Advice on a Business Analyst Interview

[DezUk]

I have an interview with Tesco Bank tomorrow for a Business Analyst role and was looking for some tips as I haven't been for an interview in a while, I know it will be competency based and have been looking over some potential questions and thinking of suitable scenarios.

Just wondering if anyone has been to a similar interview and especially Tesco Bank. The role is a part time position and I I aware it is technical based so I will be using my own examples.

Thanks

 

[dowie]

I guess there are the obvious standard interview questions you've got to look out for if some HR drone is brought in to do a meaningless interview first - 'tell me about your strengths and weaknesses' etc...

My old place used to do an aptitude test - maths/puzzles, pattern recognition etc.. sort of like an IQ test. It wasn't so much a case of candidates with the highest score having a better chance at the role but simply getting rid of candidates below a certain score as they're seemingly just crap at solving abstract problems.

Maybe you'd have some domain specific questions (if applicable) - perhaps if you've got previous experience of retail banking or something. Maybe some light technical questions - for example we'd expect BA's to be able to answer simple unix and SQL questions.
I'd take it for granted to be asked about development methodologies you've worked with - waterfall/scrum/back-of-a-fag-packet etc... and to talk through projects you've been involved with. You might well also get someone who doesn't want an informal chat but has been coached by HR to ask questions robotically along the lines of 'tell me about a time when a project ran into difficulty... tell me about a time when blah blah blah' make sure you've got some canned examples for any potential interviewer drone so he can tick off the boxes for each 'tell me about...' question he rattles off.

 

[DezUk]

Thanks for the info. I was expecting to maybe get some sleep type questions but I have zero experience of that. This is reflected in my CV. Just been a while since I did an interview so on the nerves.