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Updated May 4, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Actuarial Analyst at Mercer
Posted May 4, 2012
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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 Apr 2012 in Boston, MA (took 2 weeks)
Great company with a great work environment. First interview was a phone interview. I then traveled to their office and had an on-site interview. This consisted of 4 1:1 interviews and then went out to lunch with two other actuarial analysts. Overall great experience.
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Negotiation Details
I did not pursue negotiations as these salaries are very standardized and based on exam progress.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Actuarial Analyst at Mercer
Posted Oct 24, 2011
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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 Oct 2011 (took a day)
I had a thirty minute interview with what I would call a "proxy interviewer." He asked me some routine questions and jotted down a bunch of notes. I was interviewing for an actuarial position but the man wasn't an actuary so he couldn't ask me very technical questions or answer some of my technical questions.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Actuarial Analyst at Mercer
Posted Sep 24, 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 2009 in New York, NY (took 3 days)
Chill workplace. A lot of for questions. They pay a lot of attention to the number of exams passed
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Actuarial Analyst at Mercer
Posted Mar 15, 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 2010 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took a day)
I got the interview opportunity from on campus recruitment. They sent a senior staff to our university. He just asked what I did in my previous internship experience and discussed about my interest in their company.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Actuarial Analyst at Mercer
Posted Nov 26, 2010
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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 Sep 2010 (took a day)
I cleared the IQ/Aptitude test of mercer & finally after 3 weeks or so i was called for the personal interview. There were 2 interviewers who were actuarial managers in mercer. This was the first interview of my life & i was nervous because i knew that this interview was not a piece of cake. I couldn't get through the interview round. Overall it was an average difficulty interview with some amount of cross questioning that made me extra nervous. My advice is whenever you go for an actuarial interview, be prepared to justify your appointment to the company. Be ready to do some serious number crunching exercise before the interview panel & some questions whose reply you can not think of in an instantaneous moment.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Actuarial Analyst at Mercer
Posted Oct 3, 2010
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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 Jan 2008 (took a day)
Fill in long application form
Phone interview (more a formality than anything, basic questions about reasons for applying)
Interview day - 5 min presentation on a current financial topic, group assessment exercise involving looking at the accounts of 4 companies and comparing their outlook (involved some calculations), interview with 2 current members of staff consisting of mostly competency questions.
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Negotiation Details
No negotiation - graduate entrant position with standardised salary.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Actuarial Analyst at Mercer
Posted Oct 3, 2010
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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 Oct 2009 (took a day)
The night before interviews there was a "happy hour" for those who had been selected for first round to socialize with interviewers/recruiters. they provided drinks/appetizers and were extremely nice and knowledgeable. There was not a very good ratio of candidates to recruiters though.
One 1:1 interview with mostly behavioral, generic questions such as "walk me through your resume", "tell me more about this experience", "why do you want to be an actuary?", "why Mercer?", "tell me about a difficult situation", "tell me more about this extracurricular activity".etc
At the end of the interview there is a case question then an excel question.
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Reason for Declining
The recruiting coordinator was EXTREMELY disorganized and did not respond to email from candidates. I had to reach out to my interviewer to ask him about the status of my application. He was extremely nice and emailed her asking her why the process was so long and she immediately responded (only after he emailed her though). Otherwise she was pretty rude except for that one email. They took so long to give me a response about 2nd round that I accepted another offer.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Actuarial Analyst at Mercer
Posted Mar 24, 2010
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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 Feb 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
On campus recruiting, UC Berkeley. They interviewed 14 candidates for the first round at UC Berkeley, and I'm not sure how many got into the second round, but I didn't and my friend also didn't. Basically, they didn't ask any technical questions. All behavior questions, so it's easy to prepare.
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