I applied online. The process took 8 months. I interviewed at Caterpillar (East Peoria, IL) in Nov 2014
Interview
Interview was based on STAR Method, Situation, Task, Accomplishments, Resolution. Have to talk like a robot and answer their questions going over each of the four letters in STAR. There is a group of people, usually 3 people that will interview you. Each of them takes turns asking questions, just to make them feel like they are all participating in the hiring process. If you pass the questions and they like you as a person, you might get an offer. If you do bad and they don't like you, you don't even get a phone call to tell you that you suck. You usually end up calling them and asking and they tell you you suck later.
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Caterpillar (Peoria, IL) in Aug 2012
Interview
Interview was completely Behavioral Interview with 3 panel memebers from Manufacturing.
Questions were:
*Tell me about yourself.
*How do you relate your experience to this position.
*Give us an instance where you had to implement a change in the process and how you made the change collobrating with the operators.
*Tell us where you had a difficult situation with a customer and how you handled it ( Customer can be anyone from other departments seeking your presence)
*In detail tell us about your best accomplishment and why and how it made a change to your project.
* Also detail us your bad experience and how you dealt with it.
*Tell us about your experience working with shop floor operators and how do you communicate process changes effectively to them.
*Give us few examples of your procces improvment methodologies which and how it made a change to the process.
The interview went on for 2hrs asking about different scenarios based on my experience and purely STAR related questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you deal with a unhappy customer. Give us an example if you had one if not, from your prior experience how do you plan to work on making them satisfied.
