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Second interview Poor Questions were easy but really irrelevant... They wanted to employ a Technical Project Manager in I&C and Electrical domain. In the interview an expert asked me some irrelevant questions: 1) they showed me a P&ID diagram of lubrication system( if I remember correctly) on a poor quality screen and asked me about some mechanical components! Why shall I know component on your oil system? What is important here? Understanding the main Idea & concept of lubrication system or being familiar with your especial components ? Then what is the role of your claimed on job training there ? 2) they asked me about their own especial process of design and implementation and test! They don't understand that when an engineer have not had a direct cooperation with Siemens yet, how he could know about Siemens especial process of design? 3) according to their process, the first year was on job training. If I shall know everything of your especial system, then one year training w Turns useless, or they only wanted to have someone from their interns and this interview was just a formal process of employment to have some candidates from extern
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Technical Project Manager

Interviewed at Siemens Energy

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Nov 22, 2022

Second interview Poor Questions were easy but really irrelevant... They wanted to employ a Technical Project Manager in I&C and Electrical domain. In the interview an expert asked me some irrelevant questions: 1) they showed me a P&ID diagram of lubrication system( if I remember correctly) on a poor quality screen and asked me about some mechanical components! Why shall I know component on your oil system? What is important here? Understanding the main Idea & concept of lubrication system or being familiar with your especial components ? Then what is the role of your claimed on job training there ? 2) they asked me about their own especial process of design and implementation and test! They don't understand that when an engineer have not had a direct cooperation with Siemens yet, how he could know about Siemens especial process of design? 3) according to their process, the first year was on job training. If I shall know everything of your especial system, then one year training w Turns useless, or they only wanted to have someone from their interns and this interview was just a formal process of employment to have some candidates from extern

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Jan 4, 2024

Q: What are you good at? Q: What are you learning about? Q: Example of leaving something better at previous companies. Q: Time you changed your mind about something important. Q: Past companies worked for and why you left. Q: How do you go about researching? Q: What do you do when something goes wrong? Q: What would you do differently in your next role? Q: People who liked and didn't like you; what would they say about you. Q: Describe a time a project went horribly wrong. Q: Time you felt for or against a decision at work. Q: Based on your experience, how do you enable project management to effectively partner with product and engineering teams? What are the important factors to consider and how have you been successful in building these relationships? Q: How would you design a system for tracking team velocity and quality? What metrics would you use, how would you expose those metrics to executive leadership and at what cadence? Think about what data is useful versus what is non-actionable or unnecessary. The tools at your disposal are Jira, Github, Confluence, Lucid Chart and Miro. Q: How would you define the KPIs for the Product Team? What do you expect to change as the company grows?

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