Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Acas as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Coordinator and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Coordinator and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Acas takes an average of 3 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. To compare, the average duration of hiring at similar companies like BlackRock, Inc. is 14 days, Fabricated Software, Inc. is 2 days, and Apple Inc. is 21 days. Candidates applying for Coordinator had the quickest hiring process (on average 3 days), whereas Coordinator roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 3 days).
The interview started with strength based questions, followed by two experience based questions and finally was given an exercise that consisted of reviewing information then answering questions based on it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would your friends say you deal with processing complex information
Was really good and easy and the managers were so nice to talk to and ask me really good questions and made me feel at ease when answering this Came away feeling really good
I applied online. I interviewed at Acas in Jan 2023
Interview
Behaviour star model interview with a situational awareness test. If you memorise 2 for each behaviour you should be fine. No strength questions or ice breakers. Found it quite strange if I'm being honest. It also took months from initial questions to arranging an actual interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It was so long ago I can't really remember but they were quite open ended, allowing you to apply to various different situations.