ryan Secrest or Chuck Todd tells us what’s trending on Facebook or Twitter. It’s lazy and not terribly insightful.