Online application with extensive psych eval[ the sort that makes you choose among only bad choices in every conceivable combination as opposed to the ones requiring you to be obsequious to the point of brown nose) if you pass they phone you. The person talks so fast you just say yes unless you have the temerity to ask them to speak reasonably. When you do you find your automatic yes agrees to really low salary, that you promise to have perfect attendance for 3 months and 97% thereafter on threat of dismissal if you don't and that you agree to work any damn time they feel like making you and start off by making everyone work a Saturday or Sunday. Then you go and take a typing/multitasking test. Again it's introduced by someone reading off a card so fast you cannot understand them. Although you are also holding one even just reading on your own is ineffective because you also have to keep an ear out in case they say anything not on the card and they do! The test gives you a few minutes to "learn and practice" a database system with 6 tabs, three data items on each tab, each one not listed but put into a sentence making recognizing them difficult. You can only get to certain tabs by going first through others. There's a submit button but since the same data appears on several tabs and is not filled when it appears after having filled it in on another tab it's unclear whether the data needs to be entered again, is remembered of if one was supposed to press the submit button on every page or on every record. Then you're bombarded with timed e-mails and phonecall recordings with the data scrambled. You have to try to fill in the data with no practice. Then there's a timed typing test. The test makes Lucy at the chocolate factory look like a walk in the park. When you flunk like I did, you are rejected like the bad egg on Willy Wanka.
The test is especially unfair to anyone with a lot of experience with cursors and fields that move differently, for example if you're already fast at typing a number you cant just type the area code you have to stop after the first digit and pick one of the choices rather than just typing it and moving on. Not only is that slower to a fast keypuncher, it breaks concentration from listening to the recording. It also tests only for a certain kind of learner flunking anyone who may be fast or become fast as needed but does not learn as the test intends.
All in all, the entire experience feels as if they are more interested in seeing how far you'll bend over and let them probe and thank them for the experience.
I applied online. I interviewed at GEICO (Indianapolis, IN) in Jan 2020
Interview
Very fair n prepares for you for what you will do there. Test and assessment. If you pass the test you get an interview. If you don’t I think you get to re take it. Phone interview then test then 1 on 1.