Kantar Senior Business Analyst Interview Questions and Answers

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Overall you need to have great aptitude and answer the questions with the logic.

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - It is for SAS opening.
Always prepare your resume and practice mock interview as well as they help alot building confidence.

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I consulted my seniors for preparation of my resume. I believe that seniors provide the best provide you with the best possible insights in this regards.

Round: Test
Experience: The first round was the written test. The duration of the test was half an hour. The test consisted of questions on data interpretation, logical reasoning and analytics. The questions were pretty easy. The company shortlisted a lot of candidates for the Group Discussion (GD).

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The interview was, as I would call it, an HR and a puzzle based interview. Some questions from probability were also asked. The puzzles asked were tricky but easy at the same time. I cannot recall any of the puzzles that were asked.
Tips: Before appearing for the interview, I would suggest you to solve puzzles from a book named ‘Out of the Box’; the book contains some really good puzzles.

College Name: IIT ROORKEE

Round: Test
Experience: The written test had various sections. After the written test which was held online, few students were shortlisted for the interview process. There were a total of three rounds of interviews.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The questions asked from all the candidates in all the rounds were quite similar in nature. They were asking puzzles, numerical reasoning based questions and things which would require use of your analytical skills. The questions weren’t difficult and one can easily find them on placement preparation sites. They also tested me on my knowledge of core engineering subjects to ascertain whether I am serious about the tasks I have in hand.

They also asked few normal HR questions. Some of them were about my short term and long term goals and where do I see myself after three years. They also asked me the reason for shift to a non-core field company.

College Name: IIT ROORKEE
Motivation: I had appeared for the placement process for Mu Sigma as arranged by the placement committee of my college. There was no resume based selection and neither there was any group activity. The major criterion for being able to appear for the written test was the CGPA.

Round: Test
Experience: Half an hour test which had 5 C questions, 10 math and 10 on simple English.
Duration: 30 minutes

Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Preliminary Round: One Puzzle and a question on probability, I Couldn't answer that puzzle so I started talking about my internship in a great detail and this helped me to get to the next round.

General Tips: It will be of great help if you can solve simple mathematics problems with speed - CAT type.
Skill Tips: Make Sure you do all the common puzzles before you go to interview, E.g 100 gold coin/pirate one which keep repeating.
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL

Round: Test
Experience: Accuracy required
Tips: Easy just need more speed in calculations
Duration: 20 minutes
Total Questions: 15

Round: Problem Statement
Experience: Strategies required for buisness , simple coding
Tips: Strategies required for buisness , simple coding

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: A video round followed by GD will be conducted
Tips: Video round may have clips from films like pursuit of happiness and you have to write about video

Skills: Communication , Team work, Stress handling
College Name: SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY
Motivation: No need to prepare much being cool and self confident is enough