Pro practiceHead of Underwriting practice interview
Leading underwriting strategy, portfolio quality, pricing discipline, delegated authority and the response to deteriorating loss experience. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
A Pro practice interview, on the Pro plan from ₦5,000 a month billed yearly, or on Premium.
- Lead
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This executive interview tests how you lead underwriting across products, people and distribution channels. The panel is looking for disciplined portfolio decisions, credible governance and the ability to balance growth with sustainable risk selection. Expect to explain how you use claims and pricing evidence and how you challenge senior stakeholders.
How to prepare
- Review how you have set risk appetite, underwriting authorities and escalation thresholds across a portfolio.
- Prepare an example of corrective action you took when loss experience or exposure trends deteriorated.
- Be ready to explain how you judge rate adequacy when data is limited or market pressure is high.
- Map how underwriting should work with claims, actuarial, reinsurance, finance and distribution.
- Choose an example of developing specialist capability and improving decision consistency across a team.
Common mistakes
- Treating premium growth as success without discussing claims performance, exposure or capital.
- Giving rigid rules without explaining when expert judgement and referral are needed.
- Blaming sales or brokers instead of showing how you build commercial alignment.
- Describing governance as paperwork rather than a way to improve decisions.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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