E&Y FSO Advisory

Status
Group/Division/Type
Advisory
City
Chicago
Interviewed
October 2015
Overall experience
Negative
Difficulty
Average

General Interview Information

Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months

Interview Details

What did the interview consist of?
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
Applied online for a senior position and received an email to set up a phone interview about a week later. Initially contacted for a phone interview with an HR rep. Questions all about history and why looking for a change and lasted 30 minutes, very conversational. Got back to me about a week later to set up an additional phone interview with a manager from the office I was applying to. About two weeks after that I actually did the interview. They told me the interview was at 9:30 PM and I was like, uh that's odd, but maybe the person was on the west coast or something. I contacted them to confirm it was PM and not AM, and they said it was PM, but on the day of it actually was in the AM. Questions w/ manager were either behavioral or more asking about line items on my resume. Behavioral was about leading teams, dealing with difficult coworkers etc. Nothing technical and lasted 30 minutes. Heard back about a week later for an in person interview w/ 3 staff members, 2 senior managers and a director. All three started with tell me about yourself. I think the first two tried the good cop bad cop, but the second guy just came off as a d-bag. Lots of discussion on the differences between my experience working with smaller banks and the expectations in that group, which works mostly with SIFI's. In my initial interview I asked about the type(size) of financial institutions I would be working with and they stressed it was a wide range, so I was a bit shocked to hear otherwise in later interviews. They never got back to me after the last interview, which pissed me off, but I knew I was not a fit and wouldn't have taken it anyway.
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