Very easy and friendly. There was a formal interview And then a role play. It was quite stressful and it felt as though you were trying to be caught out but all in all it was thorough. Questions were rather difficult in the interview stage.

I applied online for the trainee underwriter role after couple of days I got an invite for a telephone interview which I passed and then got invited to the last stage which was the assessment center. This consisted of Icebreaker event, Role play then followed by a 1:1 competency based interview.

Firstly, a short online form, including the posting of my CV, which was very straightforward. A few days later, I was contacted to schedule a telephone interview, which lasted for around thirty minutes, and included standard interview questions (why I was applying for the specific job and why I had chosen Allianz, etc) as well as a run-through my CV. At the end of the telephone interview, I was told that I had been selected to attend an assessment centre the following week, which lasted for around three and a half hours. Here, the tasks were a group exercise (rank fifteen items in order of importance if you were stranded on a yacht), a half-an-hour interview with two supervisors, a role-playing exercise (try and effectively sell motor insurance according to the specific customer's specific needs), and a numeracy exam (fairly straightforward). The entire process, from applying for the job, to being successfully hired, took nine days.