I applied online. I interviewed at GEICO (Washington, DC) in Apr 2021
Interview
Alright, I don’t usually write reviews but I am writing this to save people time and trouble. I am an insurance professional and I applied for this position. They first will send you a questionnaire of why you are interested in geico and would be a good fit for the position. Then you will take an aptitude test. It’s interactive. Not multiple choice. It tests logic and mathematical/quantitative reasoning. Similar to the GRE not the SAT. It’s best to study percentage increases/decreases. Fraction conversion. Logic - arrangements. It’s a timed test and you only have 18 minutes for each test. It is the SHL test which a lot of companies use to test a candidate’s maximum aptitude. Job test prep has good resources to prepare for this. This seems to be a vital component of the hiring process because as I said before I have prior insurance experience in multiple departments and I did not make it past this round.
Through a lot of research of the interviews reviews you should know a couple things if you make it past this round (although I did not this is just what I collected) 1. What do you know about geico (learn the history and key milestone and stats, how many vehicles insure, premium IF, ceo, owns parent company : Warren Buffet etc) 2. Benefits of being a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway 3. The pros and cons of direct marketing (i would look into how geico does this effectively too) 4. What factors going into pricing premium (this could mean in terms of loss reserves or underwriting risk factors) seem to be common questions over the past couple of years.
If you are not an insurance professional I would suggest looking at iii.org at statistics and further understanding of the market and how insurance companies determine premium and have a better understanding of that type of data and trends.
I hope this helps anyone applying for the role as I found that they do not care about product knowledge as much as they care about your aptitude test. Additionally, in hindsight if you are able to get a doctors note for any additional time due to disabilities I would try that too. That 18 minutes goes quick.
Good luck!
3 Rounds. Phone Screen -> Excel Test -> 3 panel interview. All of it was pretty ok. Takes a lot of learning to understand the insurance-specific terminology. Overall, wasn't too hard.
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Question 1
Case-based questions to see basic business knowledge.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at GEICO (Home, KS) in Sept 2021
Interview
**Do ñot apply for this position**
Applied for this position over a month ago and wanted to work in the January class. Process is: application —> questionnaire —> logical/math test —> phone interview —> analytical assessment done on Excel (not an Excel test) —> final round super day. I made it all the way to the super day after jumping through these 15 hoops. Honestly shocked I made it to the end. Keep in mind that the recruiter keeps constantly reposting this job on LinkedIn and on their LinkedIn profile like they desperately need people. Guess they don’t. They rushed the process along. It was pretty much one activity a week on top of schoolwork and applying for other jobs. Flash forward to the super day and I aced all three interviews. The first interviewer said I would make a great fit. Analytical interview said I did well. The last interview was with a guy as enthusiastic as my thumb and was hard to read. I asked him if there’s any skills I need to work on to be successful and he said I was fine and there’s not really anything to work on. Really nothing wrong with the interview at all. HR will not give feedback in this day and age, so I went through all this for 5 weeks with little to no negatives and got an automated rejection email late in the night. My guess after seeing the current people that work there is that they have a tendency to hire only èthñic people. If you are not èthñic, forget it. I had a referral put in a good word for me last minute and still got rejected. Giant waste of time and everyone in the process agreed it was a mutual fit between them and me. If you are currently at the last round and don’t hear back within 2 days, you got rejected. The closer you get to a week, forget it. Interview elsewhere or have a backup because they have some backward hiring practices.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at GEICO (Chevy Chase, MD) in June 2021
Interview
First, let me tell you this process is unnecessarily long. I applied via LinkedIn and was told to fill out a questionnaire similar to the application but with longer answers relating to my goals and why I'd be a good fit for the position.
After that, I was sent an SHL assessment which tested my ability to set calendar meetings and how long tasks would take. It was not very difficult, and there were practice tests. Then I had a phone interview which lasted about one hour. The person asked behavioral and insurance-related case or scenario questions. The process followed with an excel assessment. I only made it to the Excel test, and up to this point, it had been a month since the process had started. Had I made it further I would've had three more rounds of interviews. I thought HR was nice until I got rejected by an automated email at midnight, which I thought was rude because I didn't receive any feedback, and I was invested in the process. Anyway, by this point, I had accepted a position elsewhere.