The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Philips (London, England) in Jan 2018
Interview
Telephone, first stage cv & competency qs, final stage presentation with LM and sales director.
They won’t even offer you a glass of water or drink before the presentation. They will interrogate you in the interviews to the point you don’t know why you were invited to come for an interview, or final interview. The interviewers were all at Philips for 5+ years and felt a bit culty/if joining it wouldn’t be a very open and welcoming culture.
Maybe they were trying to interrogate (aggressively not constructively) candidates to test how they perform under pressure like how a buyer might, but not sure this is suitable for a first stage/getting to know what a candidates experience is (post telephone).
HR were good and encouraging for first stage, but they did leave me a voicemail job rejection. Companies need to realise the impact of their recruitment processes and their treatment of candidates like a number is not okay.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why have you not been promoted at your current company, why should we give you a promotion? Are you resilient?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Philips (Guildford, England) in Mar 2017
Interview
A 3 stage interview process. Initially I had a telephone interview with the member of the HR team. I then had 2 further face to face interviews, where I was interviewed by Senior members of the sales team. The second interview involved a presentation to the interviewers, after being given data on the current product range to review and present back.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Philips in Jun 2010
Interview
Had a friend who worked for the company, and he presented my resume to the hiring manager.
Started with HR interview, usual experience. Met with potential manager for initial field interview, standard but very respectful. Flew to Boston area for final interview with VP, again very standard interview techniques, mostly behavioral questions. Many questions about what I knew about the company and products; something I've learned is important to everyone. Culture seemed great. I did not get the position and was very disappointed. Overall, a very good experience.