The application was very easy and the video interview was better than a few others I had done. I got through to the assessment centre and this was when I got a bad feeling about the company. Even though Vodafone is a huge, multi-million pounds corporation they still did not offer to reimburse any money whatsoever towards travel expenses. The day cost me £100 because the day started at 10am and because my university is far away I had to stay in a hotel the night before and the train was very expensive because they only gave less than a week's notice. This meant that I could hardly even afford food for the next few weeks. Vodafone could have just offered to pay a just £20 contribution and I'd have been happy. I have done interviews with tiny startups and they have always reimbursed a part of the travel expenses. This suggested that Vodafone would have been a pretty stingy company to work for. The assessment day itself was exhausting and brutal. They had a group task to start with where you were expected to read around 50 pages of notes in 5 minutes and then discuss this with your group. The group had around 8 people and a few boys wouldn't stop speaking or let others speak - it was very difficult to get a word in edgeways. We then had to give a group presentation on a very complex issue with virtually no time to prepare. The individual presentation and interview were okay, except they concentrated far too much on examples of customer satisfaction when the role I applied for would have no interaction with customers - very odd.

5 questions asked, fairly straightforward and easy. Then asked to complete two online assessments afterwards which didn’t take long. Got to re-record answer and was given two minutes Why Vodafone, why this role etc