I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Beazley Group (New York, NY)
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter first. Then, I did a preliminary video conference interview (very high-tech) and then had a face to face interview in the office. The whole process took a long time to complete since there were so many people involved.
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Question 1
I was asked a range of common interview questions, like what can yo bring to this role, what are your strengths and weaknesses, how do you handle conflict.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Beazley Group in Feb 2021
Interview
Like another review says, negative experience although it may have been the recruiter's miscommunications to me. I worked temporarily & very briefly for Beazley prior to the pandemic; at that time I was told I'd be able to work from home but a day later they let me go. A year later, my same (external) recruiter called me saying Beazley was asking if I was available to come back for this position, full-time. She gave me a salary range and everything so I perhaps wrongly assumed they were specifically asking me to come back to the role, and was pretty excited. My recruiter told me they were just setting up a phone conversation that had to happen first...the following week I spoke for 15 minutes with an awkward HR person, not a single person on the call I had worked with before was on the call. It was solely behavioral interview questions and I was caught a little off guard. I was asked, "What would you say is your greatest achievement?" And then "What would you say would be the opposite of your greatest achievement?" So I said "...like a failure?" It was just a weird conversation and sadly this person determined whether I would make it to the next stage of a job I had previously held.
After this "conversation" I called my recruiter who was up in arms, saying that a phone screen was not how they had presented it to her. She too thought they were asking me to come back.
Maybe they were trying to fill an interview candidate quota, regardless I'm not impressed, and won't try to bring my talents back here. Waste of time.
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Question 1
How do you manage conflicting priorities? How do you manage conflicting priorities when reporting to different managers? Let's go back to that. How did you say you manage time when there are conflicting priorities?
I applied online. I interviewed at Beazley Group (Chicago, IL) in June 2019
Interview
I initially had a 20 minute phone Interview and an in office video conference that lasted around an hour. The interview questions were fairly standard overall. The team was initially great to correspond with but as mentioned by another person, after the video conference it was radio silence. I completely understand if I wasn't the best fit for the role, but common courtesy would've allowed for a rejection email at that point in the process.
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Name a time when you dealt with a difficult client
I applied online. I interviewed at Beazley Group (Chicago, IL) in May 2017
Interview
I applied for the position and went through 3 rounds of interviews, first a 20 minute phone screening, then video conference call at their office, and then a series of one on one interviews back to back, each lasting about 45 minutes.
The interview questions themselves weren't difficult, and their HR department would email to check after each interview, which was nice.
Then came radio silence. I was given a day where I would hear back with next steps. The deadline passed. I reached out a few days later, and was sent a very chipper response extending the deadline.
Weeks go by, and I don't hear anything. So I'm going to go out on a limb and assume they decided to go with someone else. Which is fine except that a simple rejection email would have been nice. Especially after 3 interviews and 2 days taken off work.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What makes you uniquely qualified for this position?