Applied for a summer internship as a junior year student. Applied online and was immediately required to complete two sets of basic online tests:

• Simple information processing/math on some charts
• Cognitive test that you are required to find the next image based on a sequence of images

to complete the application.

Got an email within a week for a phone screening. The phone screening was completely non-technical, including questions such as "Why JP Morgan?" and things about my past experience.

After another week, I was asked to complete an online Java 6 test (standard for the financial industry, I believe) that includes things from basic Java knowledge to Swing and other package-specific questions. At the same time, I was invited to the Assessment Center.

The Assessment Center includes one group discussion + presentation and two interviews. You are given a few emails, articles, and other information about a project, and the group is supposed to prepare for 40 minutes, and give a 15-minute presentation + 20-minute Q&A with the assessors.

One interview was with a senior engineer and one was with a manager. Again, no technical questions were involved. Things asked included my past projects and other behavioral questions such as "When did you get into a problem that you could have avoided?"

Got back to me in 2 days for an offer, but with only a week to consider.

Lack of technical questions during interview