Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies Interview Questions
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Started with a recruiter screen, then a basic math/critical thinking assessment to check quantitative ability, and finally a panel interview with the team I'd be joining. The assessment was pretty straightforward, and the interview focused mainly on my education and any skills relevant to the team.

I applied and the recruiter Olivia Wood contacted me. We had a virtual screening, and she thought I would be a good fit and would move on to interview with the hiring manager. She said I would hear from her in 2-3 days. However, 3 days passed with no word. I emailed her, and she said they were behind schedule and it might take 1-2 weeks to set up the interview, but assured me I was still under consideration. A week later, still no word, so I sent another follow-up email, which also went unanswered. The second week ended, and I followed up again, but Olivia Wood never replied. She ghosted me instead of professionally letting me know they were moving forward with other candidates. I never heard from them again, which indicates a unprofessional recruiting team.

I submitted my application and a recruiter got in touch about 3 days later. The interview process involved: a preliminary chat with the recruiter about the job details, three cognitive assessments, two consecutive interviews focusing on my background and logic/situational questions relevant to the role, an interview with the Assistant VP, and finally, a visit to the office for three more interviews, an Actuarial test, and meeting some of the Pricing team. This whole thing took about a month. I really liked the experience; the people were great, communication was quick, and everything went smoothly.

So I had a phone interview first. It was pretty standard, but they asked some weird stuff like my college and high school GPA and my ACT score, even though I'd been out of college for over 10 years. Then I had to go to a testing center for a Wonderlic test and a two-part written test. The first part was word association, and the second was a really hard math section that seemed impossible without a calculator. After that, I got invited for a final in-person interview that was supposed to be 5 hours long. I met with managers, the AVP, and the VP. Everyone interviewed me differently; some asked tons of questions, others just talked about the job. A couple of weeks later, they told me the position, which was supposed to be remote, would now be based in Omaha. That didn't work for me, so I was out. Honestly, the whole thing left a bad impression. They seemed really disorganized and need to seriously rethink how they hire.