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Updated May 11, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Operations at Dtcc
Posted May 11, 2012
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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 2012 in New York, NY (took a day)
First I had a very brief phone interview with the HR rep. We scheduled then a face to face interview with the hiring manager and her team. The lady from HR was very disorganized, forgot to confirm the interview, I had to follow up and re-schedule. Once in the office, again, a little bit disorganized. The lady from HR was first unable to find the conference room where the interview with the hiring manager and her team took place. Then the hiring manager was late, so a dude from the team started the interview. He was not prepared at all and obviously not motivated to conduct an interview. He actually didn't ask any questions. I basically ended up interviewing him, just to keep up the conversation. I didn't get an offer, in fact I didn't get any feedback after the interview (again HR lady probably working very sloppy), but I am not unhappy, this place looked unprofessional to me. Not to mention the office which looks like 20 years behind other offices on wall street.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Operations Specialist at Dtcc
Posted May 3, 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 Apr 2012 in New York, NY (took a day)
Had a phone interview one day and then met with HR, hiring manager and members of the team the following day. Not too complicated - I got the sense that they wanted to do the least amount of training possible because they're overworked and understaffed. Definitely an office type setting that isn't as modern as other places. They do give assistance towards advanced degrees though and are moving to Jersey City in 2013.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Project Manager at Dtcc
Posted Apr 20, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)
Standard boilerplate questions. If you're interviewing from an internal position, you'll be in contact with an HR person through their Lotus notes-based application system, otherwise you'll likely make more than one trip to the offices at 55 water and speak to HR and then one or more sessions with hiring managers.
Questions were standard fare:
Tell me about yourself? What do you know about DTCC? Why do you want to work here? Tell us how your previous experience would translate to the project work here?
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Reason for Declining
Negligible pay increase
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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ELPT at Dtcc
Posted Mar 28, 2012 — 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 Mar 2012 in Tampa, FL (took 3 weeks)
I received the interview through the college career center. I was interviewed by Two ladies from HR. They asked mostly questions about my resume and dug deep into wanting to know who I was as a person.
About 1 1/2 weeks later i was called in to take the Berger aptitude test. There was no way to study for the test. It's strictly following directions.
I was then called in the following week for another 1-on-1 with the VP and a lady from HR. Mostly to answer questions and inquire a bit more.
Very nice people. Very tight security at the office building.
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Negotiation Details
No negotiations. They had the salary set at 55K and they gave me 57K, which was awesome!
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Senior Programmer at Dtcc
Posted Aug 22, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 (took 3 days)
Interviewed with Human Resources first.
Interviewed with technical team consisting of 4 techs. Answered questions in round table type environment.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Analyst at Dtcc
Posted Jun 27, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2009 (took 2 days)
Fairly straightforward
Interview Questions
Reason for Declining
Wasnt interested in the responsibilities
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Technology Consultant at Dtcc
Posted May 5, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Apr 2011 in New York, NY (took 3 weeks)
I was reached out by a Staffing agency for this full time permanent job. I found a lot of discrepancies in the position description so tried to clear everything. Job posting was really very ambiguous - they wanted a Senior level Java/J2EE person who is not running away from coding and good in application architecture area with some 10 years of experience and if possible some 3 years of financial services background. After sending my resume and cover letter to DTCC, i come to know that i need to appear in two online tests-Java1.5 and JEE6. The online tests were from IKM and very good tests. Each test was around 2:15 to 2:30 minutes and had a provision of negative marking. In fact if you skip the question then also it will have negative marking. More over each test was having multiple answers(check box) but it won't tell you how many are correct. If somebody try to select anything from the exam screen the test will be abandoned, so one has to do it honestly. I did it well and come to know scored some where like 78% and 85% on both the tests. The next round was telephonic interview after 4 days. It seems the interviewer was reading the questions and had the answers from a paper/computer. He never asked me any cross questions and this interview also went really well as in that one hour i provided a very detailed answers to his questions with extra examples etc...Questions were easy like "difference between interface and abstract class", three pillars of OOP etc...
Then i was called for the face to face interview in the wall street office. I met HR for around 20 minutes where she collected the employment background check form and asked me few other questions like why you want to leave your current job and join DTCC etc... HR confessed that the job specification is poorly written and it is confusing the candidates in terms of what DTCC is looking for - Developer, Sr. Developer, Lead Developer or Architect.
Then i had a panel interview for 90 minutes - one person attending it on video conference from Tempa, FL. They tried to make video conferencing to work for around 10 minutes and then gave up. Interviewers were friendly. Only issue was that the two interviewers who were in front of me were not from java background-they were mainframe. I tried to be diplomatic as i have read that a java person should not constantly tell the mainframe folks that we will do a rewrite of the mainframe components. The gentleman on the phone(because VC didn't worked) was knowing java but at the superficial high level(very much text book knowledge as he was from educational services domain). The questions were fairly high level and it doesn't sound that they are doing interesting work in the cutting edge technologies. Moreover mainframe folks were bit adamant in terms of ideas to change the systems to open systems and latest industry standards. It was more of a discussion rather than technical interview which was sort of disappointing to me. It was for the ADM department and what i can find out that it was heavy messaging and too much traffic in the production they are dealing with. Not much of the front end or web based applications. They didn't ask design and architecture questions-just some strategy questions(only two in number).
Later after one day i come to know from the agency that they are very happy and she asked for professional references. After 5 days i come to know that i am not selected reason- they want a high level abstract architect not an architect who has come from the development background. What is a bluster???
Why did they asked for online tests at the very first place. My overall 15 hours of efforts are wasted. It's the final interview which was fatal for me as they didn't asked any thing related to the person they were recruiting for? Why they had a wrong description of the position at first place. It's waste of everybody's time.
Overall i was there in their office for 2:30 hours-it's a very laid back and relaxed place where people are working in relaxed environment.It's completely IBM shop and full of slow and lengthy processes. Computers, cubicals, doors and everything was very old and this place was looking at least 20 years behind from rest of the Wall street firms. Good amount of folks who are working here are in their late 40s or mid 50s and quite old fashioned.
Future candidates, make sure that job specification is correct then only go there. I feel this interview was already fixed.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Risk Audit at Dtcc
Posted Jan 8, 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 Jun 2010 in New York, NY (took 3 days)
Initial phone interview with HR. After this, invited into interview 1:1 with three VP / Director level staff members in audit. Prior to 1:1 interviews, one is required to filled out a complete employment application, which HR neglected to mention prior to the date of the interview.
1:1 interviews revealed dissatisfied or jaded employees going through the motion with new audit MD (Managing Director) trying to make sea changes. Intensity of interview was average with reciting of employment chronology and few generic questions on why I would want to work here and why I am leaving.
Invited back a week later to interview 1:1 with two MDs: head of audit and his lieutenant. Second in charge is cut & dry audit guy. Head of audit is former ML senior auditor. Good interview with Head of audit and very awkward interview with lieutenant as he talked more about his experience than ask of mine.
Feedback from HR the next day was positive; then no communication. Two weeks later, recruiter informed me that they passed on my application but HR could not provided reason. Strange.
Three months later, recruiter informed me that DTCC had pulled the position off the market, unfilled.
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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 Background Check.
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Finance at Dtcc
Posted Oct 17, 2010
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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 Aug 2008 (took 2 days)
My recruiter got me an interview. I had a 1:1 with HR and a Group interview with the group.
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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, a Group/Panel Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Senior Corporate Network Architect at Dtcc
Posted Mar 23, 2010
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in New York, NY (took 1 week)
DTCC HR find my resume on monster and contacted me directly asking if I would be interested in the full time opportunity. My respond was yes and she send my resume to the manager for review. Next day she come back to me with the positive respond from hiring manager he wants to talk to me over the phone. It took another 4 days to set it up (I had to send a few emails to get confirmation on the day and time ) confirmation came at last moment. At scheduled time manager called me and gave me the reason to write this review.
I'm in IT field more than 15 years and have never had experience with such bizarre treatment. The guy just hang up on me after 5 minutes of conversation. I was going through my work experience and while I was on my current job responsibilities he told me that "he has my resume and he needs to read it " and hanged up on me. Just like that. I also did not get follow up from HR . I did sent HR email asking for clarification what happened and why I was treated this way . HR did not even bother to replay.
My points are:
1. HR find me by herself it means the opening exist and they looking for right candidate. It is HR person responsibility to do proper screening (she did -- I have experience DTCC was looking for). After passing my resume to the hiring manager she became unreachable and very unresponsive.
2. Hiring manager have read my resume before making decision for phone interview . Why would you set it up unless you see a good match then he hanged up on me while I was going through my experience from the resume he already read.
This was my experience with DTCC . I wish to everyone to have more professional experience with this company. It looks like whey don't know how to conduct interview process. I guess there are not many openings at DTCC and they have no practice nor experience to do their job right way.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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