J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Backbase (Toronto, ON) en févr. 2021
Entretien
1. HR interview - High level interview with the HR about your experience.
2. 1 on 1 interview with Principle BA - Go through your experience. Basically checking if you are a great fit.
3. Case preparation prep - Someone from Director level will prepare you for the case study. This is super helpful. Usually companies have some expectation which they don't tell and you have to somehow surprise them. For me this was the most crucial and helpful meeting and my appreciation and desire to join backbase just shot up.
Prepare you case study presentation in tools like PPT/Canva/whatever. Make it cool and make sure you have all the content. Backbase team reviewed and that helped me a lot to review my content.
4. Case study presentation - A panel of 4/5 people. Stick with the time and complete before time. They are all nice people and their intention is not to destroy you. But preparing in a way that its gonna be super hard, help you better.
5. Offer on same day if you pass the process.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Experience with FI's/ Fintechs, Situational questions, Behavioural questions, Agile processes (Super important), Implementation experience and Product management (BA) experience.
J'ai passé un entretien chez Backbase (Toronto, ON)
Entretien
The person from the recruitment team set up an interview but never turned up. He emailed 2 min before the meeting that he cannot join. An organization who cannot respect people's time us not worth conversing with. Pls refrain from discussing any roles with this form as it is a waste of time as they don't value candidates time
Smooth interview process that didn't take long. Questions were straightforward and related to working in agile. Presentation and case study followed at the final step of the interview process. Great experience in a group setting
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Q: How do you work with the product owner to gather requirements?
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Backbase (Melbourne)
Entretien
A waste of time during 3 rounds. In the final in-person round, the interviewers wasted first 15 mins by doing logistics in the co-working space and coming unprepared. The meeting room was occupied by another party for a while. A couple of people stayed fixated on things that were not relevant to the core topic of the presentation. I spent a week, working almost full time, for giving my best shot. Half of the panel was good, but the other half just made it easy for me to decide to withdraw my application without bothering about the fourth round (which they did not notify me about, at the beginning of the hiring process). Not worth working along side. In one of the earlier round, I felt the interviewers had no etiquettes for holding a conversation. Basics like active listening, not interrupting until someone has finished were non-existent. I felt like the interviewers got their real world problems solved from the skilled BA professionals without even having them onboard. Unfortunate for the candidates. The case study was relevant but the amount of work and type of work that is given makes you doubt the real intent, especially when feedback and decision making process on their side is ambiguous.