I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Westpac Group (Brisbane) in Feb 2025
Interview
Phone call, then online test, then a remote video interview where instead of actually conducting a typical candidate interview, they performed a security audit of what I do at my current role. Just a bizarre way of interviewing candidates. Do I do X thing at my job? No. Bad! Did I do Y-related thing? No. Bad! Why is your security posture not like ours? I don't know, I guess we're not a bank? You're a terrible candidate! How dare you apply for this role! Some advice to Westpac: things that are bank-specific should be trained into employees when they're on-boarded - you can't expect everyone to have the same hardened security posture when they don't work at a bank. I say this as someone who works at a ISO270001 company and undergoes yearly security training and has been certified.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you manage and prioritise your're workload under pressure?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Westpac Group (Sydney) in Jan 2025
Interview
Video call with 2 technical people.
Overall I found the interviewers couldn't communicate clearly what they wanted and that lead to some unnecessary back and forth just to figure out what they really wanted to know.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Westpac Group (Melbourne) in Feb 2024
Interview
Easy interview, very nice people with relevant questions. I felt relaxed and had quite a bit of interesting conversation in between questions. The follow up process was quick and professional.