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).
Met at career fair. Then, on campus interview and lunch. I felt like they were sizing up culture fit with the lunch. Dress nice including a nice coat if its cold out. They're watching you! I ended up interning with Eaton and loved it. Hiring process was seamless and as expected.
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Question 1
Tell me about a time where you dealt with ambiguity
I applied online. I interviewed at Eaton (Roztoky, Central Bohemian) in Jun 2012
Interview
Only one interview with my tech. manager, organisational manager and another evaluator participating.
Tech. interview was quite frankly a joke; anyone could've passed that.
My to-be organisational manager asked just a few common questions and then one that, as I realised after joining, should have repelled me in the first place: "How do you manage stress?" What they actually wanted to know was what do I do in my spare time. That's Eaton in a nutshell; employees are there to work and die for the company, their other activities are considered "stress management".
In my case, the hiring process was quite fast (less than a month), since they needed to find a candidate quite quickly. A colleague of mine, however, who applied earlier, didn't hear from Eaton for 1/2 a year after his application and was quite surprised when they wrote back.
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Question 1
From tech. point of view, the questions were very easy, indeed; the most difficult was how to write a variadic macro for C preprocessor (so you've got the idea).
From org./HR point of view, the questions were like everywhere else (except for the weirdness above).
I spent approx. 15 minutes on a call with the Human Resources person. He seemed impressed with my skills and decided to schedule another call with him and the Sales Manager.
After rearranging my day to be available for the second call, it never happened. After waiting 10 minutes for him to call, I rang his line and there was no answer. I contacted the operator to have him paged and he was out of the office. I left a voice message asking if call was being rescheduled. He called me back a few hours later saying he would have to reschedule.
We rescheduled. This time I emailed to confirm the call 24 hours in advance and it was confirmed. Again, I got no call after rearranging my work day again to take the call. I did not bother to call nor email again.