I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Mattersight in Feb 2013
Interview
Met with a recruiter at my school's career fair and was contacted for an interview later that night. Met with them the next day for about 30 minutes for an in-person interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A family of 4 (2 parents and 2 children) is trying to cross a river. They see a canoe they can use, but it can only hold two people (A child and a parent, 2 children, or one parent). How can the entire family get across the river? Note: No one can swim across.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Mattersight (Chicago, IL)
Interview
Phone Screen (involving general questions, behavioral questions and word problems/brain teasers); personality tests online (supposedly not affecting viability for employment) 2 sets of interviews each by multiple people from different levels and departments.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give me an example when you used data to solve a problem.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Mattersight
Interview
Met recruiters at career fair. On campus interview, two weeks later was invited for an in person interview. The on campus interview was about 45 minutes and the interview in Chicago took about 2.5 hours. Prior to the on site interview, I took a personality test. When arriving at Mattersight after checking in, a recruiter will greet you and you'll take the Wonderlic test. I then met with four different people. One focused on my resume, another on behavioral questions, another on different scenarios, and the last on more logic/critical thinking problems.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Theres a vending machine with 50 diffferent options in it. Each item costs 10 cents and you only have 50 cents, what would be the most effective way to test the machine with only that amount of money?
Suppose you could go back to 1990 and start any business you wanted with all of the knowledge about you have now. What would you choose? Why? What would concern you with your choice?
There are three boxes. One is labeled apples, another oranges, and the third apples & oranges. Each box is mislabeled. You are allowed to reach into one of the boxes only and pull a fruit. How do you determine what the proper labels should be?
