Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Johnson Controls as 50% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Communications Specialist and Intern rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Communications Specialist and Intern roles were rated as the easiest.
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I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Johnson Controls (Hanahan, SC) in Jul 2022
Interview
I saw that JCI had put on a “help wanted” website that they needed a Senior Fire Alarm Designer so I applied. Five weeks went by and I finally got an email from one of their in house recruiters. She was nice at first and told me she wanted to speak to me on Microsoft Teams to see if I was qualified for the position. The interview with her went well and she told me she would schedule an interview with several other people from JCI fire alarm design divisions. Several more weeks went by and then I finally got my next interview scheduled with several other fire alarm division managers (all for the same Microsoft Teams call). I was a little surprised when everyone on the call were women. I certainly believe in equality but equal for men and women. Anyway the interview seemed to go well and I knew all the answers to the questions they asked me. We ended the interview and I was expecting to hear from JCI’s recruiter any day. That didn’t happen. I ended up having to contact her after a few weeks to find out if the interview went well. It eventually went well and she told me I would need to interview with the local fire alarm manager for my area. Several more weeks went by and finally got my interview BUT they, JCI, wanted me to get the COVID vaccine shot before I had my interview. I got the shot the day before the interview and thank goodness because I got COVID, maybe from the shot, a few days later. The interview seemed to go well but once again the manager was a woman. Even the person utilizing AutoCAD for her designs was a woman. I thought the interview went well because the thirty minute interview went an hour. I left with every clue that
I had the job. Then weeks went by again and no word from the recruiter. I emailed her and saw she had opened my email but she didn’t respond. The few days later I emailed her again. Again the email was opened but no response. I finally called and left her a message under a different name and phone number to get her to call me back. She was unbelievably rude to me on the phone when I caught her in her lie. She said she would let me know but she never did. I found out from a friend at JCI in that office that they had just promoted the female AutoCAD designer instead. That was their (JCI’s) intention all along. So I basically wasted 5 months of my life and a ton of my time to just be used as a pawn. To this day I tell people who are guys to not even bother applying for anything fire alarm related. Thank goodness all have listened to me and went somewhere else.
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Question 1
Fire alarm detector spacing and distance from the floor was one. Honestly I was asked dozens of questions during the interview process but it’s all a haze now.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Johnson Controls (Philadelphia, PA) in Apr 2024
Interview
TL;DR Summary = Run far away from them. It was the most disorganized interview process I've ever been apart of. I'm embarrassed for this team and the process I participated in. How they are experts in safety, but don't know how to follow a basic process is comical. I was contacted by the "Senior" Recruiter to apply & interview with the local team and never spoke to the Recruiter. It was the first red flag of scheduling me to go on-site without speaking to anyone in recruitment, but proceeded because they are a reputable company (or so I thought).. After the on-site, I inquired on my status with the local team and the "Senior" Recruiter responded with, 'Who did you interview with? What day and what job?' I had to find out the the people's names and info because she did not know who I met with (she works there!)
The recruiter was completely unaware of what stage of the process I was (after 3 rounds). I was continually giving her information to update her. The last straw was the 3rd round when neither the local team or the Recruiter knew where I was in the process.
Today, I reviewed my application in their system and it still shows I'm interviewing yet the process is long over. Needless to say, it was the wrong fit amid such disorganization.
3 rounds of the interview includes HR and Manager round which is quiet easy and u will have prohibition of Months to learn and give an assignment interview again after few months