The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Discover (Riverwoods, IL) in Jul 2010
Interview
Very standard questions. The phone interview is mainly conducted by hiring manager. The 1:1 on site interview is quite standard, basically needs to cover all your experience and you should be excited for the new job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Here are two spreadsheets. Can you get through this quickly and tell me what do you think about the data? And where do you want to dig deeper to know more informaiton?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Discover (Riverwoods, IL) in May 2008
Interview
Interview process was very speedy. Also was interviewing with competing banks. Discover beat the other companies to the punch and got the entire process done in almost a week: from first contact to offer letter in almost 8 business days.
Interview schedule was glitched up. They were placed too close to my flight time. The entire transport was arranged by Discover and they had scheduled my interview too close to my in and out flights. HR recruiter guy was a monkey and showed up in a sweatshirt to receive me. Never seen a less professional guy in my career. Lied about my visa application and I had to get help from my SVP to get the company to deliver on the promises they had made to me. Luckily I got his verbal promises to me in writing via email - he declined to include that in his offer letter.
Outside of that the process was smooth and very expected.
Round 1: Phone screen by HR and phone interview by hiring manager and panel.
Round 2: 3 or 4 technical interviews. Average difficulty.
Work culture is very family oriented. Benefits were quite good especially tuition program (now measly).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If we made an offer how will your company react? Under what circumstances will you not join us?