The Hanover Insurance Group Interview Questions (2024) - 2 Entries

The Hanover Insurance Group Interview Questions

2 total interview insight submissions

Interview Experience (19%)

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Interview Difficulty (64%)

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% Interns - FT Offers (53%)

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Interviews at The Hanover Insurance Group

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Year

Job Title

Group/Division

Location

Experience

Difficulty

Intern

Year 2022

Job Title Intern

Group/Division Financial Services

Location Worcester

Experience

Positive

Difficulty

Easy

Year 2011

Job Title

Group/Division

Location Worcester

Experience

Negative

Difficulty

Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - The Hanover Insurance Group Examples

Financial Analyst Intern Interview - Financial Services

Anonymous employee in Worcester

Interviewed: October 2022

Date Submitted: Nov 22, 2022

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

Phone Interview

Group Interview

Interview

It was okay. Mostly checking if I was a personality fit. They hire a lot out of the internship so questions were based around if I would be there long term.

Interview Questions

Name a time you were working on a project and someone was sabotaging it.

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Future Leaders Program Interview -

Anonymous interview candidate in Worcester

Interviewed: 2011

Date Submitted: Mar 14, 2012

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

1 on 1 Interview

Group Interview

Skills Test

Interview

Application process was very easy/ normal though I have been told they only recruit from a limited list of universities. Involved resume and cover letter. From speaking with other students it seems the only thing they are interested in is your GPA to get you in the door for an interview.
As for the interview itself they had a group of 5 people currently in the program sitting around hanging out. They were there to talk with you about the program but clearly they were evaluating as well, as two of them were taking notes.
This was followed by a first interview, which was held by a finance executive who is involved in the future leaders program. He asked behavioral type questions that asked you to explain a time when you ___.
This was followed by a meeting with someone in HR who asked what your interests and goals are etc.
Then you took a computer based examination, which basically asked simple math questions like you might find on the SAT, perhaps easier than that.

BUT THE LAST QUESTION on the exam is "if you took this job, would you keep it?" or something like that. BE SURE to get all the way to that question in time and answer it. The exam is designed to end a minute early so that you have less time to answer that question than you expect and don't have time to hesitate.

Another important thing about the interview is that they will measure your ability to handle a situation under stress. They did this by asking a difficult interview question, and while I was thinking they had someone knock on the door and the interviewer said "okay, we'll be finished in a minute". This was not a coincidence, they did this for all applicants. If you encounter this be sure to not panic, and do not try to avoid answering the question by asking if the interview time is up.

Interview Questions

There was one question, the last one, that was particularly hard. It was:

"Explain a time when something unexpected happened, and you had to change your approach to meet the demands and deadline while still maintaining high quality of work"

It was a ridiculously specific question for which nobody really can think of an example off the top of their heads. BUT, it was the process that made the question most difficult. The interviewer asked the question a second time to give the applicant a chance to think, and then after a half a minute of letting you think about it someone knocked on the door, and the interviewer responded "okay, just a minute! we'll be right out".
This was the case for all interviews, my friends who interviewed were put in this situation as well.

My response was not adequate. I spent a long time thinking, and then explained that most of my experience was academic and there is rarely something that happens which is unexpected in that way. I explained that to give myself more time to think. My eventual response I explained a project I worked on where we encountered a part of the project we had not learned about and had to make a solution without prior knowledge of the subject. This wasn't a sufficient response I don't think, but I doubt I could have given a better one in that situation.

If I were to do it again, I would probably describe a project where my teammate told us she couldn't complete her part the weekend before it was due.

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