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Client Team Administrator at Capita
Posted May 24, 2011
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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 May 2011 (took a day)
Consisted of a two face to face interviews which went well. Then offered role.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Architect at Capita
Posted Jul 13, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 (took 2 days)
Initially had a telephone interview where I was asked a few loose questions on my background and experience. I was asked several questions on virtualisation and my experience thereof.
It was quite a relaxed informal interview - although I later learned the recruiting manager (and boss to be) was not very technical and was following a script and expecting certain key phrases in the answers I was giving. Nothing too taxing overall.
Was called in for a second interview which started off as a little more of the same (background and experience), but I later learned was more to see whether I was presentable and had people skills. Moved onto a couple of scenarios about how to move a IT service from a physical datacentre environment into a Capita hosted Datacentre environment - again looking for key phrases such as carrying out an physical evaluation of the existing environment (using products like Platespin) etc to see what the current actual load on the physical servers was, also identifying a 'service at a time' rather than trying to move the entire datacentre at once. Need to mention a few popular P2V software products and perhaps mention a period of parallel running (rather than going for a 'big bang' cutover) shows that you are aware of risks in moving into a virtualised datacentre. Do all that and you are pretty much in.
The interviewer on both occasions was the (not very technical) hiring manager and was easily impressed - although in retrospect I could've been talking martian and if I'd mentioned the key phrases I think he'd have offered.
Was followed quite quickly by a verbal offer, and a written contract in 2 weeks.
Overall impression of the company is quite poor (to put it politely), quite a low level or organisation coupled with a high level of 'silos' mean that getting anything done is more a case of luck than any sort of judgement. A prevalent 'Blame Culture' which pervades from the top of the organisation right through to the bottom makes things harder still - as well as a large number of 'Jobsworths' and tattle tales makes working there quite unpleasant.
I really wouldn't want to recommend working here to anyone.
Capita is basically the Ryan Air of IT Services companies, do everything on the cheap, nothing without a project and NO product portfolio to speak of - everything is engineered on the spot - no Purchase Order == no design. Little or no re-use of designs either with everyone guarding whatever they have like it was their retirement fund.
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Negotiation Details
No negotiation - a take it or leave it attitude pretty much - I should have seen the warning signals.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Administrator at Capita
Posted Jun 24, 2010
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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 May 2008 in Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom) (took a day)
1-2-1 interview, competency and behavioural questions
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Negotiation Details
could negotiate pay
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Trainee Actuary at Capita
Posted Dec 2, 2009
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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 Sep 2007 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 4 weeks)
I made contact through e-mail first ,and an interview was set up. the first interview consisted of two interviewers, the head of the department and another high up in the dept. Most questions were standard, with some focusing on my leaving cert results (Irish equivalent of A-levels). They both talked a lot about what work they do. the 2nd interview again had 3 interviewers., again the dept. head and the leader of two different teams. A lot of the questions were repeated by the new interviewers, with a question about what salary I expected.A question was asked about my final year project and whether I achieved the results i wanted.They talked about what each team does and asked me which i would be more interested in working for.
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Negotiation Details
I asked for standard salary as I had no exam exemptions. (actuarial exams). 28,750 was agreed + benefits
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Bid Manager at Capita
Posted Jul 14, 2009
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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 Aug 2008 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 4 weeks)
Very informal initially, then a more formal panel interview. Positive throughout, but no further communication, so assumend no offer.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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