An Internship at Webs by Abhishek Battacharya

How did you come across your internship at Webs?

I never actually applied to Webs. One of the recruiters from Webs looked through Careers4Terps, which is the career portal for University of Maryland (UMD), and thought that my resume was impressive. While I was an Economics major at UMD, the position I was being considered for was a Marketing Analyst internship.

My first interview was set up as a phone call interview by my recruiter. What the recruiter liked about my resume was that when he looked at the “Skills” section, there were a lot of analyst-appropriate hard skills. As a Marketing Analyst, you need skills like Google Analytics, Excel, and SQL. these are the tools that contribute to conducting the meaningful, successful analyses and recommendations for day-to-day marketing activities. My first interview was actually just a behavioral interview with standard behavioral questions. What I learned from that interview is that its not your major they are looking it, but rather on how you apply yourself in what you do. If students have a lot of opportunities to create projects for themselves, or just do projects pertaining to their field of interest in general, then answering behavioral questions become much easier.

In my second interview, I was assessed on my thinking and analytical abilities. During my second interview, I was asked to prioritize marketing projects, based on the assumptions that the hiring manger provided me about the company’s processes. I was asked to provide a solution based on a real life test that was running on the companies website. Something that I noticed from both my final round interviews from Webs, and Amazon, is that the hiring manager is really looking for the potential candidate to thoroughly explain their thinking process to see how they came to their conclusion. They’re