Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Lutron Electronics
Entrevista
Went through first phone interview that lasted slightly over an hour. It was a very awkward interview that was STRICTLY technical. I was not asked a single question about myself or my experience. The interviewer also did not seem to know anything about me as he thought I was a candidate from a completely different state. It was very disconnected and impersonal making me not want to pursue a second interview. Interviewer also noted that it was "against company policy" to provide contact information for a follow-up which felt a bit fishy. He also didn't seem terribly enthusiastic about the company and seemed to have a hard time "selling" the company to me when I asked questions about the company.
Preguntas de entrevista [5]
Pregunta 1
Describe the stress/strain curve. He referenced the stress strain curve/asked questions about it many other times throughout the interview as well.
Was required to draw out a large chart and provide details such as start-up costs, materials, time to market, etc. about various manufacturing methods such as injection molding, casting, etc.
Lots of questions about manufacturing methods with a STRONG focus on injection molding processes, which felt a bit forward for an entry-level/new grad position. Also some focus on other plastic manufacturing processes like extrusion.
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Lutron Electronics
Entrevista
The first interview was a "technical interview" with no indication of this. I walked into the interview not knowing it would essentially be a quiz and little to no questioning about my actual resume. To be fair it was general engineering questions most mechanical engineers will learn in college. They asked me to draw a few graphs, fill in some tables, and to take apart a "click pen" and to describe what each piece was made of and the manufacturing process used for each part.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Draw the stress-strain curve of a ductile material and explain the plot.
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Lutron Electronics
Entrevista
Not a good experience. I felt very disrespected in terms of both my time (they wanted me to interview for 7 hours straight) and the interviewers’ questions/responses during the interview process. The questions don’t make sense/are vague and when I tried asking for clarification they would only repeat themselves. When I was giving answers, they would respond with “are you sure?” And “are you really happy with that answer?” And did not go on to correct me or give feedback. Very low energy from all of the engineers I interviewed with (who were all very white and very male I might add). Did a super weird role play exercise which was unnecessarily intense and quite frankly, a waste of my time. I have interviewed with and received offers from top engineering companies, 2 of which had an intense technical portion with a follow up panel presentation (and I did not ever feel disrespected, treated unfairly, or like I was being strung along with no regard for my time like I did at Lutron). I don’t know if this company is struggling to hire, but they must be with how bad this experience was. By the time I went on to second round of interviews I was already over it and knew this company was not for me. I went forward with it because the interviews were prescheduled and I did not want to appear flaky, but in hindsight, I should have cancelled it before enduring 2 more hours of feeling talked down to and not listened to. I think they forget that an interview goes both ways. Would not recommend.
Preguntas de entrevista [2]
Pregunta 1
What material is this product made of that I am showing to you over video call?
Role play: pretend you are an employee on your first day of work at Lutron. Deal with (insert problem that no first day employee would ever be required to solve) and find a solution in an hour. They also gave me random fake phone numbers and characters I had to “interact” with. No breaking character. The whole thing was extremely weird.
There was one Zoom interview so far. The interview was all technical. They quizzed me on statics, thermo, manufacturing (which I hadn't learned much of). Prepare stress-strain curves and manufacturing of pens
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
How would you manufacture the components of a pen.