The Smart Cube Interview Questions

Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4+ months. I interviewed at The Smart Cube (Chicago, IL (US)) in February 2012.

Interview

They use a outside recruiter . Who will interview you and then pass you onto Part Owner/Managing Director/Sales Person in Chicago for a second interview. Then you will be passed to 2 of their sales people for additional interview and they will turn you back to the Owner for one of several late stage/final interviews.

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Negotiation

Their recruiter will ask you for paystub etc and then they base your package based on that. Decent base salary but bad commission rate and if you are used to strategic sales person that this is not a place for you.

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at The Smart Cube (Noida) in February 2013.

Interview

Initial screening: Psychometric test
First Round: A written test
Second Round: Technical interview based on financial statements and macros happenings
Third Round: HR Round to understand the job fitment and some personality based questions

Applied 364 Students
Screening: 200 approx
First Round: 14
Second Round: 3 to 4
Selected: 1

Financial Research Group interview are generally more rigorous than SSG group

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Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at The Smart Cube (Mumbai) in November 2013.

Interview

First round was an aptitude test which also tested our finance knowledge if applying for financial domain. Then we had a group discussion for testing our communication skills.
It was a two round process and the questions were only about Finance. The questions were related to valuation, accounts, corporate finance and some HR questions.

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Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at The Smart Cube (New Delhi) in September 2018.

Interview

the three round interview consisted of a group discussion, guesstimate and case study. Then the last round was a HR interview and Personality check. Around 15 people got the offer

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Application

The process took 1 day. I interviewed at The Smart Cube (New Delhi) in February 2016.

Interview

it was good experience. the asked different puzzles and about the current affairs. interview was for an hour and it was conducted in three rounds - HR,TECHNICAL and Mixed. the interviewees were quite friendly and helped me understand the questions I dint know. they asked about the current happenings also about the top pharmaceutical companies in india.

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Interview

There were 3 stages of which first was to evaluate my profile second my knowledge third my fit into the team and the system.The process is easy but ensured to know what they wanted.

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Application

I applied through college or university. I interviewed at The Smart Cube (Noida).

Interview

They held an AMCAT test in our university campus(for B.E).Some 600 gave the test.84 were shortlisted.
~20 for Data Analyst profile
Rest for SSG profile
We were called for "3 rounds of technical interviews" at their office in Noida at 9:00 AM on Monday.
First round : Extempore .Any topic of your choice.
Second round : Interview. Questions like :
1-What is the difference between KFC and McD's marketing strategies?
2-How many flower pots are sold in Delhi in a month etc
Answered most of the questions but their selection criteria seemed quite vague.People who had excellent profiles and skills (both conversational and technical) were rejected.Some were made to wait the entire day and then all of a sudden ,without any interview, rejected.
6 were selected.2 in DA profile.

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Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at The Smart Cube (Chandigarh) in August 2015.

Interview

Selection was a three stage process:-
1)Written Test
2)Extempore
3)Interview
About 70 students were short-listed after the test and extempore and then there were two sessions of interview one technical and one HR. The overall experience of the interview was quite decent the interviewers were very friendly and polite. The Technical round was based on guess estimate and case study while the HR round was about my personal background and the extra-curricular activities in which I was a part of.

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Negotiation

It was great the panel was quite good in nature.

Application

The process took 1 day. I interviewed at The Smart Cube.

Interview

Written test followed by extempore.
Two interview rounds - Second with VP.
The questions depended on the profile you were applying for.
Written test had general aptitude questions on quant and verbal.
Extempore-Group of people were called to speak on the topic.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at The Smart Cube.

Interview

I applied online by contacting a random HR employee through linked in (firstname.lastname@companyname.com). HR immediately replied and called me for an assessment day kind of thing with about 30 other candidates.

Numerical and English Test, group discussion, followed by two case interviews. After each stage, half the number of candidates were asked to leave. I think 2-3 of us were selected finally.

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Negotiation

Was happy with the pay package - no negotiation.