I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at SunTrust (Atlanta, GA) in Sept 2012
Interview
Interview consisted of quick phone conversation with the recruiter and a phone conversation with a person already in the group. I was pretty surprised by the lack of professionalism shown by SunTrust here. The moment I was no longer under consideration, I would expect that the company would have let me know, but nearly 3 weeks passed and no word. After 3 phone calls, I finally got a response that an offer had been extended and accepted by another external candidate. HR representative was rude in her written email response.
quick, easy process, about three interviews if I remember correctly with the first one being virtual, the second being a phone interview and the final one being in the office with a super-day kind of format
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Don't remember the questions as it was several years ago
Using data on GDP of a country of your choice, produce the best ARIMA model that you can for that GDP, where best is defined in terms of forecast accuracy for a minimum of ten out-of-sample values. You should discuss each step of building your model and present the related results, as appropriate.
Applied online, talked to the hiring manager over phone with mostly technical questions and not much behavioral questions. Followed up with recruiter and said they would update in one to two weeks, never got any updates from them.