ZS Associates

ZS Associate Campus Recruitment Procedure : It was an amazing experience. Written round was conducted through AMCAT. AMCAT papers are easy but lengthy. It was divided into 5 sections Verbal Quant Data Interpretation Logical reasoning and Visual Analysis. If you have gone through sample papers of AMCAT , you will easily qualify this round. Just be quick and try attempting maximum questions. Apart from written round, they had campus wise case study challenge. There were rumours that it was part of their recruitment procedure. But actually it had nothing to do with it. If you want to grab awesome goodies and prizes Go for it! Moreover it gives u an idea of what sort of work u are expected to do…So if u are opting for consultancy u can take their case study challenge. Written round results were announced after a week. Interview procedure was a bit challenging. I will suggest you guys to go through CASE TO POINT book before going for ZS interview. (you can utilise that one week time ) It was held on 7 August 2015 morning 7am to evening 8pm. Round number

Round name

Process

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Group Discussion

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Case Study written

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Case study interview

4

Technical/Guesstimate round

It wasn’t an elimination round. Although it was considered for evaluation after final round. My GD topic was “Narendra Modi as PM” . Focus on stating facts and figures while speaking . They love talking in numbers. E.g. India is 7 th largest developing country.. It wasn’t an elimination round. But it was very difficult. You need to have very thorough preparation for this round. We were given A booklet consisting of case study of a sports car manufacturing company. There were lot of bar graphs and charts which were to be analysed. Around 11 papers were there. And based on them 5 questions were there. We were given 30 minutes. We were supposed to calculate values(Calci not allowed) and pen down our thoughts on piece of paper. In this round the interviewer had our case study round paper and we were expected to justify our logic behind each and every answer. Be careful about what u write on that paper. They will ask u everything written on it. They were not reacting to anything I was saying. Not even a single nod! So basically u wont get if your answers are ryt or wrong. Its all about convincing them for ur answer. Go through case study interview videos on youtube. Body language matters a lot in this round. Its an elimination round. Elimination round. Resume based questions were asked like project work whatever you have done,cultural activities you were involved,y drifting towards consultancy ? etc etc... Apart

5

Stress round/Hr

from that guesstimate questions were asked. He asked me to estimate amount of water we use daily in our hostel and the famous one “surface area of boeing plane ”. Just google them once. Process u adopt for solving these questions matters a lot! Don’t panic…be calm that’s all I have to say for this round.They will frustrate u like hell…They will try creating a very stressed environment in interview room. Just keep smiling and firmly support your answers. This interview was taken by senior consultant. He was constantly provoking me to accept the fact that I am not made for consultancy and should pursue career in core. But just keep giving him reasons y u deserve it more than anyone else sitting over there. It was for around an hour. Patience in stressed environment is all they expect!

That’s all they had ! Overall it was the best interview experience I had..! ZS interview is suppose to be 7th most difficult company interview according to Glassdoor. So be thoroughly prepared for it if opting for Operations Associate.. Good Luck! 