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TIAA CREF business/systems analyst internship interview?

I have a 30 min phone interview for an systems analyst internship..any recommendations or tips on how to amaze them??..any tips, inputs, or comments will help..thanksss

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1. TIAA CREF is a conservative retirement investment management house, mainly for public employees: http://www.tiaa-cref.org/ Your best strategy may not be to try to amaze them per se, but to deliver an impression of yourself that is honest, hard working, and quietly confident. You should emphasize how much you enjoy working with others, and earning responsibility by demonstrating accomplishments. If the interview will cover your technical skills, be prepared with examples of these - how you programmed a Monte Carlo risk simulation in Java, why you elected to use the wamp platform and JavaScript as your toolkit for your senior project, instead of Ruby on Rails. Be frank and forthcoming if you don't know the answer to something; nothing sounds worse to a technical manager than someone who is obviously trying to bullshit their way into the organization. If you've failed at something, and came away with a lessons learned analysis that was valuable, be ready with that story too. And if you're presented with logic test questions about tribesmen with terrible predilictions on South Sea islands, take a deliberate approach, ask questions in return, and explain your reasoning for answers that you give. Even if you don't get the answers right, being able to demonstrate a reasonable approach to the problem counts for something.