Baker Hughes Interview Questions & Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Interviewed Dec 2011 in Houston, TX (took a day)

I was contacted by phone by this company to schedule a phone interview. I was able to schedule it for the following week, which was pretty fast. A recruiter contacted me on the scheduled day right on time! I was very impressed by her punctuality in honoring the time of the phone interview. She actually contacted me from Dallas, TX even though the position was located in Houston. I recall her being very humurous on the phone, which was way more than I would've expected. I thought it was going to be a pretty cut and dry interview, but she actually made it more personable by not only asking me questions about my experience and the position, but taking a personal interest in me. Since I'm out of state, she even asked me about why I was looking into Houston, TX. She basically made the interview so much easier and I could tell that she liked my answers because we talked way longer than the 30 minutes that the interview was supposed to last. We were on the phone for over and hour and even found out that we're both originally from similar areas. She started selling the company to me (another good sign) telling me about all the benefits of working there. She orally stated that she liked my experience and even though I didn't have all the position asked for, she thought I could make a valuable contribution to the team. Anyways, the conversation eventually ended with her saying that she would pass my information on to the hiring manager. I thought that was a very, very good thing! I was eager to see what was going to happen. She told me it would probably be after the first of January since I interviewed close to the end of December of 2011. I let her know when I could fly out for an interview and got her email address so that I could send a thank you note. I figured it might take them a little longer than ordinary to contact me since my phone interview was right before the holidays. Although I sent her the thank you note right after the interview, I waited for almost a month before following up again just to give them plenty of time. In the meantime, I never heard from them, so I decided to email that recruiter again. The first time I sent her an email, I got no response. I waited a couple of more weeks and it was well into February by this time. I tried contacting her again and this time she replied very briefly saying that the hiring managers really don't tell her anything once she passes candidate info along to them. After February ended, I was pretty sure that Baker Hughes no longer wanted to pursue my candidacy, so I moved on. However, it sure would've been nice if they at least let me know since I did actually interview for the position.