I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Principal Financial Group (Des Moines, IA) in Jan 2014
Interview
Mostly aroundcharacter questions. Are you willing to reflect what it means to be a principal employee? A description of all the pro female items that Principal offers. Such as functions, women in leadership, best place for women to work.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When an employee express's an opinion different than my own how did I handle that?
Easy interview questions - situational. HR person seemed very nice and honest. Questions were about things I have done at my previous job and how it connected to traits they were looking for
I interviewed at Principal Financial Group (Minneapolis, MN)
Interview
Had to post a video of me describing my resume during the application that was stressful. Actual interview was standard. Did not move forward because there was a hiring freeze at the time.
I had given my interviews through the pool campus. Hence there was brief introduction to tell what the company does and what will our role be, then there was shortlisting via an aptitude test and 3 rounds of interviews after.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They mostly asked situation based questions to test how quickly you can come up with solutions to management/ team/ daily task related problems. Also asked me what was my career plan , where do you see yourself 5 years down the line.
