The interview process already published online. I will only focus on 2 final rounds. The Assessment Center takes a whole day, from 9am to 7pm. There are 3 rounds, 2 in the morning, then lunch, then 1 in the afternoon. The 1st rounds is about team work. A case study of a drink company is presented and you have to choose the 2 best suppliers for the company. There are 6 suppliers and 6 critera to judge. Each candidates (6 in total) will be represent a department from the company, who are instructed to favor 1 supplier and disqualify 1 supplier. The point of the test is to evaluate the ability to work in team, respect, reason, protect idea, contributing idea, collaborating skill, not the result (examiners do not even ask about the result, they assess when you work and discuss). 2nd round is about choosing investing plan. 3 investing plan are provided with different context, risk, opportunity. You have to break it down in 25 min, then present your opinion to 2 examiners. Again, it is not about the choice, it is about how you reason and support your claim. The examiner will try to shake your reason, hold on to it (of course with reason, support and claim). 3rd round is about making marketing plan under time pressure. A 10 - page-or-more document provided including email, reference, some data. 55 min is allowed to read and prepare Powerpoint presentation (laptop and mouse provided, and it is shorter than you might think). Then you present your idea, execution plan. The point is to test your creativity and reasoning ability under pressure. Time management is crucial. Final Meeting with head of function is rather informal. It is all about you up to this point. Note that up to this point, it is not the matter of ability any more, it is the matter of commitment and orientation (you can't show them your career path that is way off track to what they provide, or any sign that you may have low commitment to the program). I suggest the 90-first-day plan to show your commitment. Be serious for what your say. And good luck!

The interview was not difficult and the recruiters seemed nice enough, but their entire operation was plagued by disfunction. BAT appears to be running their U.S. recruiting out of Costa Rica. They said their process is broken down into four steps: a pymetrics assessment, an interview with a recruiter, an interview with the hiring team, and a final assessment. From the beginning there was chaos. After completing the pymetrics assessment I was placed on two different recruiter's lists. The first recruiter that reached out interviewed me for the wrong position. I had applied for law and external affairs, but I was being interviewed for a production job. However, since it was the first interview many of the questions were simply basic "get to know you" questions. It wasn't until the final two or three questions that something seemed off. The second recruiter reached out around a week later. I assumed that I had made it to the next stage in their process. However, as soon as we began to speak it became clear it was the exact same interview. The second recruiter checked and sure enough they had made a mistake and interviewed me for the wrong position in the management program. They said they would simply carry over my answers from the first interview. However, since my first interview was for a production process position, they didn't have my answers for the job I actually applied for. I received a boiler plate rejection letter two days later with most of the empty fields blank. The letter was from BAT, not one of the recruiters, and the position I was rejected from was blank. Because there was so much confusion in their process and I wasn't sure if I was being rejected from the production job or the legal job, I reached out for clarification. My email was ignored.