I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Eaton
Interview
First a shortlist was made based on the resume of the candidates who applied for the post, then one technical interview which was basically a knock-out round and then one HR round of interview was taken. As the company is recruiting for the post of engineer, they are looking for candidates who are expected to know 'in and out' of their subject domain. One needs to prepare well for the technical interview; HR round is not that difficult.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There is nothing sort of unexpected. The interviewer asks very general questions and that too from your resume only. So one needs to be prepared to face questions from his/her resume. You should know everything in detail about the projects that you have done and mentioned in the resume. When I was trying to explain the interviewer one of my projects, he suddenly interrupted and asked me few bookish questions related to the project I did.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Eaton (Cleveland, OH) in Jun 2013
Interview
The interview process is not well managed. I didn’t get the interview list till the last minute. Plan changed several times. It seems that they just wanted to go through the processes instead of real hiring.
It had been more than half a year now; I hadn’t even got any feedback and the reimbursement after several times follow-ups. I think that is very assaulting and left very negative impressions about the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There is no unexpected question. Asked a lot of behavioral questions. Nothing Difficult.
But it is kind of interesting about one of the interviewer’s attitude. I don’t know it is pressure test or something else. One of them was very arrogant and even not sitting directly to you.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Eaton (Galesburg, MI) in Sep 2013
Interview
My department at a low-ranked research university was contacted about a potential co-op assignment to help with forecasting in the after-market transmission unit. Since I was essentially the econometrics guru among the PhD students, my name got passed along.
They called while I was out camping in Canada, and it took me a week to get back to them. We eventually set up a phone interview after around three weeks, and then after three another three weeks a two-hour in person interview was set up.
I felt the interview went alright, but I failed some of the traditional questions, espc: "what interest do you have in truck or automotive manufacturing?" (very little) never heard back from them after that except for an automated message via brassring three months later stating that the position had been canceled.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Surprisingly tricky was "Explain what Eaton does?" I would (and did) describe it as conglomerate who's core business focuses on high-stress moving components and hydraulics, but the HR guy didn't like that.