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Updated May 1, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Hiscox Graduate Scheme Marketing Analyst at Hiscox
Posted May 1, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 (took a day)
I was called about 15 minutes early by someone in Britain. The connection was very bad because of the overseas call. The lady was not that pleasant, quite rude, and asked a few very hard behavior questions that were almost all the same. Lastly, she asked a case question that she was not pleasant about responding to my questions. They never got back to me even after follow up emails.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Analyst at Hiscox
Posted Sep 8, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in New York, NY (took 3 weeks)
First was an IQ/Logic Based online exam, which was relatively easy if you read the questions carefully. After passing that was a phone interview, where they asked situational questions (tell me a time you...). This took about a half hour, and the lady was very nice, and the interview was not difficult at all.
I didn't hear back for another week or so, when another lady from the company called and asked a few more questions, not difficult, just very basic (confirming stuff from my resume, asking if I ever did a presentation, etc.).
A few days later I got a call asking to participate in an all assessment. This consisted of a presentation, a group project, and an interview. All the people there were very nice and approachable, and was one of the best people that I interviewed with.
The next day I got a call saying they chose another person, but actually explained why, and gave specific reasons.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Underwriter at Hiscox
Posted Mar 23, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
First of all, the interview experience was definitely very positive. The Hiscox employees I met were all extremely friendly and welcoming. The atmosphere was brilliant as well, with the candidates being given a chance to walk around the top floor of the Hiscox building, looking at a number of (rare!) artworks that they collect, including a couple of Damian Hurst's pieces, so that was excellent.
The interview itself comprised of a 'meet and greet' session at the beginning, where you met and talked to various Hiscox employees for 3 minutes each without mentioning your degree.
There was then a group exercise, which involved planning a film premier for charity. 45 minutes, but didn't actually have to present it at the end.
There was then the actual interview. These were 2:1 and quite tough, though speaking to other candidates, not all of them were so bad. It seems to depend on who you get. The questions were fairly standard, but they focused a lot of my sales experience (or lack of!) which I wasn't really expecting. Other than that there was one 'technical' question about the risk factors involved in insuring a ship. They said however that they weren't looking for a technical answer, just 'how' you answered. A couple of other candidates got slightly more numerical questions which I'm glad I avoided.
After that there was a lunch during which they decided on who was staying and going. Sadly most of us went, including me so I can't really give much insight into the final interview stage which apparently is an individual presentation to a panel.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Trainee Underwriter at Hiscox
Posted Sep 10, 2010
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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 Nov 2009 (took 2 days)
Fill out an exhaustive application online with many questions with debateable relevance to the role that you would be undertaking. Having done this, wait to hear back for a decent length of time. Then do a psychometric test. This was fine, perfectly doable. Time was a little tight and you have to be disciplined so you don't waste too much time questioning symatics of one question. Then have another interview with more spurious questions in general.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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