Thomson Reuters Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Upon applying online, I received a telephone interview of about 20 minutes. The interviewer was up front about the salary and the training involved that would take five to six weeks of the initial employment. I was scheduled an interview at the home office in Eagan, MN. The initial on-site interview was conducted by two reference attorneys - one to ask the questions and the other to make notes. Prior to questioning I was given a brief tour and an explanation of how the department is organized. The majority of the questions dealt with asking for specific examples of experiences in customer service related areas.

Following the initial interview, I was taken to a cubicle in order to listen in on a reference attorney taking a call. After about 20 minutes, one of the first interviewers handed me off to one of the hiring managers who took me for more questions with another manager. The questions were again mostly "Tell us a time when...." One thing they did ask was for me to critique the phone call I had listened to.

Upon finishing with this line of questioning, the hiring manager took me to a different room in order to explain how the scheduling works, vacation, benefits, and other HR details. Overall everyone was very friendly.

Interview Details – Initial interview was on the phone for 1/2 hour. Most questions technical, not behavior oriented. Specific c++ features, such as templates and virtual classes. Second interview on site for 3 hours. Most of interview spent at white board coding c++. Some questions were write a function that swapped the characters in a string, and a function that shifted a character in a string by one, I.e. last character now first. Also describe algorithm to search a matrix of numbers sorted on each row, then what is the performance of that algorithm. In all cases interviewer walked through solution and asked for improvements. Last part of interview had design question about adding a feature to a system without modifying existing class due to large amounts of legacy code. Also some behavior questions, like describe most difficult problem and how you solved it. People very nice, casual atmosphere.

Interview Details – My resume was selected for telephonic Interview through college career fair . The questions are pretty easy but my preparation was not good.

Some of the questions : 1. In a vector how you count the occurrence of each of the element
2. Asked about sorting and one with the best complexity,,, ?? I answered w.r.t merge sort
3. Asked about searching an element in a b tree

Interview Details – You must have some technical understanding. That's probably more critical than having a financial background. Position yourself as someone with User Experience (UX) credentials. That is much needed at the organization. Interview is 2 rounds at the minimum. The company is so large, it's hard to know who you would interview with. Most people are friendly. Be prepared to discuss your experience with PROJECT Management as well. Knowledge of Microsoft Project a big plus for this role.

Interview Details – The recruiter I worked with did a very good job recommending jobs for me. Initially I only applied for one, but ended up interviewing for 4 different ones. I had plenty of options and liked that they were working to help me. I did end up coming in here 4 different times- which was a hassle, but well worth it.

Negotiation Details – They offered me my salary, I tried to negotiate and they said no- take it or leave it. Maybe they decide up front to offer as much as possible, but I was a bit taken back by the fact that they wouldn't negotiate. I always thought that was general practice.

Interview Details – Group of 3 in mass interview. Overall OK.

Negotiation Details – No negotiation. Flat hourly rate. Take it or leave it.

Interview Details – Phone interview and face-to-face interview. No logic to the interviewers.

Negotiation Details – The offer was not bad but expect no annual bonus if you work in Financial & Risk group.

Interview Details – Received an offer to interview with Thomson Reuters after attending a college Career Expo. The interview last for about 15-20 minutes, and consisted of basic behavioral questions, a few questions about myself, and extremely basic computer-related questions. The computer-related questions were along the lines of: "Explain how you would go about moving a file to a different folder." "How you would go about troubleshooting a printer that is not printing," and the like.

The interviewer was very pleasant, and I was requested to come into Thomson Reuter's Ann Arbor office to interview in person. However, this request was ultimately turned down due to Thomson Reuter's inflexibility, regarding the starting date of the internship. The internship was to begin on December 20th, but I needed to travel 750 miles back home, for Winter Break. Thomson Reuter's offered to allow me to start on the 27th of December at the very latest. This required to begin training with their Tax Accounting software on my own, and also required me to leave on Christmas day to get out to Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Reason for Declining – The inflexibility of the internship starting date. The rate of pay of $12 per hour was also a contributing factor in this decision.

Interview Details – I had an on-campus interview which consisted of simple HR questions