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Updated May 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior Business Analyst at British American Tobacco
Posted May 14, 2012
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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 Sep 2010 (took 3 weeks)
I applied for the role internally after hearing about it from a colleague. HR contacted me for the interview and had one face to face interview. As I was internally transferred, a second interview was deemed unnecessary. The hiring manager and HR Business Partner were present for the interview. The questions were not technical, more on leadership capabilities.
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Negotiation Details
HR was very strict, salary was none negotiable. I should have tried harder.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Management Trainee at British American Tobacco
Posted May 6, 2012
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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 Jul 2011 in Rome (Italy) (took 2 months)
Started off online. You get some on line assessment: one for numerical logic and one for verbal reasoning. If you pass the threshold you get a competency based phone interview that lasts 45 minutes. If you pass the phone interview you get to go to an assessment centre at their expense in a fancy hotel around Europe (my case was Rome) for 2 days. Here they engage you in: a presentation of a business case, a 1:1 interview with the manager of the area you applied for, a group assessment about a fictional business case and a personality& creativity tests. There were 14 of us and they said that they received 6000 applications so I was pretty happy to have made it to that point!
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Finance Leadership Program at British American Tobacco
Posted Apr 27, 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 2012 in Warsaw (Poland) (took 2 weeks)
Started with an online numerical&analitycal test, rather standard- like SHL test.
Then a phone interview with UK (I am from Poland), there were some behavioural and general competency questions. This interview lasted about 45 minutes and there were about 90 seconds for each question. An interviewer expects concrete answers and examples.
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Marketing MT Programmer at British American Tobacco
Posted Apr 5, 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 Jan 2012 (took a day)
Was mainly behavioral questions, including difficulties in work, challenges, why BAT, leadership skills, weaknesses and so on. Also included questions about BAT and Marketing but they were very simple and easy if you'll do some research before the interview.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Marketing at British American Tobacco
Posted Jun 9, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took 3 months)
The interview process usually takes up to 3 months (HR is very ineffective function in BAT). You will be asked to go through number of tests (some of them seem quite ridiculous and absurd). then you'll be asked to go through 5 or 6 interviews and in a few months you will hear from them....
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Management Trainee at British American Tobacco
Posted Jun 1, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Monterrey, Estado de Nuevo Leon (Mexico) (took 6+ weeks)
Online application, numerical and personality tests, interview with a third company that was running the selection proccess then interview with BAT management people then Assessment Center Day.
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Negotiation Details
Easy but you have to be really confident they love that.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Graduate Management Programmer In Finance at British American Tobacco
Posted Apr 28, 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 Apr 2011 in Warsaw (Poland) (took 4+ weeks)
I must admit that I am disappointed with the recruitment process which is held by recruitment company GTIOS. They rejected my apllication twice - once after maths online test and secondly-after IQ test. Nevertheless, I made it to the telephone interview round. I had the interview last week and I'm still waiting for feedback.
As for the recruitment itself: first I applied online, than after a week I got invitation to online maths test (which was SHL test), then I got invitation to IQ test (also SHL) and then was a telephone interview. The interview consists of 3 parts:
1. questions about you motivation to work for BAT and being a part of Management Programme, they also check what you know about the company (I was asked about its main competitors and about international brands of BAT)
2. behavioral questions
3. questions connected with your chosen field (in my case in with finance)
Basically all of the questions I was asked can be found at glassdoor.com. They also asked about:
- economic situation in Portugal and ways to solve it.
- my salary expectations
- country I wouldn't like to work in
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Applied Researcher at British American Tobacco
Posted Apr 2, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Southampton, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
Received the offer of interview via email. Was flown down to their offices the following week. Had a panel interview with three staff, including the technology projects manager. The interview was split up into three parts. 1) Talk through your CV. 2) HR style questions (e.g Tell me about a time when....). 3) Technical questions.
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Reason for Declining
The time frame of the position did not suit my requirements.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Programmer Manager - Data Centre Migration at British American Tobacco
Posted Sep 14, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 (took a day)
Once selected for telephone interview you are informed that if successful you will be required to attend an all day assessment followed by a sample task (homework) being set that you must return several days later and spend an additional 1/2 day presenting your sample report/programme plan.
This therefore requires almost 2 full days away from your current employer just to apply for their job!
I was supposed to be interviewed by the Head of Programme Delivery but a junior person called me 10 minutes after the appointed time and attempted to interview me.
I particularly like his complaint about his laptop still running Win XP, I pointed out that most enterprises had declined to upgrade past XP due to stability issues and that there was now a clear move towards Windows 7.
"We are installing Windows 8!" he declared.
The feedback to the recruiter was that I was too senior and probably not technical enough.
I had a lucky escape I believe.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Undergraduate Level Program at British American Tobacco
Posted Aug 11, 2010
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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 Dec 2009 in Tokyo (Japan) (took 4 weeks)
I had 1:1 interview after that I got call from BAT and then, I could invite the group interview including presentation .
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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