I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (New York, NY) in Jul 2017
Interview
A phone screen, a multi-day coding challenge, implied presentation and interview (didn't make it to this stage). The phone screen was brief and behavioral, followed by a business case coding challenge using various SQL commands. It seemed geared towards exploring business acumen along with engineering skills.
I applied online. I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Chicago, IL)
Interview
Oh wow...where to begin? First of all, I was contacted for an initial phone interview. I rearranged my schedule to have this phone interview. After waiting on the phone (I had to dial into a number), I received an email that they needed to reschedule to the next business day (Reschedule #1) . The next business day, in the morning, I again rearranged my schedule to have this call, and minutes before the call they asked to move the call to the end of the day (Reschedule #2). Come the end of the day, again after rearranging everything to have this call, I get an email that they mistakenly meant the next day instead of today for this rescheduled call, so the call would have to be moved to the next day (Reschedule #3). At this point I'm very frustrated and can't afford to keep arranging my schedule for all of thsee call attemps. Honestly, of this was any other company, I wouldn't have even continued with the process after all the rescheduling.
Finally, we had our call and on the call she asked that if I had any other jobs that were moving along faster than this one that I would be transparent and let them know. She said she would send me an email requesting writing samples. Days later I received this email, only after letting her know that I was expecting an offer from another company. Days later after sending in my writing samples I got a generic rejection.
I'd wish that if they're asking me to let them know we need to move the process that they'd also understand I need to be kept in the loop as well, instead of just receiving a generic rejection days later.
After this experience, I wouldn't apply here again in the future or recommend that anyone else does.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What skills from your previous post ions make you a good fit?
I applied online. I interviewed at Boston Consulting Group (Düsseldorf) in Jan 2017
Interview
Zuerst hat man mit dem Personalreferent gesprochen, danach wurden Kolleginnen vorgestellt, die dieselbe Tätigkeit schon länger ausführen.
Es war ein sehr angenehmes Gespräch in einer netten Atmosphäre! Zwischendurch wurde ins Englische gewechselt, damit man sehen konnte, wie schnell man umschalten kann, und wie man damit umgeht!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was war das schönes Erlebnis in ihrem Leben? Was sind ihre Stärken? Motivation sich dort zu bewerben? Was würde jetziger/ vorheriger Vorgesetzter als Ihre Schwäche bezeichnen?