How to Apply to Analysis Group

22 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 22 open positions
Blake Crosley
Blake Crosley Researched using publicly available information, hiring data, and ATS analysis.

Key Takeaways

  • Analysis Group uses iCIMS at careers-analysisgroup.icims.com (with careers.analysisgroup.com as the public-facing redirect). Apply through the iCIMS portal, complete every structured field, and upload a tailored cover letter, transcript, and (where requested) writing sample as separate PDFs.
  • This is a pure-play economic and financial consulting firm — not management consulting. It competes with Cornerstone Research, NERA, Charles River Associates, Compass Lexecon, Brattle, and Edgeworth Economics, not with McKinsey, BCG, or Bain. Apply only if you genuinely want quantitative, expert-witness-supporting work in antitrust, litigation, healthcare, finance, energy, or IP.
  • The firm is privately partner-owned (no PE, VC, or public listing). Equity sits with active Managing Principals. The promotion track runs Analyst (undergrad/pre-PhD/MBA) → Associate (PhD/MBA) → Manager → Vice President → Principal → Managing Principal, typically eight to twelve years from Analyst entry.
  • Compensation is top-quartile for the economic-consulting peer set (competitive with Cornerstone and Compass Lexecon, above NERA and Brattle in most years), but slightly below MBB at equivalent levels — particularly noticeable at the senior-Associate and Manager grades.
  • Hours are long, especially during expert-report and trial deadlines; 60-to-70-hour weeks are routine in those windows. The firm rarely appears on 'best places to work' lists for junior staff, and the technical bar for entry is unusually high. Candidates who want broad exposure or fast rotation tend to leave within two years.
  • Stata, R, Python, and SAS are the working languages of the firm. Functional fluency in at least one (ideally two) is expected by the end of your first month as an Analyst. Cite specific tools and depth of use on your resume; vague 'proficient in' claims are penalized.
  • Recruiting is structured and on-cycle. Analyst full-time recruiting opens in late August and offers land by Thanksgiving. Internship recruiting runs January through March. PhD Associate recruiting follows the AEA hiring conference (first weekend of January) and runs through April.
  • Interviews include structured behavioral rounds and substantive technical case interviews. For PhD Associates, expect a 15-to-20-minute job-market paper presentation followed by aggressive academic-style questioning on identification, data, and robustness. For Analysts, expect a mini-case (antitrust, damages, healthcare, or finance) plus targeted technical questions.
  • The firm is headquartered at 111 Huntington Avenue in Boston, with fifteen offices globally including New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, Denver, Menlo Park, Montreal, London, Paris, Brussels, Beijing, and Shanghai. English is the working language across all offices; Mandarin is a meaningful asset for the Beijing and Shanghai offices, French for Paris and Montreal.

About Analysis Group

Analysis Group is one of the world's largest privately held economic, financial, and strategy consulting firms, headquartered at 111 Huntington Avenue in Boston's Back Bay. Founded in 1981 by Bruce Stangle and Martha Samuelson, the firm has grown to approximately 1,400 professionals across fifteen offices: Boston (HQ), New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, Denver, Menlo Park, Montreal, London, Paris, Brussels, Beijing, and Shanghai. Bruce Strombom serves as Chairman, with Martha Samuelson continuing as a senior advisor and Bruce Stangle remaining a founding presence in the firm's culture. The firm is partner-owned: there is no private equity, no venture capital, and no public listing. Equity sits with the active Managing Principals who run the business. What Analysis Group actually does is narrower and deeper than what people imagine when they hear the word 'consulting.' This is not McKinsey, BCG, or Bain. There is no PowerPoint-driven C-suite advisory practice, no digital transformation business, and no implementation work. Analysis Group is a pure-play economic and financial consultancy, built primarily to support attorneys, government agencies, regulators, and corporate clients on matters where the answer hinges on rigorous quantitative analysis. The firm's six largest practices are antitrust and competition, commercial and intellectual property litigation, securities and financial litigation, healthcare and life sciences, energy and environment, and technology and IP. Each practice is anchored by economists with PhDs from top departments — Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Chicago, Princeton, Berkeley, Northwestern — and supported by junior staff who do the analytical heavy lifting in Stata, R, Python, and SAS. Much of Analysis Group's most visible work happens in courtrooms and before regulators. The firm and its affiliated academic experts have appeared in many of the largest antitrust, securities, IP, and class-action matters of the past two decades, including merger reviews before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, the European Commission, and competition authorities in the United Kingdom, Canada, China, and Brazil. The firm regularly supports testifying experts who include Nobel laureates, former federal agency chief economists, and named-chair professors. On the healthcare side, Analysis Group is one of the leading firms producing health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) for pharmaceutical and medical-device manufacturers, with deep capabilities in real-world evidence, retrospective claims analysis, and economic modeling for payer submissions in the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, and Canada. The peer set is narrow and well-defined. Analysis Group's direct competitors are Cornerstone Research, NERA Economic Consulting, Charles River Associates (CRA), Compass Lexecon, The Brattle Group, Edgeworth Economics, and a handful of academic-affiliated boutiques. The firm does not compete with McKinsey or BCG except at the very edges. Within the economic-consulting peer set, Analysis Group is consistently ranked at or near the top in antitrust by Global Competition Review and Who's Who Legal, and it has won 'Economics Consultancy of the Year' multiple times across various legal-press awards. Compensation is top-quartile for the economic-consulting industry — competitive with Cornerstone and Compass Lexecon, materially above NERA and Brattle in most years — but slightly below MBB management consulting at equivalent levels, especially at the senior-Associate and Manager grades. The honest framing prospective candidates need before applying: Analysis Group is a high-prestige, intellectually demanding employer that rarely shows up on 'best places to work' lists for junior staff. Why? The hours are long (60-to-70 hour weeks during active expert reports and trial deadlines are routine), the technical bar is high (junior Analysts are expected to be functional in Stata or R within their first month and to write their own code rather than rely on templates), and the work is unforgiving in ways that consulting at MBB is not — your regression specification and your data cleaning will be picked apart by opposing economists in deposition, and a sloppy decimal point can become a court exhibit. People who thrive at Analysis Group tend to share three traits: they enjoy quantitative work as an end in itself, they are comfortable defending technical decisions in front of skeptical senior people, and they want to work alongside academic economists rather than alongside generalist business consultants. People who want broad exposure to corporate strategy, fast-moving project rotation, or a clear path to brand-name MBA recruiting often find that the firm is technically demanding without giving them the breadth they wanted, and they leave within two years for industry, government, or business school. People who like the work tend to stay a long time and build careers that look more like academic-adjacent professional services than like classic consulting.

Application Process

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    Identify the right role and office before applying

    Identify the right role and office before applying. Analysis Group hires across four primary entry points: Analyst (undergraduate, master's, or pre-PhD candidates), Associate (PhD economists or MBA holders, occasionally law-firm or corporate-strategy hires with deep quantitative backgrounds), experienced consultants (Manager and above, almost always with a PhD plus several years of consulting or industry experience), and a smaller stream of business-services professionals (technology, knowledge management, marketing, finance, HR). The vast majority of competitive applications are for Analyst and Associate roles. Office matters: Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. carry the largest hiring volumes, but San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, and London also recruit on-cycle each year. Only apply to one or two offices unless you have a genuine geographic flexibility story, because recruiters cross-reference applications.

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    Apply through the Analysis Group careers portal at careers

    Apply through the Analysis Group careers portal at careers.analysisgroup.com, which redirects to the firm's iCIMS-hosted careers site at careers-analysisgroup.icims.com. Expect a standard iCIMS candidate experience: create an account, upload a resume (PDF preferred), upload a cover letter (required for nearly all roles, and the firm reads them carefully), upload an unofficial transcript (required for Analyst and Associate applications), and complete a structured application form covering your education, prior employment, technical skills, and language proficiency. Analysis Group also requires Analyst applicants to upload a writing sample for many positions and to disclose standardized test scores (SAT, ACT, GRE) where available. Treat the writing sample seriously: it is read.

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    For Analyst roles, time your application to the on-campus recruiting cycle

    For Analyst roles, time your application to the on-campus recruiting cycle. Analysis Group recruits aggressively at a rotating list of target universities in economics, statistics, applied math, public policy, and computer science programs, including but not limited to Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, Brown, Williams, Amherst, Pomona, Duke, UNC, Northwestern, Chicago, Michigan, UCLA, Penn, Georgetown, and select others. The full-time funnel for graduating seniors opens in late August and early September with company information sessions, with first-round interviews in September and October, Superdays in October and November, and offers landing by Thanksgiving. Internship recruiting for rising seniors runs January through March. Off-cycle and non-target candidates can apply directly through iCIMS at any time, and the firm does hire off-cycle, but the bar is meaningfully higher and the conversion rate is lower than for on-cycle hires.

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    For Associate roles (PhD economists), apply through the American Economic Associ

    For Associate roles (PhD economists), apply through the American Economic Association's JOE (Job Openings for Economists) site in addition to the iCIMS portal. Analysis Group is one of the largest non-academic employers of fresh PhD economists in the world, and the firm participates fully in the AEA hiring conference held the first weekend of January each year. Job-market candidates submit a CV, job-market paper, two or three reference letters, a research statement, and a teaching statement (the teaching statement is reviewed but is not weighted heavily for AG). First-round interviews happen at the AEA conference; flyout interviews (called 'Superdays' internally) are scheduled for January through March; offers typically land by mid-February through early April.

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    For experienced hires (Manager, Vice President, Principal), the entry point is a

    For experienced hires (Manager, Vice President, Principal), the entry point is almost always partner-led. Open senior roles do appear on iCIMS, but the more reliable path is direct outreach from a Vice President or Principal in the practice you want to join. The firm prefers to hire experienced consultants with a PhD plus three to ten years of relevant experience, often from a peer firm (Cornerstone, NERA, CRA, Compass, Brattle, Edgeworth) or from an academic post followed by industry. Lateral senior hires negotiate equity participation, and the partnership track for experienced hires is typically two to four years shorter than the eight-to-twelve-year promote-from-within track.

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    Expect two formal interview rounds plus a Superday for Analyst and Associate rol

    Expect two formal interview rounds plus a Superday for Analyst and Associate roles. The first round is generally a 30-minute behavioral interview with a senior Analyst or Manager and a 30-minute case interview with a Manager or Vice President. The case at this stage is intentionally introductory — a back-of-envelope market sizing, a basic regression interpretation, or a simple antitrust or damages framing. Candidates who pass the first round are invited to a Superday at the office where they applied. The Superday is typically four to six interviews back-to-back, alternating behavioral and technical, with at least one Vice President or Principal in the lineup. For PhD Associates, at least one of the interviews will involve a focused 15-to-20-minute presentation of your job-market paper followed by aggressive technical questioning. The full Superday day usually ends with lunch or coffee with a junior staffer, which is genuinely informational and not graded — but be polite anyway, because the junior staffer's notes do reach the hiring committee.

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    Complete the take-home or in-person technical exercise if asked

    Complete the take-home or in-person technical exercise if asked. For Analyst Superdays at certain offices, the firm administers a short data exercise: candidates are given a small dataset, a question, and asked to write Stata or R code (or pseudocode) to answer it. The exercise is usually 30 to 60 minutes and is reviewed by a Manager. Candidates who have actually used Stata or R in a real research or coursework setting do markedly better than candidates who learned syntax from a prep book. For Associates, the equivalent exercise is the job-market-paper presentation itself; expect interviewers who have read the abstract carefully and will challenge your identification strategy, your standard-error clustering, and your robustness checks.

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    Decisions usually arrive within one to two weeks of the Superday

    Decisions usually arrive within one to two weeks of the Superday. Analysis Group is not an immediate-offer firm; the hiring committee meets weekly during recruiting season and makes batched decisions. Offers come from the office's Recruiting Director or a Principal, by phone first and in writing second. Compensation packages include base salary, a sign-on bonus (usually $5,000 to $15,000 for Analysts and substantially more for PhD Associates), an annual performance bonus (typically 10 to 25 percent of base for Analysts and Associates), comprehensive health and dental, a 401(k) with a competitive match, a CFA exam reimbursement program, and an MBA or PhD sponsorship program for high-performing Analysts who want to pursue further education. For Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. hires, expect base salaries in the upper range for entry-level economic consulting (top quartile in the peer set, slightly below MBB at the same level).

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    If you accept, prepare for a structured onboarding

    If you accept, prepare for a structured onboarding. New Analysts attend a multi-week training program in Boston that covers the firm's standards for analysis, code review, document production, and client communication. New Associates have a shorter onboarding focused on the firm's practice areas, expert support workflow, and litigation calendar. Both programs include sessions with the firm's quality-assurance group, which is genuinely different from a standard consulting onboarding — Analysis Group treats analytical quality as a partnership-level concern, and you will hear that explicitly during your first week.

Resume Tips for Analysis Group

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Lead with quantitative evidence, not job titles

Lead with quantitative evidence, not job titles. Analysis Group reads resumes for proof that you can do analytical work — coursework grades in econometrics and statistics, GPA in your major, GRE quant score (if you have a strong one), independent research projects, published or working papers, RA-ships with named professors. A strong Analyst resume from a non-target school often beats a thin resume from a target school for exactly this reason.

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Name your tools and the depth of your fluency

Name your tools and the depth of your fluency. Stata, R, Python, SAS, SQL, Excel, and LaTeX are all valued; vague claims of 'proficiency' are penalized. Better: 'Stata: 3+ years, daily use for econometric analysis including IV, diff-in-diff, and panel data; can write reusable .do files and ado packages.' If you have built dashboards in Tableau or Power BI for academic research or RA work, mention them. If you have used cloud or distributed-computing environments (AWS, GCP, Databricks) for data work, mention them — the firm increasingly handles large insurance-claims and transactional datasets.

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List specific RA-ships and what you actually did

List specific RA-ships and what you actually did. The most credible Analyst resumes have one to three lines describing a research-assistant role with a named faculty member, the project, the methods used, and the deliverable. Example: 'RA to Prof. X (Harvard Economics), 2024-2025: cleaned and merged 12M-observation hospital-discharge dataset (HCUP NIS) for paper on hospital consolidation; ran fixed-effects regressions in Stata; produced figures and tables for journal submission.' That paragraph beats five lines of generic intern duties.

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For PhD Associate applications, treat your job-market paper as the most importan

For PhD Associate applications, treat your job-market paper as the most important asset. Your CV should clearly identify the job-market paper, list its current status (working paper, R&R, published), and include a one- or two-line plain-English summary of the question, identification strategy, and finding. Reviewers at Analysis Group are looking for credible causal-inference work, careful data, and a question that has practical relevance. If you have any real-world data work (large microdata, claims data, transaction-level financial data), highlight it.

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Show writing ability

Show writing ability. Unlike management consulting, Analysis Group's deliverables are long-form expert reports, declarations, and academic-style memos — not slide decks. If you have written for a publication, a journal, a working-paper series, a public-policy organization, or a court (clerkship), say so. A published op-ed in a campus paper is not a credential, but a working paper, a thesis chapter, or a clerk-authored bench memo is.

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Highlight prior litigation, regulatory, government, or healthcare exposure if yo

Highlight prior litigation, regulatory, government, or healthcare exposure if you have it. Internships at the FTC, DOJ Antitrust Division, SEC, FDA, CMS, a federal-court chambers, a state attorney general's office, an academic medical center, or a health-policy organization (CBO, MedPAC, Congressional Research Service) are all unusually credible signals for Analysis Group. Even a summer at a peer economic-consulting firm (Cornerstone, NERA, Brattle, CRA) is a strong positive — the firm hires laterally from peers regularly.

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Quantify impact, but be honest about your contribution

Quantify impact, but be honest about your contribution. Use 'I' or 'my' framing where you owned the work, and use 'team' or 'we' where you supported it. Analysis Group interviewers are quick to probe ownership: 'You wrote you ran the analysis — walk me through the code.' If you cannot defend a bullet, take it off the resume.

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One page for Analyst-level, two pages maximum for PhD Associates

One page for Analyst-level, two pages maximum for PhD Associates. The firm reads resumes carefully but quickly. Use a standard, single-column layout in a serif or clean sans-serif font (Times, Garamond, Calibri, Arial). Avoid graphics, charts, photos, two-column formats, and color other than black and a single accent. iCIMS parses cleanly when the format is conservative and breaks when it is creative.

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Always submit a tailored cover letter

Always submit a tailored cover letter. Many candidates skip this or use a generic template; Analysis Group reads cover letters and uses them as a tiebreaker. The cover letter should answer three questions in three short paragraphs: why economic consulting (not management consulting, not finance), why Analysis Group specifically (cite the practice you want to work in and why), and why you are credible for this role (one or two specific quantitative achievements). Generic 'I am passionate about consulting' letters are filtered out at the recruiter level.

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Be precise about your right to work and visa status

Be precise about your right to work and visa status. Analysis Group sponsors H-1B visas for many Associate hires (PhD economists in particular) and selectively for Analyst-level roles, but the firm is upfront about visa decisions during recruiting. State your status clearly on the application; do not hide it and surface it later. Honesty here is rewarded.

ATS System: iCIMS

Analysis Group uses iCIMS Talent Cloud for all external hiring, hosted at careers-analysisgroup.icims.com (the public-facing URL careers.analysisgroup.com redirects to the iCIMS site). iCIMS is one of the most widely deployed enterprise applicant tracking systems in the United States, and the candidate experience at Analysis Group is a fairly standard iCIMS implementation: create a candidate account, upload a resume for parsing, manually correct any parser errors in the structured Experience and Education sections, upload required supporting documents (cover letter, transcript, writing sample where applicable), answer a series of screening questions including U.S. EEO/voluntary self-identification questions, and submit. iCIMS preserves your profile across applications inside the same firm, so once you have created a profile you can apply to additional Analysis Group roles without re-entering your work history. The Analysis Group implementation supports application from desktop and mobile, but the document-upload and writing-sample workflow is markedly easier on desktop. iCIMS does not share candidate data with other firms (your Analysis Group iCIMS profile does not transfer to other iCIMS clients such as Capital One or Whirlpool), and the firm's recruiters see structured field data rather than raw resume text when filtering — so completing every section of the application matters more than just uploading a strong resume. The system performs basic keyword matching against the job description for required skills and tools, and Analysis Group's recruiters layer in human review of cover letters, transcripts, and writing samples before any candidate is forwarded to the hiring committee.

  • Use a single-column PDF resume in a standard font (Times New Roman, Garamond, Arial, Calibri, or Helvetica). Avoid tables, text boxes, headers/footers, multi-column layouts, photos, and graphics — iCIMS parses single-column linear documents cleanly and corrupts complex layouts.
  • Upload your resume first, let iCIMS parse it, then go through each parsed field and manually correct errors. Date formats (especially European DD/MM/YYYY), accented characters, and concurrent positions are common parser failure points.
  • Complete every structured section: Education (with GPA where strong), Employment, Skills, Languages, and References. Recruiters filter on these structured fields, not on resume text.
  • Upload a tailored cover letter as a separate PDF. Do not paste it into a text box; the formatting will be destroyed.
  • Upload an unofficial transcript as a separate PDF for Analyst and Associate applications. Send the official transcript later if you receive an offer; do not delay your application waiting for an official copy.
  • If a writing sample is requested, choose a piece you wrote alone (not a co-authored paper), no longer than 10 pages, in PDF, with your name on it. Academic papers, working papers, senior theses, and policy memos all qualify; class essays are weaker.
  • Answer every screening question, including the optional EEO/self-identification ones. iCIMS treats unanswered optional questions as a low-effort signal in some workflows.
  • Apply to no more than one or two offices and one or two roles. Mass applications across the firm are flagged by recruiters and signal poor fit.
  • Save your iCIMS login credentials. The firm will email you status updates and Superday scheduling links through the same account, and re-creating an account mid-process creates a duplicate that delays scheduling.

Interview Culture

Interviewing at Analysis Group is a deliberate, multi-stage examination of three things: whether you can do the analytical work, whether you can communicate technical results to non-technical audiences (lawyers, judges, regulators, executives), and whether you will fit a partnership-track culture that prizes technical pride and collaborative argumentation over hierarchy or showmanship. The interview style is a hybrid of academic and consulting. You will be asked behavioral questions about teamwork, leadership, and conflict — but the bar for credibility on these questions is high, and 'I demonstrated leadership by organizing a study group' is not a serious answer at the Associate level. You will also be asked technical questions that are closer to a PhD oral exam than to an MBB case, especially as you advance through the rounds. For Analyst candidates, the first-round technical interview is usually a single mini-case combined with a few targeted technical questions. Typical first-round cases include: 'A pharmaceutical company is being sued for monopolizing a drug market — how would you measure damages?', 'Two airlines want to merge — what data would you ask for and what tests would you run?', or 'A health insurer claims a hospital overcharged for a procedure — walk me through how you'd evaluate that claim.' You are not expected to know the actual antitrust or healthcare law; you are expected to think structurally, identify what economic concept is at issue (market definition, but-for analysis, regression-based damages, propensity-score matching), and walk through your approach calmly. Interviewers will push back on assumptions to see whether you cave or hold your ground with reasoning. The right move is to engage the pushback substantively, update where the pushback is correct, and defend where it is not — not to capitulate immediately or argue defensively. For PhD Associate candidates, the technical bar is much higher. Expect a focused presentation of your job-market paper followed by 30-to-45 minutes of aggressive but respectful questioning on identification, data, robustness, and external validity. Interviewers — themselves PhD economists, often from the same dissertation committees and conferences as the candidate — will probe your standard-error clustering, your choice of instruments, your covariate balance, your sample selection, and your reduced-form versus structural choices. They will ask what you would do differently if you were starting the project today, and what extension you are most interested in. The right tone is the tone you would use at a top-five economics seminar: honest about limitations, confident about contributions, willing to argue when you are right. The Superday format runs four to six interviews back-to-back, with a brief lunch or coffee break in the middle. Each interview is 45 to 60 minutes. The mix typically includes one behavioral interview with a Manager or Vice President, two technical case interviews with Vice Presidents or Principals (often from different practice areas to test breadth), one fit conversation with a Principal or Managing Principal, and one informal lunch or coffee with a junior staffer. The case interviews at Superday level are noticeably harder than at the first round: expect a longer fact pattern, more ambiguity, and explicit pressure to put a number on something with limited information. Expect the interviewers to compare notes between rounds — by the third or fourth interview, the interviewer will already have a sense of where the prior rounds went and will probe the areas where they think you are weakest. Behavioral questions at Analysis Group are not generic. Expect: 'Describe a time you disagreed with a senior person and how it was resolved,' 'Tell me about an analytical project where the data did not support the conclusion you originally believed,' 'When have you had to explain something technical to a non-technical audience and what did you change about your approach,' and 'Describe a project that took longer than you expected — what happened and what did you do.' The firm is screening for intellectual honesty, willingness to argue with senior people from a position of evidence, and the patience to do careful work under deadline pressure. Candidates who recite scripted STAR-format answers without substance do poorly. Candidates who tell a real story with a real specific failure or trade-off do well. Dress is business professional for Superdays in all U.S. offices: suit, conservative shoes, minimal accessories. Business casual is acceptable for a remote first-round interview but lean formal if in doubt. The Boston, New York, and Washington offices in particular skew formal, reflecting the firm's deep relationships with major law firms. Bring multiple printed copies of your resume and (for Associates) your job-market paper, even though the interviewers will already have them. Arrive 10 to 15 minutes early; the firm notices.

What Analysis Group Looks For

  • Technical depth in econometrics and statistics — comfort with regression analysis, causal inference (instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, propensity-score methods), panel data, and large microdata. Coursework grades and RA experience are concrete proof; enthusiasm without evidence is not.
  • Programming fluency in Stata, R, Python, or SAS — and ideally more than one. The firm increasingly works with claims data, transaction data, and large datasets that benefit from Python or R, but Stata remains the lingua franca for many practices. SQL and version control (Git) are increasingly expected for newer roles.
  • Writing quality — Analysis Group's deliverables are long-form expert reports, declarations, and memos, not slides. Candidates who can write a clear, precise, well-structured technical paragraph have a significant advantage. The cover letter and the requested writing sample are read carefully for this reason.
  • Intellectual honesty and willingness to defend conclusions under pressure — interviewers explicitly test whether you can hold a position when challenged, update gracefully when wrong, and acknowledge uncertainty without losing credibility. This matters because your work will be cross-examined by opposing economists in deposition.
  • Curiosity about the underlying domain — antitrust, securities, IP, healthcare economics, energy policy, or technology IP. Candidates who have read at least one major case in the practice they're applying to (or one major academic paper by a firm-affiliated expert) signal genuine interest and routinely interview better.
  • Comfort with long-form, deadline-driven analytical projects — engagements at Analysis Group commonly last six months to several years, and the work intensity climbs sharply around expert-report deadlines, depositions, and trials. Candidates who want fast project rotation or short engagements are mismatched.
  • Quality of judgment in messy data — the work is rarely about running a textbook regression on a clean dataset. It is about deciding which observations to drop, how to handle missing values, how to address outliers, and how to defend each of those choices. Candidates who show judgment, not just technique, stand out.
  • Collaboration with PhD economists and academic experts — the firm's senior leverage model relies on academic experts who serve as testifying witnesses. Candidates who can engage with academic-style argument, anticipate what an expert will need to defend a result, and treat the expert as a peer rather than as a client tend to thrive.
  • Sustained work ethic — long hours during deadlines are real, and the firm screens for candidates who can carry that load without burning out in twelve months. Honest discussion of how you have handled past intense periods is more credible than promises about the future.
  • Quiet ambition — Analysis Group's promotion track is long (eight to twelve years from Analyst to partnership-equivalent), and the firm rewards consistent technical excellence over performative striving. Candidates who position themselves as 'future Principal in three years' read as poorly calibrated. Candidates who position themselves as 'I want to do excellent work and grow with it' read as serious.

Frequently Asked Questions

What ATS does Analysis Group use?
Analysis Group uses iCIMS Talent Cloud, hosted at careers-analysisgroup.icims.com. The public-facing URL careers.analysisgroup.com redirects to the iCIMS site. Candidates create an iCIMS account, upload a resume for parsing, complete the structured Education and Experience sections, upload supporting documents (cover letter, transcript, and writing sample where required) as separate PDFs, and answer screening and EEO questions before submitting. The firm reads cover letters and writing samples carefully, and recruiters filter on the structured iCIMS fields rather than on raw resume text — so completing every section thoroughly matters.
Is Analysis Group a management consulting firm like McKinsey?
No. Analysis Group is a pure-play economic and financial consulting firm, not a management consultancy. The work is built around supporting attorneys, regulators, government agencies, and corporate clients on matters that hinge on rigorous quantitative analysis: antitrust and competition cases, securities and IP litigation, merger reviews, healthcare economics and outcomes research, energy and environment cases, and technology IP disputes. The firm's direct peers are Cornerstone Research, NERA Economic Consulting, Charles River Associates (CRA), Compass Lexecon, The Brattle Group, and Edgeworth Economics. Analysis Group does not sell C-suite strategy advisory, digital transformation, or implementation work, and it does not compete head-to-head with McKinsey, BCG, or Bain except on the rare engagement that calls for both.
What is the promotion track at Analysis Group?
The standard promote-from-within track runs Analyst (undergraduate, master's, or pre-PhD entry) → Associate (PhD economist or MBA entry) → Manager → Vice President → Principal → Managing Principal. The full path from Analyst to partnership-equivalent (Principal) typically takes eight to twelve years, depending on practice area, performance, and whether the Analyst goes back for a PhD or MBA mid-track. PhD Associates entering directly from a doctoral program can reach Principal in roughly six to ten years. Lateral senior hires from peer firms or industry can negotiate accelerated paths, often two to four years shorter, with equity participation negotiated at hire.
Does Analysis Group sponsor work visas?
Yes, selectively. Analysis Group routinely sponsors H-1B visas for PhD Associate hires (where the PhD plus quantitative role generally qualifies under the specialty-occupation criteria) and is one of the larger H-1B sponsors among economic consulting firms. For Analyst-level hires, sponsorship is more selective and depends on the office, the role, and the year's H-1B lottery dynamics. The firm is upfront about visa decisions during recruiting and expects candidates to disclose their work authorization status truthfully on the iCIMS application. The London, Paris, Brussels, Montreal, Beijing, and Shanghai offices have separate hiring and immigration processes governed by local law.
What are the hours really like at Analysis Group?
Hours vary significantly by practice and project phase. Steady-state weeks for Analysts and Associates are typically 50 to 60 hours. During active expert-report deadlines, depositions, and trial preparation, weeks of 60 to 80 hours are routine, and the heaviest crunch periods — usually a few times per year per project — can push higher. The litigation calendar drives most of the intensity: when an expert report is due in three weeks, the team works to that deadline. Weekend work is common in those windows. Between deadlines the pace genuinely eases. The firm is honest about this in recruiting and does not market itself as a balanced lifestyle employer for junior staff.
Do I need a PhD to work at Analysis Group?
No. Analyst roles are open to candidates with a bachelor's or master's degree (most commonly in economics, statistics, applied mathematics, public policy, computer science, or a related quantitative field), and the firm hires hundreds of Analysts each year. A PhD is required for direct entry as an Associate and is generally required for promotion beyond Manager into Vice President and Principal. Some Analysts leave the firm to complete a PhD or MBA and return as Associates; the firm has formal sponsorship programs to support this for high performers. MBAs (without a PhD) can also enter as Associates in certain practice areas, particularly healthcare and finance, but the long-term track to partnership for non-PhD Associates is harder and less common.
What is the case interview like at Analysis Group?
Case interviews at Analysis Group are noticeably different from MBB management-consulting cases. The fact patterns are typically drawn from real practice areas — antitrust merger review, damages calculation in a securities or IP case, a healthcare reimbursement dispute, an energy market manipulation question — and you are evaluated on whether you identify the right economic framework (market definition, but-for analysis, regression-based damages, event study, propensity-score matching, and so on), whether you can structure the analysis with the data that would actually be available, and whether you can defend your approach when challenged. You are not expected to know the law or the institutional details; you are expected to reason economically. Interviewers will push back on your assumptions on purpose, and the right move is to engage substantively, update where the pushback is correct, and hold ground where it is not. Mathematical literacy (basic regression interpretation, log-log elasticity, present value, and standard significance levels) is assumed.
How does Analysis Group's compensation compare to MBB and to other economic consulting firms?
Within the economic-consulting peer set, Analysis Group is consistently top-quartile on total compensation — competitive with Cornerstone Research and Compass Lexecon, generally above NERA, Charles River Associates (CRA), and The Brattle Group at the Analyst and Associate levels. Compared to MBB management consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Bain), Analysis Group's base salary is roughly comparable at Analyst and entry Associate levels but slightly below at the senior Associate and Manager levels, and bonuses tend to be smaller. Total compensation is also less variable than at MBB because there is no large up-or-out signing-bonus inflation. Senior-level compensation (Vice President, Principal, Managing Principal) is highly partner-dependent and includes equity participation through the firm's partner-ownership structure. The trade-off is well understood inside the industry: Analysis Group pays slightly less than MBB at the middle of the pyramid in exchange for more technical depth and a longer, more stable promotion track.
Where are Analysis Group's offices?
Headquarters is at 111 Huntington Avenue in Boston. Other U.S. offices are in New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, Menlo Park, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Denver. International offices are in Montreal, London, Paris, Brussels, Beijing, and Shanghai. Boston, New York, and Washington carry the largest hiring volumes, with strong programs in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles as well. The U.K. and continental European offices recruit on a local cycle and require strong English plus, in many cases, a working knowledge of French (Paris, Brussels, Montreal) or Mandarin (Beijing, Shanghai). All offices share the firm's iCIMS application portal and central hiring standards, but each runs its own Superday and recruits from regionally relevant universities.
How is Analysis Group different from Cornerstone Research and NERA?
All three are leading economic-consulting firms with deep antitrust and litigation practices, and on any given engagement they are often direct bidders against each other. The differences are matters of culture, practice mix, and ownership structure rather than core capability. Cornerstone Research is most associated with high-stakes securities litigation (especially class actions) and has a particularly strong relationship with academic experts at Stanford, Chicago, and other top schools. NERA is the longest-established (founded 1961) and historically strongest in regulatory and rate-case work alongside antitrust. Analysis Group is privately partner-owned with no outside investors, has the broadest practice mix among the three (with healthcare economics and IP particularly strong alongside antitrust and securities), and is the largest by headcount of the three. Compensation, hours, and selectivity are roughly comparable across all three at junior levels. Candidates who interview at Analysis Group should also expect to be considered at Cornerstone, NERA, and CRA simultaneously, and the firms know it.
What does Analysis Group's healthcare practice actually do?
The healthcare practice — one of the firm's six largest — covers health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), real-world evidence, retrospective claims-data analysis, economic modeling for payer submissions, market access strategy, pricing and reimbursement work, and litigation involving pharmaceutical companies, medical-device manufacturers, hospitals, and payers. Clients include the major U.S. and global pharmaceutical companies, large medical-device companies, hospital systems, payers, and government agencies. The work uses large administrative datasets (Medicare and Medicaid claims, commercial claims databases such as Optum and IQVIA, electronic health records, and registry data) and applies econometric and statistical methods to questions about treatment effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, treatment patterns, and disease burden. The practice is one of the leading employers of fresh PhD economists with health-economics specializations and one of the largest non-academic producers of HEOR studies published in journals such as Value in Health, JAMA, and the Journal of Managed Care + Specialty Pharmacy.
Will I work directly with academic experts at Analysis Group?
Yes, almost continuously. The firm's business model relies on testifying experts who are typically named-chair professors, former federal-agency chief economists, Nobel laureates, and other academic luminaries. Junior Analysts and Associates support the experts directly: building the data, running the regressions, drafting sections of the expert report, preparing exhibits for deposition and trial, and joining preparation sessions. The day-to-day exposure to top economists is one of the strongest reasons candidates take the job — and one of the strongest reasons they stay. The cultural expectation is to treat the expert as a respected academic peer with a deep technical agenda, not as a client to be managed. Candidates who can engage substantively with an expert (anticipate the questions, push back gently when the analysis suggests a different conclusion, and produce work the expert can defend in deposition) advance fastest.
Does Analysis Group hire from non-target schools?
Yes, regularly. The firm formally recruits at a long list of target undergraduate and PhD programs and runs information sessions on those campuses each fall. But Analysis Group also hires a meaningful share of Analyst and Associate classes from non-target schools through direct iCIMS applications and through referrals. The bar for non-target candidates is meaningfully higher: stronger GPA, stronger demonstrated quantitative work (RA-ships, theses, working papers, programming portfolios), and stronger writing samples are typically required to compensate for the lack of on-campus presence. Candidates from non-target schools who network proactively — attending a virtual information session, reaching out to a recent Analyst alum, requesting a coffee chat with a Manager in the practice they want — convert at materially higher rates than those who only apply through the portal.

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