Actuary Interview Questions

“Are you more of a number-cruncher or do you prefer dealing with clients?”

“What past experience do you have checking the work of others?”

“One interviewer asked me towards the end of his session, "Why should we hire you?" I loved that he asked me that!”

“Baseball question. I don't play baseball and don't understand the rule. The manager has to restructure his question to become a basketball question. Basically, it's a test on the factors that…”

“Nothing was difficult nor unexpected.”

“No behavioral questions, nothing particularly difficult. Just a lot of expanding of my résumé. They also asked what I wanted them to take from my résumé.”

“Most questions were pretty standard...What makes you interested in a career here? Tell me about a time when you excelled, or overcame an obstacle? Prior work experience, etc.”

“All questions are standard, why actuarial science”

“One guy asked me how many dogs I estimated that there were in Tucson.”