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Updated Jan 31, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior Associate, Risk Management at Discover
Posted Jan 31, 2012
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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 Jan 2012 in Riverwoods, IL (took 5 weeks)
First, I got a phone interview from the department's Senior Manager. She asked me a lot of technical questions about building models, from data cleaning, variable selections, results interpretation to model revalidation. The phone interview lasted more than 1 hour. Right at that evening, I received the on-site interview invitation.
During on-site interview, I met with 5 people, 2 Directors and 3 Senior Managers. I had 45 minutes to talk to each of them. Directors did not ask technical questions, they just wanted to assess your potential and your matching degree to this position. Senior managers asked some technical questions and one case about how to model people's preference between two different credit cards.
After 3 week's waiting, I was informed by HR that I did not get the offer. It's not so surprising because I am a fresh graduate without any working experience in this field. They finally recruited a person who has some working experience before. This is a good interview experience. All of the people I met are very nice.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Portfolio Analysis Consultant at Discover
Posted Aug 26, 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 Nov 2010 in Riverwoods, IL (took 4+ weeks)
I was contacted by an external recruiter for the position with Discover. After chatting with her, she submitted my resume to the hiring team and I was quickly scheduled for a phone interview with a manager and a director. We discussed my work history and current role as well as career development and it went really well. They wanted to fly me in immediately to meet with multiple members of the team but due to scheduling conflicts I had to push it off for several weeks. It seemed a good sign that they were willing to wait. Once I arrived at the corporate campus, it became apparent they had multiple positions to fill and they were throwing money around to try to get as broad of an applicant pool as possible. I met with one of the guys from the phone interview and then another manager who did a verbal SAS skills test. After that things went off the rails. The next manager that came in was not only unprepared, he was downright rude and dismissive. He didn't want to be there and made it clear he was uninterested. After that, instead of meeting with the director as scheduled, a peer to the position's level showed up and asked me questions about a completely unrelated position. Once she left they forgot I was there. I had to get the front desk to help me arrange a cab, despite the promise one would be waiting, and it took much diligence following up with HR to get reimbursed for my expenses - which they had promised to cover upfront but did not handle.
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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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Marketing Manager at Discover
Posted Jun 3, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Riverwoods, IL (took 6 weeks)
Initial screening and phone interview done by HR went very well. Just basic questions about my background. They wanted me to meet with the hiring manager, but since I live out of town, they coordinated a time when the hiring manager would be in my area and we could meet in person. The meeting went very well - we basically just chatted about their marketing group and general industry trends. HR called the next day and said they wanted to fly me out to meet the senior leaders and offered to put me up in a hotel room overnight, which I thought was really nice. So I took a day off of work, flew out there, stayed over, and met with two more marketing leaders. Both meetings were fine - they asked a few tough questions about the company and the value I would bring, but nothing unexpected. Sadly though, that was the last I heard from them. No one got back to me on the role or returned my phone calls, which I thought was odd considering the time and effort they spent bringing me out there. I really did like everyone I met at Discover, but in the end, I was extremely disappointed by their lack of respect and professionalism to not tell me that I hadn't gotten the job.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Analyst at Discover
Posted May 21, 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 in Highland Park, IL (took a day)
Three persons ask you some behavior questions and some statistical questions, like how to handle multicolliearity and factor analysis
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Statistical Analyst_fraud Detection at Discover
Posted May 2, 2011
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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 Apr 2011 in Chicago, IL (took 4+ weeks)
In phone interview, the interviewer will first ask you to introduce yourself, and then mainly focus on your resume. Based on your resume, he will ask some technical questions, e.g. some statistical method you used. And for the left time, he will ask about how to analyze fraud detection given data of customer background and purchase. The whole phone interview lasts about 45 minutes.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Project Manager at Discover
Posted Jan 20, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Jul 2010 in Riverwoods, IL (took 2 weeks)
Very standard questions. The phone interview is mainly conducted by hiring manager. The 1:1 on site interview is quite standard, basically needs to cover all your experience and you should be excited for the new job.
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Negotiation Details
Yes, but not too much room.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Associate Developer at Discover
Posted Dec 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 Nov 2010 in Riverwoods, IL (took 4+ weeks)
I posted my resume for a job on Discover website and got a call from HR in about 2 weeks. He asked me questions about my availabilty and some general questions from my resume. After that, he set up an interview with the hiring manager and team lead and team member. On the day of the interview, I went to the Discover office and met with the hiring manager. The interview was very basic with questions on my past work experience and my courses that I took during my Master's. The second round was with the project team lead and team member. It was mostly technical with basic questions from SQL and JAVA. Overall it was a good experience. The interviewers were polite and cordial.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Operations Leadership Program at Discover
Posted Nov 18, 2010 — 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 Nov 2010 in Riverwoods, IL (took 2 days)
I interviewed at Discover for their OLP position. It began with a dinner with other applicants one night followed by a day-long interview the next day. It consisted of 3 1:1 interviews, all behavioral questions from the ones I spoke with. Had a panel discussion about Discover and their attempts to be #1 in customer service. They wanted to hear some buzz words to illustrate that you've done your homework, i.e. Pulse Network or Diner's Club. Had lunch followed up by a presentation with a randomized teammates talking about customer service some more. I don't think I got the job because of this presentation. Cliffnotes: know everything Discover does that you think helps them achieve better customer service.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Operations Leadership Program at Discover
Posted Nov 17, 2010
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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 Nov 2010 in Riverwoods, IL (took 3 weeks)
The interview process consisted of:
-On campus Interview: 30 minutes behavioral, 30 minutes case study
-On-site 2nd Round: Group presentation, lunchtime panel discussion with four or five other candidates, 3 30-minute 1 on 1 interviews
Overall, not too bad...just be yourself and make sure you show interest in the company and understand the financial services industry well.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Senior Associate at Discover
Posted Oct 9, 2010
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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 Sep 2010 in Chicago, IL (took a day)
Just ask questions about your resume. Nice people
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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