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Updated Jan 25, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Positive	62%
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Negative	12%

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Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)

Applied online, and was invited to assessment centre. This consisted of a 1:1 interview with a manager from the division you'd applied for, which mainly dealt with competencies and motivation, with one question on economics. This lasted 25 minutes. The next phase was a logical reasoning test, which was very difficult and noone finished. The entire process lasted no more than 90 minutes.

Interview Questions

What three things would you want to improve on before joining Royal Bank of Scotland?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Nov 2009 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 1 week)

The one to one interview wasn't was similar to the telephone interview. More testing of the deal knowledge and various systems I am familiar with.

Interview Questions

The analysis of the deal structured by a competitor and its advantages

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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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2.0

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 weeks)

One interview with two people - the person I was replacing and future boss

Interview Questions

How I would manage a remote team

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Negotiation Details

All done through an agency (Michael Page)

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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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3.0

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Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Aug 2009 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 8 weeks)

Received phone call for interview, agreed on time, date & location.

Interview 1 : Interviewed by two potential new work mates. Informal conversation, discussion of CV, relaxed friendly & approachable. Process of recruitment explained , " 1 interview, review than second interview, followed by offer if applicable " Duration of interview 1 = 45 Minutes

Receive no contact for working week, receive a phone call to arrange a second interview, agreed on time date & location.

Interview 2: Interviewed by Head of department, initially double booked, left wait for an hour in the lobby, finally met with interview, once again approach relaxed & friendly. Turnaround time on feedback / offer not stated when queried.

Feedback / Offer: No feedback after a week - call to leave alternative number to be contacted on and confirm all other contact details. Receive no further feedback for a week, chased again. No further response from company for 2 weeks. When an attempt to arrange an conversation to provide feedback occurs, despite several attempts, no feedback ever received. A thoroughly disappointing experience which has poorly reflected on a company which is already struggling to maintain a reputable image.

Interview Questions

Why do you want to take this position?

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How would you find the square root of £500,000,000

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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2009 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)

I applied for the Client Coverage and Advisory programme under Global Banking with RBS. After a month of submitting the (very lengthy) application form, and taking some psychometric tests, I had a phone call from the RBS recruitment team inviting me to a competency interview and further psychometric testing at London. in three days time. I had to travel to London from Glasgow, and was told I would be reimbursed for travel and accommodation costs. Although I heard that other candidates had been informed earlier, thereby giving them more preparation time, I agreed to the date. The tests went well and so did the interview. The interviewer was very pleasant and easy to talk to, and I frankly thought I had done quite well since the questions were the usual motivational and CV-based ones. While the other candidates finished their interviews in about 40 minutes, mine went on for little more than an hour, and I thought this was a positive sign. After about two weeks, I had a call from RBS saying I was not going to be invited to the next round. When I asked for feedback on which aspect I had underperformed, the caller said they would not be able to divulge that. I thought this very unhelpful. I then had to go through considerable trouble to get back my travel and accommodation costs. I had to call in to RBS repeatedly for about two months and after some strong remarks, I was finally paid my money.

Interview Questions

As part of the tests, we were asked to complete one where we had to assign capital to start up companies, based on information that was supplied to us about those companies and their financial performance. This was not very hard, but lengthy and tricky since it was a very new and unexpected form of testing.
The interview however was quite normal, with no blind-siding on the questions front. Questions consisted of why RBS, why the particular role, 3 facts about RBS and the like. Competency questions included examples of teamwork and leadership, negotiation and persuasion.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Feb 2009 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)

The assessment centre took place in one RBS office within London. It was actually a 4-step interviewing process. The first step was a one on one interview which was basically a competency-based interview on your past achievements and your motivations for joining RBS.
The second step was a presentation that I had to put together after reading a set of documents about the current economic crisis in Asia - it was then supposed to end with a small interview but it didn't...
The third step was a regular numerical test for which we could use a calculator.
It then ended with a group work - I was with 5 other applicants and each of us had to promote a sports event. The whole group had to decide eventually to pick up 2 projects out of the six as the most outstanding ones. We were wached over by HR people and business people.

Interview Questions

What do you think of the current slamming process that bankers go through ?

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Negotiation Details

There was not any real negotiation phase.

Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2009 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)

Initial first interview consists of mainly competency style questions posed to you from 2 personnel, followed by an shl test and an able test.

Interview is quite ok, dont lie and dont fabricate. The people seem quite proud of what they do and are very willing to talk abt it. so always ask questions!