Preparatory Questions for Analyst Profile

 Give a brief introduction about yourself.

 Where do you see yourself five year from now? Or what are your career goals?
- You have to say I want to see myself after five years as a good position in your company.
I’m looking forward to a long term relationship with this organization

 What do you know about the Xceedance?

- Xceedance is a global giant into Insurance & Reinsurance.
It operates under different verticals Insurance operations, Underwriting, Catastrophe &
exposure management, Actuarial services, Policy service, Technology & core systems,
Insurance data sciences, Business intelligence & reporting, Claims and Finance &
Accounting.
Headquarters-Boston, MA
Year founded-2013
Company type-Privately Held
Company size-501-1,000 employees

 What do you understand by the role of ‘Analyst’ for which you have
applied?
(Thoroughly read about your Job description)
 What do you know about the Xceedance clients? ( Berkshire Hathaway inc)
 What are your strengths and weaknesses?
 How your weakness helps to motivate in your life?
 Give live examples of your strengths related to your life?
 Give two reasons why I should hire you.
 Who has influenced your life?
 What major problems have you faced in your career, and how have you
solved them?
 What are your goals in life?
EXCEL preparatory question
What is Syntax of Vlookup?

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1. Pivot table
2. V-lookup
3. H-lookup
4. Addition , subtraction, multiplication, divide
5. Auto filter
6. How to convert table in pivot table

PROBLEM SOLVING ANALYTICAL QUESTIONS?

1. Interview Question: Give me details of a time when you were unable to complete a task
because you didn’t have adequate information to reach a good decision.
Answer Guide: Answer should show that you will guess or settle for a solution that isn’t
optimum.

2. Interview Question: Give me one example of a time when you had to quickly analyze a situation
and make a quick decision.
Answer Guide: Answer should show you are capable of making sound decisions on the fly
without becoming frazzled.

3. Interview Question: Describe how you handle yourself when you are stressed or under
pressure. Please describe one tough situation you found yourself in with a co-worker or
manager and how you handled that particular situation.
Answer Guide: Answer should show how you are able to work under stress and how you don’t
crack under pressure.

4. Interview Question: When faced with a work-related problem, what steps do you take to
address the issue?
Answer Guide: Applicant should have an analytical approach to problem solving and use
innovative methods.
 5. Interview Question: Describe a position you have held where you problem solving skills were
regularly tested.
Answer Guide: Answer should show you problem solving skills in a positive light and promote
your analytical skill level.

6. Interview Question: There are thousands of possible careers. Why do you want to follow this
particular career?
Answer Guide: Job seekers who really want this job, will be quick, definite and forceful when
explaining why.

7. Interview Question: Tell me about a task that really tested your analytical abilities?
Answer Guide: Job seeker should mention a time where he/she had to use reason and logic to
resolve a problem. Job seeker may have analyzed all the relevant information and created a
good, effective solution.

8. Interview Question: What else should we know about you?

Answer Guide: Take this opportunity to sell yourself and think about possible items you forgot
to mention.

9. Interview Question: How confident are you?

Answer Guide: Applicant should answer the question instantly and forcefully while maintaining
full eye contact. Also pay close attention to body language: Is the applicant's body language
congruent with his answer?

10. Interview Question: How do you handle negative feedback from very angry clients? How do you
respond to him/her?
Answer Guide: Applicant should be able to manage customer complaints without being
dominated; should not be over-whelmed by a disapproving customer.

PUZZLE TEST

Puzzle:
One person has some money in his pocket, He visits four temple on the way. As soon as he enters a
temple, his money gets double and he offers Rs. 100 in each temple thus his pocket gets empty after he
returns from the fourth temple. Now the question is how much money he had initially ?

Solution:
Let’s assume, person starts with Rs x
After 1st temple visit, he is left with Rs (2x-100)
After 2nd temple visit, he is left with Rs (4x-300)
After 3rd temple visit, he is left with Rs (8x-700)
After 4th temple visit, he is left with Rs (16x-1500), which is zero (as he is left with empty pockets)
Hence he started of with x i.e. Rs 1500/16 i.e. Rs 93.75
Answer: Rs 93.75

Puzzle:
The owner of a banana plantation has a camel. He wants to transport his 3000 bananas to the market,
which is located after the desert. The distance between his banana plantation and the market is about
1000 kilometer. So he decided to take his camel to carry the bananas. The camel can carry at the
maximum of 1000 bananas at a time, and it eats one banana for every kilometer it travels.

What is the most bananas you can bring over to your destination?
Solution:
First of all, the brute-force approach does not work. If the Camel starts by picking up the 1000 bananas
and try to reach point B, then he will eat up all the 1000 bananas on the way and there will be no
bananas left for him to return to point A.

So we have to take an approach that the Camel drops the bananas in between and then returns to point
A to pick up bananas again.

Since there are 3000 bananas and the Camel can only carry 1000 bananas, he will have to make 3 trips
to carry them all to any point in between
SOME OTHER QUESTIONS

1. Interview Questions
o Tell me about yourself?
o Why Do you want to join this company??
o Tell me about this company
o Why this role is suitable for you??
o Do you hv knowledge about bond??
o What u saw when u reach at Signature Tower??

2. What do you think India is lacking?

ANSWER: The old school guys always have a bad impression about youngsters. They think the
present generation is less patriotic and lack maturity. They wish to understand how much you care
for your nation or think about it when they ask you questions like these. It would be great to have a
clear answer with statistics ready for questions like these. If you mention poverty, illiteracy, lack of
proper leadership or any other point, have facts and figures to support what you say.

LINK FOR THESE QUESTIONS

http://content.wisestep.com/commonly-asked-interview-questions-for-freshers-with-answers/

http://www.crazyforcode.com/camel-bananas-puzzle/

http://www.crazyforcode.com/money-initially/

https://www.glassdoor.co.in/Interview/Xceedance-Interview-Questions-E1049260.htm