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Updated Feb 8, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Business Reengineering, Leader at D&B
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Short Hills, NJ (took 3 months)
It was an utter nightmare. I initially applied for a role that was listed on an alumni site. I got a call back and was told that role was not availble, but there was another role that fit my background. This call call came from an outside recruiting firm which represented itself as being a part of D&B. The person submitted my resume for the position and I then received a call. I had one interview on the phone. That went well and I was asked to travel to Short Hills, NJ (at my costs). There were no directions offered on how to get to this surban location from NYC. I went in for the interview and truly enjoyed all the people I met. After that I got another call to come back to NJ for another set of interviews (you would think they had the sense to realize their location is not convient and to get all interviews done at once). In that interview several people gave me the impression that I would get the role. After that interiview I received a call requesting I do a phone interview with someone. Who when we spoke seemed confused why we were talking. The interview processed ended at that point. As I tell the story it seems not so bad...until you realize this process drug out over 3 months often with no communication from the recruiting firm or D&B. The process was inefficient and you could almost feel how they were playing the people interviewing against each...the entire process felt slezzy and unprofessional. And that should have been my read flag.
While employed the experience was truly awful.
The manager I worked for pulled me aside several times to speak poorly about other employees on our team and express frustration in their need for development. The manager was truly in over their head and overwhelmed with the role. Very demanding in expectations but did a very poor job of setting expectaitons laying out a clear path to success for those who reported to her. In my case I don't think we had one scheduled meeting to discuss expectations around the job or for her to clearly communicate expectrations for my first project. Although it was my first project in a new organization we spent about 10 mins discussing it on a Thursday afternoon. I stayed up all night working on a draft the document that night because she asked for a draft document by Friday for a Monday early afternoon meeting. Had we some time scheduled on Thursday as oppose to a quick 10 min conversation I would have know how she expected to have a final version of the document by early afternoon Monday that was client ready.
Her relationship with her boss was characterized by frequent communication via face-to-face, phone, emails, etc and should have been a model for her with her direct reports, but was not. When she reviewed my on-boarding plan in the only one on one meeting we had (which was not scheduled) she read and responded to several emails her boss sent ultimately leaving me in the huddle room alone for 10 minutes. As a manager of people she did not seem to realize that she had an additional client...her direct reports.
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Negotiation Details
They were inflexible. I found the process low rent.
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Financial Analyst at D&B
Posted Jan 26, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took a day)
Applied online and was then invited to take online tests, both numerical and verbal reasoning types. Having obtained greater than the required marks in the tests was then invited to a first round interview with members of the department applied for. At the office also had to complete a numerical test in person.
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.
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Principal Consultant at D&B
Posted Jan 16, 2012
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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 Apr 2010 in Short Hills, NJ (took 4+ weeks)
Got contacted by recruiter specifically retained by D&B. Had initial interview with hiring manager over the phone followed by one on one with hiring manager followed by a half day meeting with several peers / leaders and a meeting with Human Resources.
Interviews are rather friendly and not very hard and focus on ability to understand data and the business of data management. the meetings were open and informative.
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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 Group/Panel Interview.
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Pricing Manager at D&B
Posted Dec 7, 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 Jun 2011 (took a day)
Interview was very relaxed. I was an internal candidate, so could easily speak to D&B related questions. One question asked was: "what is your dream job"
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Sales at D&B
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 (took 4 weeks)
contacted by a recruiter for the company
recruiter was excellent in profiling my fit for the role and selling the role and opportunity
interview process was a disaster
admins who scheduled the interviews scheduled for wrong times and dates
recruiters and people i was set to interview with first thought i had no-showed and i had to provide documentation to show the error was not on my end
ended up with a chain of phone interviews
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Reason for Declining
no interest based on the horrible impression of disorganization that was made
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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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Business Analyst at D&B
Posted Aug 23, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 in Chennai (India) (took 3 weeks)
Interview process consisted of one round of BA related questions followed by questions related to leadership skills.
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Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Internship-Multi Lingual Data Analyst at D&B
Posted Jul 4, 2011
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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 May 2010 (took a day)
The interview process was pretty straight forward. They asked me questions regarding my skills for the job position and why D&B? This was D&B pilot internship program for college students so it was pretty unique.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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NCAT Sales Associate at D&B
Posted May 22, 2011
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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 2011 (took a day)
They were looking for very confident sales people. Personality is a big thing during this interview process. Relative experience is also very important especially related to sales. Be prepared to answer personal questions of when you demonstrated accomplishment or sales results. The interviewer explained the job is high stress and extremely competitive. Results are expected on a regular basis that constantly exceed your previous performance.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Graduate Analyst at D&B
Posted May 11, 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 May 2011 in Melbourne (Australia) (took 1 week)
Phone interview was easy, took about 10 mins. Asked very basic questions about the company, position and your interest in the position. Had the 1:1 interview about a week later, wasn't too bad, but I think I didn't show enough interest in the company and position.
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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.NET Developer at D&B
Posted Sep 1, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2010 (took a day)
I got a call from recruiting company and said they received my resume from an employee in their company. They said my resume fits for one of the position they have and asked me my back ground and work experience. After that they said they are going to call me for technical interview but never got a call from them. When I followed up, they said my name came up in the discussion and are going to call soon. But I did not the call so far.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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