I applied online in March'17. The whole interview process was very confusing. To start with they sent me an automated mail initially that they won't be going forward with my application. Then 2 weeks later I receive an email from HR stating that they would like to set up an interview with the Director of the team.
The first round of interview was with Director. He stated that this is not an interview but an informal chat to discuss about the role and my expectations. He then stated that I will need to complete and online assessment test before we connect later. The HR sent me the links for the test. It was multiple choice questions based aptitude test. After finishing those, I received a mail from the HR that I have passed the test and that they would like to schedule an interview with the Director with me again. On the day of the interview, the Director messaged me on Skype that he would send me a task and would like me to complete it and that I can take 1-2 days to finish it and we could schedule an interview later. I received no task details by the end of the day. The next day I messaged the HR and the Director if there was any issue. They said that he is not well and will get back to me later when he recovers.
After 2 weeks I received an email that the interview process has been changes and that there will be 3 rounds of interviews with 3 different people across the organisation.
The so called 1st round was with another Analyst in the team. The questions were related to my experience, my past jobs and a short case scenario. After 2 days I received an email that they would like to schedule the next round.
The 2nd round was with the head of Data science team. Again the questions were quite similar to my previous round.
The 3rd round was scheduled 1 month later with the Director of another team. I was told that he is very busy and they are not able to find free time in his calendar. The interview looked quite rushed. He did not know with whom I interviewed before. He asked me about my SQL knowledge, whereas in Job description it was not mentioned about the proficiency of SQL. He aslo asked me a puzzle. The kind of questions looked like what you would expect from a fresher with no experience.
After 3 days, I received an automated mail that they are going forward with another candidate.
I was quite disappointed with the duration of the process and the choice of interviewers. The whole process very poorly managed.
