I had a great experience throughout the interviewing process. On campus interviews for the first round and at headquarters for the final round. Between interviews, I had to take many different on-line assessments, ranging from personality tests to finance aptitude tests. At the final interview, I had to present a case to high level management and also had two one on one interviews. Everyone at CSX seems to enjoy their job and the people there were a pleasure to meet.

The candidates had different first round interviews. Since I was close to corporate HQ, I had an in-person screening while others had a phone interview. If you passed the first round, you were invited to Jacksonville for the final round and put up the night before at the Omni Hotel near the Jacksonville Landing. The night before the actual interview, they 'require' you go to dinner with members of the finance team (two VPs and one former management trainee were at mine). A week before the interview, HR will send you a case that requires you to utilize some financial analysis skills and then present it in PowerPoint format to a panel of two to three people, typically high-level VPs within the finance department. From what I can tell, the case has been recycled for years and is pretty generic, but serves more of a test to see whether or not your assumptions (everyone will have different answers) can be backed up when under the scrutiny of VPs and how your presentation skills are. The actual day of interviews was fairly light. They broke up the group into two interview groups (morning and afternoon). There were only two interviews, each with a member of the finance team and it was about three to four behavioral questions, nothing else. The company is what you would expect from a mature industry...the actual building is old as hell and the culture seems very corporate (the sight of neverending cube farms brought back chills). There seems to be a big push for diversity as the previous group of Finance Management Trainees was majority female and had a couple of minorities (one black female, one Hispanic female, and an Asian guy). My interview group had four minorities (including myself) so take it for what's it worth at the Old Boy's Club at CSX. I got the rejection email within 2.5 weeks of the interview (expected it), but I know someone else got an offer within 4 working days of his interview so that should give you a rough idea on whether or not you will get the gig.