The document discusses the results of a survey on the toughest companies to interview with and get a job at. It provides details on the interview difficulty ratings and length of the interview process for various top companies. McKinley & Company is ranked as the single toughest with an interview difficulty rating of 3.9 and an extensive 39 day long interview process. Other challenging companies to interview with include ThoughtWorks, Boston Consulting Group, Gartner and Bain & Company.

1. TOUGHEST INTERVIEW
PROCESS – by Arise Roby
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2. 11- PAYCOM
Paycom, which is an American online
payroll and human resource
management service provider, is
the first entry in our list. It is
slotted the eleventh position,
thanks largely to a grueling
screening process which has
garnered an imposing difficulty
score of 3.5 out of a possible 5
rating points.
As per the respondents, the interview
process at the firm founded by
Chad Richison is extremely nerveracking and one needs to be at his
very best to make the cut.
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3. 10 - HUBSPOT
Established in 2006, HubSpot is a
Massachusetts based software firm that
specializes in providing software for
businesses to coordinate their online
marketing effort. With an interview
difficulty rating 3.5 (out of a possible 5
rating points), this organization is slotted at
the tenth position in the list of companies
with the toughest job interview.As per the
respondents, the interview process at the
brainchild of Brian Halligan and Dharmesh
Shah is long and grueling. The company
looks to hire candidates who are hungry for
success and aspirants should be prepared to
crack lengthy tests, which are an
amalgamation of brain-teasing situational
questions, plus problems on vocabulary,
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analogies, word and math.

4. 9 - STRYKER
• The next firm that is in focus is the
Michigan based medical equipment
firm, Stryker Corporation.
• The company that specializes in the
development of medical implants,
surgical and imaging technologies, as
well as patient handling and
emergency medical equipment, is
renowned for its tough screening
process. With a screening process that
on average spans over 35 days and an
interview difficulty rating of 3.6 out of
a possible 5, this organization
definitely deserves a place in this
list.
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5. GOOGLE
The search engine giant that
specializes in internet related
products and services is slotted
at the eighth position in the list
of companies that are the most
difficult to get through. With
an astounding interview
difficulty rating of 3.6 and a
screening process that spans
approximately 37 days, the
conglomerate has proved to
the world that landing a job at
this firm is not a child’s play
and only the finest can make it
through the interviews.
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6. ZS ASSOCIATES
• With a more than impressive interview
difficulty rating of 3.6 and an interview
process that lasts for about 29 days, ZS
Associates has garnered the seventh slot
in the list.
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Established in 1983 and co-founded by
Andris A. Zoltners and Prabhakant
Sinha, this renowned multinational
management consulting firm specializes
in marketing and sales consulting. The
firm presently employs more than 2,000
professionals and is offering consulting
services to about 700 companies spread
across 3 continents, namely, North
America, Asia and Europe.
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7. ROLLS ROOYCE
•
Rolls-Royce, the most prestigious
brand in the automobile world, is the
next entry in the list.
• As per the respondents, brain-teasers
such as “How would you build an
engine from scratch?”, grueling
questions concerning the very specific
aspects of the corporation, and the
sheer length of the interview that are
often spread around 46 days, literally
made them sweat. They also added that
though the screening process was
tough, the recruiters were some of the
finest in the world. They were friendly
and made the candidates feel confident
and wanted as employees.
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8. BAIN & COMPANY
• Boston based, multinational
management consulting
firm, Bain & Company, is
slotted at the fifth position in
the list, thanks largely to its
interview difficult rating of
3.7 and the duration of the
entire interview process that
typically lasts for around 28
days.According to the
respondents, though the
interview were tough, they
were not unfair.
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9. GARTNER
• Established in 1979, Gartner Inc. is an IT
research and advisory firm that is based
in Stamford, Connecticut, United States.
The company specializes in providing
technology related insights that are
targeted at CIOs and senior IT leaders in
industries.
•
Landing a job at this firm is considered
as one of the toughest in the world and
this is for a reason. Candidates aspiring
to work at this company must first crack
an interview that is designed to test their
mental proficiencies to the fullest, plus
the grueling 35 day long screening
process adds to the difficulty of being
hired by this organization
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10. BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP
• Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is one
of the largest private companies in the
United States, which serves as an
advisor to clients in the private, public,
and not-for-profit sectors across the
globe.With a grueling interview
difficulty rating of 3.8, and a 32 days
long interview process that is designed
to test the best, it is undoubtedly one of
the toughest companies to make the
cut.
"If I took your resume and removed the
name at the top, what line on your
resume would make your friends read it
and recognize you?” is one of the
toughest brain-teaser that candidates
have to regularly crack to land a job at
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11. THOUGHT WORKS
• Number two on the list of
companies that are the
toughest to land a job, is
ThoughtWorks, which is a
global IT consultancy that
provides custom software,
software tools, consulting, and
transformation services to
clients. This firm has garnered
an interview difficulty rating of
3.9 and aspirants must
successfully endeavor 43 days
long screening process in
order to land a job at this
firm.
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12. McKinsey & Company
• McKinsey & Company, which is a global
management consulting firm, has garnered top
honors in our list. With an interview difficulty
rating of 3.9 and a taxing 39 days long
interview process that can be handful for even
the most qualified individual, the undisputed
king of consulting firm has also emerged as the
company with the toughest screening
process.
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Vistaprint, Procter & Gamble, Avaya,
Microsoft, BlackRock, Sapient, Citrix Systems,
Nvidia, Informatica, Facebook, Guidewire,
Caterpillar and Rackspace are some of the
other firms which have made it to the list of
companies with the toughest interview process.
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