Analysis Group, Inc.

You share the workload with the billing department. It's sort of difficult to describe because you're pretty much doing something new everyday. During my time there we had to know how to do a variety of tasks, I'm pretty sure my notes covered over 30. The most important tasks involved drafting an...

Not well, because I still don't really know what they stand for. It's really irrelevant though, just PR in most cases. What really matters is the environment and you can sort of get what you stand for through it. I thought most people were nice, but it's not your usual crowd. Let me try to give y...

Very young, intelligent, nerdy and passionate coworkers, everyone works hard but takes the time to get to know each other over lunch, happy hour, company sports teams and more. Great company culture.

In my experience, I would work 9 to 5. I was assigned to three cases over the summer, and my workload was divided between reading up on cases, doing quantitative analyses (mostly on R) and qualitative work (citations, auditing reports, etc).

While I noticed that full time analysts tended to work very long hours including weekends (I will know more about this when I start in July), the summer internship is much more relaxed. I worked 9 to 5 a majority of the days.

Stats, research skills, coding skills, some basic econ knowledge.

Able to talk about your academic research general questions (behavorial questions) career related questions (say that you want to do econ consulting for a few years and maybe go to grad school later)

Good hours 9-6pm. But sometimes you will have late nights. Better hours than management consulting, but still worse hours than a regular 9-6pm job. Expect some late nights. Finance sector worse hours than healthcare sector. Lots of analysis. Report writing. Excel. Some programming (SAS Stata, etc...