BAT interview questions

Initial interview with the manager and another manager from human resources. After a couple of days you are invited for a full day of assessment. This involves an 'in box' exercise, sales pitch exercise and human resource issue handling exercise. The 'in box' is done personally and submitted in a closed envolope but the others involve preparing a short presentation and presenting to the interviewers as well as role playing with one of the interviewers. The final step is a customary meet and greet with the Head of marketing. The overall process took around 1 month but the delay was due to travel plans of the final interviewer. My overall impression of BAT Korea was how serious they took each assessment. This was true after I joined but the overall tone and manner of the culture are more casual and relaxed.

Post application there are a total of 4 rounds of testing and interviewing. Following a psychometric test, a telephone interview is conducted. On being selected, the candidate is invited to participate in an Assessment Centre which involves spending a full day at the company in simulated situations making decisions as part of a senior management team. On being selected from this process the candidate is then invited to a final interview. The maximum age is 25 with a minimum requirement of a university degree. There is no work experience required although the assessment centre is quite hard, of not impossible, for those who have never worked before. There is no request for grades as the process rewards ability and soft skills.