I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Deutsche Bank (Pune) in Sep 2015
Interview
It was an interview drive in Pune. I reached early morning, right on time as per the slot given to me, only to find out many others with 14-18 years of experience already waiting for their first round. The HR didn't bother to ask coffee or water, and when enquired how long it would take to get my first round, they kept on saying "just wait". That "just" wait went on for 5 hours, and finally I got my 15 minute screening round on VC with some guy sitting in Bangalore. Would you believe it? Extremely mismanaged. There were around 50 candidates for VP, and 60% didn't even know if they were the right fit for the job. Some had program management background, Some had product management with no development experience, while some others had technical management background. When probed further, I found out that these are common scenes during their drives.
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1. Tell me about you. 2. Challenging situations 3. What do you expect from the company.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Deutsche Bank (Londres, Inglaterra) in Sep 2020
Interview
Internal Recruiter called and then send a phone interview few weeks later and then other several interviews. Very unprofessional process completely non-communicative. If you call the internal recruiter he behaved as if he has been put out. No response to emails no feedback.
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Haphazard except for 1 interview. I didn't feel if they had any respect for candidate's time and effort. They comfortably ghost candidates. I would say stay away as I am not sure if they are serious about hiring. They claim they move fast but they do not progress at all.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Deutsche Bank (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2018
Interview
Everyone was really nice and precise. I had one interviewer who took a stress test and was kinda dick-ish, but most of the others were friendly and valued the skill set I bring to the table.
A major part of the interview is a Virtual Conference with other offices, so be mentally prepared for that. I haven't started working there but hoping to have a great global and diverse experience!
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Question 1
Why would you like to work for Deutsche Bank? Why now?
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Deutsche Bank (Pune) in Dec 2017
Interview
The interview process was written programming test(1 hr) followed by 2-3 F2F rounds. We came to know from HR after asking many times. There were about 15 odd people for this scheduled drive and all seemed to have come from the same consultancy. Initially the consultancy told that there will be no written and then after going there they asked everyone to take the test.
Written Test - 2 question papers having 3 questions each. You need to first select the question paper and then solve one out of 3 questions. God knows which Einstein this rocket procedure. A single question paper with 6 questions and then have candidates solve any 1 would have worked.
It was clearly written that evaluation will be based on design, logic, code coverage and data modelling.
Interview - After 2 hours of writing the test they called for interview. The person taking interview had just stepped in the office and knew nothing about the questions or the process. I explained him that. Someone talk about professionalism !! Then he started poking holes in my design in the most rude and pompous way. He started saying how he knew the CEOs of some tech companies and what great technologies he was using. He mentioned some technologies which I had never heard - Arjuna framework, XA protocol, Distributed Tx mgmt products, CPU cores and threads, pub-sub, etc. To every answer he used to laugh and giggle in an insulting way. He did not even check my code coverage for JUnit test, logic and data modelling. BTW the position was for Apachec Spark + Python which was there on my resume. But not a single question on it.
It was clear that the questions were designed for Failure and not Selection.
Later checked with many people and turned out that due to their unfriendly (rather humiliating) behaviour no one seems to come to DB for interviews anymore.
Had I knew this earlier I would have chosen to spend my saturday in peace :-)
Advice to Candidates - Be prepared for sledging and humiliation if you go for interviews to Pune office.