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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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Office Administrator at Discover
Posted Jan 26, 2012
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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 Jan 2011 in New Albany, OH (took 6 days)
This was an internal job listing and my 4th attempt to apply for an admin position.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Business Analyst, Operations Leadership Program at Discover
Posted Nov 17, 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 Oct 2011 (took a day)
The interview consisted of a one on one interview with the head of the department and a case study.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Business Process Consultant at Discover
Posted Nov 2, 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 Oct 2011 (took 1+ week)
A recruiter had contacted me for a Contract to Hire opportunity. At the time I was working Full Time with benefits. However, I looked at the job description had an interview with a recruiting agency. Then the recruiter had passed my resume to the hiring manager. I got invited to the interview within two business days; I got there early and they were ready to interview me early as well, I did not have to wait. I had a 1:1 interview first which lasted about 20 minutes. Then I had an interview with the supervisor and manager. Basic questions about my background were asked. Also, they had asked me why I wanted the position. They ask questions regarding project management, time management, and few basic technical questions if I knew how to use Pivot Tables in Excel for instance. Very laid back, if you can show you are interested and are willing to learn, they will definitely give you a shot.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and 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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Senior Financial Analyst at Discover
Posted Sep 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 Sep 2011 (took 2 weeks)
Was contacted by internal recruiter at Discover. They invited me to a phone interview to see if I was a fit personality wise and background. Once I passed the phone interview, I was invited to interview at their campus. Met with four people on the first day including hiring manager. Next time, met with two other managers. Standard fit interview with one case.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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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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ALP at Discover
Posted Apr 20, 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 Dec 2010 (took a day)
got the onsite interview after the first phone interview
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.
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