I applied through university. I interviewed at Allstate (Northbrook, IL) in Sept 2016
Interview
1) Met recruiters at a university career fair 2) Behavioral phone interview with HR 3) Technical phone interview (not intense) 4) On-Site interview
The on-site interview was a half-day event that consisted of multiple sections:
1) Presentation of some project you've worked on. This was to show communication skills
2) General programming questions. I was given a packet of code and some word problems and asked to debug it/explain what was going on
3) Case Study: More of a philosophical discussion and looking into how you went about using a dataset to solve a problem
4) Behavioral Interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How could you determine if two strings were permutations of one another (i.e. "lenovo" and "novelo")
4 hour long process with a behavioral, coding, and case study with 1 hour hour session for each. The process was pretty organized and easy to follow and prepare for.
After about two weeks my application, I got an email from Allstate and asked to finish a virtual interview within 48 hours. Basically, I entered my phone number into their website and the system called me back. Then I answered about 7 questions from the system.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Allstate in Apr 2019
Interview
Started with a call from a recruiter which was fairly simple with basic questions about you and contained 2 behavioral questions. The recruiter also explained the remainder of the process which included a behavioral interview --> tech interview/case study --> in person with a presentation aspect.
From there I was invited to do the next step: a behavioral video interview. This is where the issues began. I was told to prepare for a behavioral interview using the STAR method but once I got on the Skype call, it was not a behavioral interview but rather a tech interview with coding questions. I was not prepared and did poorly on the algorithmic thinking. There was also a database-optimizing hypothetical case study.
Overall a poor experience with Allstate because of the disorganization.