Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies Interview Questions & Reviews
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Updated Apr 27, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Human Resources at Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies
Posted Apr 27, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 4 weeks)
No phone screen, hiring manager called to schedule an inperson interview. Interview went quite well - said she was interviewing 8-12 people. Called back 2 days later let me know I'd made the next round. I was asked to complete an online IQ /personality test. After this (and about 2 weeks later) scheduled for an inperson interview, panel with HR staff, and 1:1 with 2 different VPs. Also told there would be testing: an HR situational test (fine), a vocabulary test (okay?), and a math test (whaaa?) where you cannot use a calculator and includes fractions and square roots. How this relates to HR I have no idea.
Interviews went okay. One of the VPs was quite quirky and I felt the entire conversation was a trap. I was not informed ahead of time that all the testing was TIMED! 10 minutes for 20 math problems? Oh no.
Two weeks later (!) I received an email from a generic HR email account telling me that they were no longer interested. So incredibly rude after all I'd been through - weeks of cramming on math tests for no one to personally call me back.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Claims Adjuster at Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies
Posted Apr 25, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in Omaha, NE (took a day)
Went to their offices in Omaha, NE for an interview. First the skills test was administered consisting of two separate tests. The first was a word associate test that had 40 questions and you were given 20 minutes to complete it. This wasn't too terrible for me.. got done with time to spare. Second was a 20 question math test in which you had 10 minutes to complete. Struggled with this as it is all pretty basic math but all long hand.. no calculator or anything. That's a lot of math to do in 10 minutes. (I honestly think this is why I wasn't offered a 2nd interview.. I hadn't done this sort of math since high school.. make sure you bone up on your math skills!!).
The interview itself was awesome.. the HR lady came in and was very, very casual and really just wanted to get to know me and just talk. She pretty much went bullet by bullet down my resume and never really asked any structured questions. A great way to really brag about your resume. Also, make sure you bring questions to ask back as that was important.
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Underwriting Assistant at Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies
Posted Apr 16, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took a day)
Interviewed 1:1 with 3 people on the same day. Lots of behavioral questions. I felt one interviewer was short, uptight and in a very bad mood.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Underwriter Trainee at Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies
Posted Jan 20, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took a day)
No phone interview. In person interview with HR Director and Underwriting Manager. Math/ Verbal test after interview. Standard behavioral questions. "Tell me about a time..."
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Marketing Assistant at Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies
Posted Apr 23, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took 4 days)
After I applied online, in a few days, I got a call from the HR person. She set up a time for phone interview. She asked if I knew what type of insurance the company sells; what do I know about the company;what three characteristics would I offer the company. Next I got an interview with the communications manager. He asked broad-ended questions. Didn't seem interested in the interview. He asked if I knew what the job would entail. Didn't get the impression that there were a lot of marketing activities going on. Didn't ask any marketing related questions.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Underwriter at Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies
Posted Mar 30, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Atlanta, GA (took a day)
Asked a lot of logic question such as: What rate would you charge for a cabin at the bottom of a mountain when there is a 70% chance of a avalanche occurring overnight. Asked questions about probability, underwriting skills, financial knowledge, knowledge of the industry. Lasted about 2 hours and was somewhat intimidating. They expected you know know a lot about the ideals of Warren Buffet and his investing strategy. It seemed like the office setting would be very competitive and cutthroat. Overall did not catch a good vibe from the interview. The interviewer was somewhat pompous and direct. Not the easiest interview that I have ever had but as long as you can do logic and probabilities on the fly, then you should be good.
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