Hiring at Advancing Analytics: The interview process

Finding a new job can sometimes feel like a full-time endeavour, whether you’re actively looking for a change or casually seeing what’s out there. At Advancing Analytics, we’re committed to ensuring that your interview experience is seamless. We pride ourselves on transparency (it’s even in our values) – we are big believers that there are no secrets here!

We update our careers page regularly, which is the best way to apply. We recommend applying to one role which you feel aligns best with your skills and interests. During the first stage of the process, if we feel another role might be a better fit, we’ll talk you through this. Additionally, our People Recruitment Manager sends out messages via LinkedIn, so we’d suggest to keep your LinkedIn page as up to date as possible.

Our Interview Process

Interviews are a two-way street; they’re not just about us evaluating your skills, but also about you assessing whether we’re the right fit for you! Generally, our interview structure remains consistent:

• Getting to know you (with the People Recruitment Manager)
• Technical competency interview (with two members of the team)

Getting to know you (Knowing me, knowing you)

This call typically lasts for 30 minutes via Teams with our People Recruitment Manager. This is an opportunity to get to know each other as this will be your main point of contact throughout the interview journey. You’ll be able to find out more about what it’s like to work here at Advancing Analytics, the projects we work on and an overview of the upcoming interview process. Likewise, it provides us an opportunity to learn more about you – your background, experiences, and motivations for applying here. We want to make sure you’ve applied for the role which is going to be the best fit for you.

Technical competency (How do you learn?)

This marks our final interview and typically lasting about 60 minutes with two members of the team, depending on the role you’re applying for. During this session, we’ll delve into your previous projects and probing into your implementation strategies, the decisions you made, and the rationale behind them. We believe this approach is more insightful than a technical test, because we all use Google, ChatGPT or phone a friend. We might ask something that you’ve not done before, there’s no need to panic – we’re interested in your problem-solving approach! Additionally, we’ll provide a deeper insight into some of the projects you might be working on, typical team size and what an average day would look like at AA. Finally, we will make sure we save enough time at the end of the interview for questions.

Final Decision

We aim to decide and let you know either way within a week, however sometimes things can be slightly different. For us to make the right decision, the team who participated in the interviews will discuss all the feedback together – alongside our skills framework. If there’s a good fit, our People Recruitment Manager will be in touch to discuss the offer with you. However, if it’s a no this time, the team will be in touch with feedback.

Interested in finding out more about what roles we are recruiting for? Take a look at some of our open roles here.