I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Backbase (Kraków) in Mar 2022
Interview
I submitted my CV on career Backbase side and I got a contact in 2 days. I spoke with very nice recruiter from Cracow.
My interview was separated into 3 parts:
1. Interview with recruitment team
2. Interview with Lead BA and Product Owner
3. Presentation on specific topic.
The first interview took around 45 minutes and it was related with my skills and reasons, why I was looking for a new job. I felt positive vibe about companies values and way of work.
The second interview was related with my experience and technical background. After the interview, I received the detailed feedback about my person, what I should improve, what are my strong abilities and what is my potential career path.
The last interview was presentation. I got a case study and I had one week to prepare the presentation. It was a 30 minutes talk about daily tasks in the new project and how I can improve the way of work there. There was a QA session after the presentation.
After the last interview, there could be a fourth interview with delivery manager, but he was available during the presentation and he checked, if I suit to the team.
After all, I received an offer, which I accepted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was my biggest success in the project?
What was my biggest failure in the project?
How do I deal with difficult stakeholders?
How do I deal with difficult demands?
What was my scope of responsibilities?
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
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: How do you work with the product owner to gather requirements?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Backbase (Melbourne)
Interview
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.
Senior Business Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Backbase with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 95% positive. To compare, the company-average is 89.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Business Analyst roles take an average of 33 days to get hired, when considering 38 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Backbase overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Backbase as a Senior Business Analyst according to 38 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 18%
Group panel interview: 16%
Background check: 16%
One on one interview: 15%
Phone interview: 14%
Drug test: 7%
Skills test: 7%
Personality test: 3%
Other: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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