I applied online. I interviewed at Walt Disney Company (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2022
Interview
Applied online, HR reached out after about a week to setup interview with hiring manager. She stated that the interview process was fairly easy and not very technical. Meet with hiring manager and that was a more getting to know you type interview, very good experience with her. Then there was a technical part, excel and SQL test. After that, it’s even more technical, which the recruiter was not straight forward about. I received a case study to do an extensive analysis on. The worst case analysis I’ve ever had with no direction of where to go, so much ambiguity and missing data. They want to know your thought process, but it’s so much work to do on top of working full time and having to prepare. You then present the analysis in a presentation form to a panelist. For the amount of work that goes into this interview process and to hear absolutely nothing back is absurd. I never got a rejection email, reached out to HR and asked about the status after I received an offer elsewhere and no response. Crickets… I love Disney but after this process, makes me change my opinion about them
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you want to work for Disney?
Talk about a time when you had a lot of deadlines and how did you handle it?
Interview process was a recruiter screen, hiring manager interview, Excel test, and panel final round with 3 other people. Process took about a month from start to finish, A week per interview stage.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Walt Disney Company in Nov 2023
Interview
Slow moving process and ultimately ghosted. Submitted application end of month 1. Had first screener call end of month 2. In month 3, had first round interview with manager plus one excel test to be completed in one hours. In month 4, I had 3 back to back interviews and one final interview in the same week. The morning I received the final interview invite, the recruiter wanted me to complete the interview same-day. It's now month 6 and no word after a few follow up emails. Great people but poor process and bad look for the company to offer no decision after all of that.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Walt Disney Company in Aug 2022
Interview
There is initially a call with the Recruiter. Once the recruiter identifies if you're a good fit for the role, there is an interview with the hiring manager. If the hiring manager thinks you're a strong candidate, there is an interview with another finance manager on the team. The last interview is with the VP of finance. After two weeks with no communication from Disney, I reached out to the recruiter to see if management came to a decision. The recruiter has not responded and it has been about three months since my last interview. I think it was very unprofessional for the company to interview me and not provide me with a courtesy email saying they went another direction. I expected more from Disney given their reputation.
Senior Financial Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Walt Disney Company with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 52% positive. To compare, the company-average is 70.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Financial Analyst roles take an average of 36 days to get hired, when considering 23 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Walt Disney Company overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Walt Disney Company as a Senior Financial Analyst according to 23 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 29%
Phone interview: 25%
Group panel interview: 13%
Background check: 12%
Skills test: 8%
Drug test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Presentation: 4%
Other: 2%
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