Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Eaton as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Service Operations Manager and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Service Operations Manager and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Eaton takes an average of 21 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Service Operations Manager had the quickest hiring process (on average 21 days), whereas Service Operations Manager roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 21 days).
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Eaton (Cleveland, OH) in Jul 2013
Interview
Started with a phone screening - very relaxed. Discussed education and experience with corporate HR representative. Next, a phone interview with the onsite HR rep and the Engineering Supervisor - relaxed general discussion about my background with more detail than the phone screening. Finally, onsite interview - interviewed with 4 people. 95% of the questions were behavioral questions. Have answers ready.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was your biggest contribution to the company you currently work for?
I applied online. I interviewed at Eaton (Highland, IL)
Interview
The structure of the interview was a panel interview with two different people, three times for an entry level customer service position. So you are basically, interviewing with 6 people. It was a little over the top.
It started out pretty standard, going into the duties of the job and history of the company and then them wanting to get an understanding about you, your qualifications, and them going into behavioral based questions.
The last interview consisted of interviewing with two younger managers on the third round and was the most awkward.
The first two interviews had gone decent, but the last interview was bad. One showed up almost half way through the interview, and after reviewing my resume for a moment immediately insulted me about having so many jobs in the last NINE years, it averaged about three years at each job, granted these jobs were from right out of high school to after having graduated from college to being at my current employer. Both managers who interviewed me insulted me at least twice because they were just making arrogant statements.
I came very close to just getting up and leaving because if I wasn't even employed with them and have been treated badly already then I was thinking to myself what would it be like working for these people? Due to the last two managers, this experience was terrible. Two weeks later, I received the "thanks but no thanks email." Thanks Eaton, I already found a better job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"Tell me about a time that you had a difficult customer and no matter what you did you could not make them happy. What were the steps you took and what was the result?
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Eaton in Dec 2010
Interview
One Technical round followed by HR interview. Normal questions - from basic to advanced as per your response. Nothing special.
Initail screening was done based on CGPA>8. Direct technical interview. If passed in it, call for HR interview. Results announced immediately after all the interviews are over.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The typical HR questions which always irritates, still you need to keep on bluffing with real life examples.