The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Solvay (Santo André, ) in Aug 2024
Interview
The job application process spent 2 months. First, I was contacted by HR talent department and them scheduled a interview. It was light questions focusing in behavior, motivations and current career. Our values will be asked to define if your profile matchs with the company.
After 1 week, they scheduled the manager interview. Three people participated in this step, the future leader, 1 colleagues of the same department and another manager from other area. They ask questions about the technical background, how you could develop some reliability structure and examples of development projects you have made in your career. They asked about vibration analysis and what could be examples of new technologies applied to reliability engineering as well.
After 2 weeks, they scheduled the industrial director interview, this step was on-site. The director made clear what he was expecting for this position and what were the soft skills necessary to conducted the future demand. To confirm if I have this characteristics, he asked about some examples in my career that I used those skills in work challenges. He asked about EHS behavior challenges and what I would do in some cases to improve peoples safety and conscience.
All the steps english was necessary, the interviews was in portuguese but they assured that you speak english asking some questions. It was a job request very clear in the job application description.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are your personal values?
How would you implement a reliability department?
How you do develop a vibration analysis program?
What are the tools you use to develop reliability studies?
Can you convince the shop floor people being a transformation agent in the maintenance culture?
Could you give an example of a project that you are very proud to be part of?
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I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Solvay (Deptford Township, NJ) in Sep 2022
Interview
Interviews were well organized and conducted in timely manner. Follow ups were done on time. Questions were tough but specific to job. Phone screening followed by phone interview followed by onsite interview.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Solvay (Cincinnati, OH) in Jan 2019
Interview
Multistep interview process with teams of multiple individuals at the site. Each interview lasted about 45 minutes to an hour and was a mixture of behavioral based questions and technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time when you had to make a difficult decision.