I applied directly for this role on their website, and the next day, I was invited for an in-person group interview at the Princeton, NJ office to be held the following week (Mar 2026). They gave a typical HR-style presentation on the company and its culture (~1hr), and they seemed to be evaluating who was asking questions during this portion. Then, they each gave us a different printout of some slides to review for 15min, where we were tasked to give a 4min presentation as if we were the consultant working on that particular project. A week later, they notified me via email that I am not moving forward in the interview process. Their feedback was that they appreciated me asking questions, but that I didn't clarify something in the presentation.

It was a group style IN PERSON interview, the only thing they asked each of us was when we can start and what role we applied to. They then presented about the company and allowed us to ask questions. After this we were each given slides of previous projects and had 15 minutes to prepare them, then each had 4 minutes to present in front of everyone and that was it. Got an email after following up claiming I never asked any questions when I asked several during the interview