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Updated Mar 7, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Account Administrator at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina
Posted Mar 7, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 (took 3 days)
Applied for the postion and received a response within 3 days for an interview. After the interview, I received a call back about a week later with a job offer.
Interview Questions
Negotiation Details
Negotiating is always great. Dont accept the first offer without asking if there is a possible increase available. It is either a "Yes" or "No" answer.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Claims Processor at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina
Posted Nov 12, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Surfside Beach, SC (took 1 week)
This was my second attempt to work for this company, in which I currently work for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC. I originally applied online, directly through the companies website, in which I had a search agent set up to send me daily notifications of new jobs posted. After applying you can check your apprlication status on their website www.bcbssc.com, under the career section. "Applied" indicates that they received your application, but its just stitting there with God only knows how many other applicants in the "death pool". "Under consideration" indicates that not only have they received your resume, but it matches the qualifications of their interest. A couple of days later, the hr rep contacts me via phone, asking me0 about my experience and salary requirements. I thoroughly gave him all this information, but when I told him my salary requirements he laughed, and proceeded to tell me that this position only pays 9.21 per hour, and that its non negotiable. I have a degree in finance, but even if I didnt i wouldnt take this job for that pay, trust me i process claims and its very time consuming and tidious, so unless your just jobless and hopeless, move on people because this isnt what you want. I did pursue to the scheduled testing on their job site, which let me tell you, I completed within 30 minutes of the alloted 90 minutes i was given. My six year old son could have completed this errononeous test just as fast, in which none of the test even applied to what youd actually be doing on a daily basis. Once completed, they take you in a room, and the first people called out are the angels who survived the death pool, in which the ones left behind are the ones who drowned. They will notifiy that they want a second interview with you that same week, in which you will meet with two managers. I then declined this offer, it was just to big of a joke for me. $9.21 per hour and your scanning me through your complex hriing process as if this is even comparable to a salaried position? Trust me people, if it was worth it, Id tell you.. Yes I work for Blue Cross of NC, but each company is its own entity, therefore theres no transfer or comparison as a company worldwide, they each make their own rules according to the state. My intentions arent to discourage anyone from taking this position, but only to inform you of its operations and to encourage you of taking a risk for guaranteed better opportunities out there. No i dont make alot of money, about $40,000-$45,000 per year, but Ive earned every penny of it and will continue to push for more. This is fortune 500 company im bloggin, and yet they want to pay their claims processors $19,000 per year, not happening.
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Reason for Declining
The pay and the atmosphere of the workplace is the main reason i chose to decline this offer. As described in my interview comments, there is better pay out there. If you are going to take a job at this pay, please make sure its something not so stressful and demanding.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Senior Programmer Analyst at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina
Posted Aug 25, 2010
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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 Aug 2010 in Columbia, SC (took 3 weeks)
PHone Interview was re-scheduled. On the new date, someone dropped the ball on scheduling the time, so the phone interview was 40 minutes late.
There was 3 people on the other end. All managers I believe.
This was the first time, someone asked to do some coding.
I did at least pass the background check.
Interview Questions
1. what's a S0C4, S0C7 Abend
2. explain the difference between static call and a dynamic call - which is better and why?
3. what's the difference between comp and comp-3?
4. how many positions does 9(4) comp represent?
5. how many positions does 9(8) comp-3 represent?
B. JCL
1. what does a 'cond=even', represent
2. explain the difference between a JOBLIB and STEPLIB statement - which one takes precedence?
3. explain temp files in Job streams. how do you code for those?
4. dataset concatenation (bypassing a specific dataset)
5. What does the 'MOD' statement do?
6. What is a GDG and explain it's use in a Job stream.
C. CICS
1. what's the difference between a Link command and a XCTL command?
2. how do you pass data between 2 CICS programs.
3. name the different ways to transfer control from program to another?
4. on CICS screen how would place the cursor on specific part of the screen and make it stand out and blink?
5. what is the 'deadly embrace' and how would you code around it, in order to avoid it.?
6. what is the difference between TDQ and TSQ ? how would you code for each?
7. when does the values of the TDQ, TSQ go away?
D. FTP
1. how do you allow the transmission of data from client to another, when there are packed data fields in the file?
The first VSAM file contains 1 million records, where member # is the key field and has name and address information.
The second VSAM file contains 1,000 provider records (doctors) and provider # is the key.
Read both VSAM files and Produce a report where one line contains the member information, in last name order.
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Background Check.
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IT at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina
Posted Jul 21, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2008 (took a day)
Very casual
Negotiation Details
I negotiated a sign-on bonus, but this is rare
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Data Preparation Tech at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina
Posted Jun 21, 2010
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 in Columbia, SC (took 3 months)
I was hired on in house and it took very long for them to hire me on as permanent. I started out temp with kelly services. They ask me basic interview questions. What are my strengths? What are my weaknesses, etc. why do i want this job, what can i contribute?
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Other Details
I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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IT Support at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina
Posted Jan 28, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 in Columbia, SC (took a day)
will update later
Interview Questions
Negotiation Details
transfer no real negotiation
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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