Ers Consultant Interview Questions
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Ers Consultant interview questions shared by candidates
Are you familiar with data analytics using Ms.Excel? (e.g: pivot table, macroprogramming)
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I am familiar with MS Excel but not for data analysis
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The inhabitants of an island you live on will build a bridge following the ideas of their leader. You are sure the bridge is unsafe. How will you convince the inhabitants of the faulty design
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i will try convincing the leader first because i think that will save time and energy. doing so will help me put my case in front of other the colleagues as the matter will become familiar to all and will take a positive turn for sure. Less
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If the leader has already decided to go ahead with building the bridge it is obvious that he'll ignore all safety as he is one track minded, ego tripping. My approach would be to target the sympathy and emotion of the islanders, making them aware of the health hazard risk for them their children and the island that an unsafe bridge could entail, Better safe than sorry and ask them to manifest against this move only allowing the bridge to be built once all the safety measures have been adhered to! Less
You have to work in groups a lot, so name a time when there was a member that didn't carry their weight within your group and how did you react?
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Our group as a whole, other then the lacking group member, worked together to do his share of the work and come group evaluation time, gave him low reviews so that the professor could know where the group member was falling short. Less
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Try to help out the struggling member, but if still didn't work, escalate to get the member replaced. Puts the project at risk to have a team member not pull their weight especially in a small team. Less
Tell us a time where you had to work in a group to complete a project.
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I talked about classroom projects/internship experiences I had in the past.
45 minutes telephone interview (relaxing): - Tell me about your degree - What ERS stands for? - What are Moody's analytics' functions and their focuses - What are differences between Investors Service and Analytics (Moody's subsidiaries) - What is your salary expectation - Tell me about a time when you had to work in a diverse group - Tell me about a time when you had to decide on your objectives - Tell me about a time when you have faced a problem?- I cannot remember exact wording of the question but it relates to problem solving 1 hour face-to-face interview (quite relaxing, not very engaging): - Walk through your resume - What do you know about Moody's - Why are you interested to work for Moody's - What can you bring to Moody's - Questions about your skills and experience from your CV - How do they relate to the role - If you have experience in using the similar software, how can they better than Moody's - Walk through your thesis, dissertation and/or project - Questions about your previous thesis/dissertation/project - There was no technical question during this interview.
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A hint for fifth question in Telephone interview: Self management priority system. Less
What tools do we use in pen testing, and have you used them?
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Know the tools and what they do.
I had my project on Android application development. I simply loved it. But I was asked to enumerate its security threats, which I found rather unexpected.
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I answered by analyzing it from the point of view of an open source software. I quoted 'replication of codes due to easy availability on the internet' and the dangers in case a hacker is able to hack into an Android app. Less
Do you consider yourself a process and controls person, or a technical person?
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Process and controls person.