Baker Hughes Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – I applied directly through their careers website. Got a call after a month. First it was a informal Hr round on the phone. Then they had a techincal round on the phone again. Asked about my resume and past experience. It lasted for about an hour. Not very tough though. It was good. After 3 days they made an offer.

Interview Details – Applied in January. Heard nothing until I attended a RIGZONE virtual career fair in about March and chatted online with a BH rep. About two weeks later I had a phone screen, and about a month later I was invited to the Baker Hughes Experience in Houston.

The Baker Hughes Experience is fun. Don't worry about that if you like solving puzzles, presenting, doing groupwork, and stuff like that.

Now, here is the important part:

Baker did not tell us, UNTIL WE WERE IN TEXAS AT THE BH EXPERIENCE EVENT, that they were only hiring for two product lines, and that you are immediately tied to a product line upon accepting an offer into the FEDP role. You then must spend three years NOT in a rotational position living in the geographic area where you'll work, cut off from everything else. Furthermore, it is impossible to change product lines once you're in- if they assign you "Artificial Lift in Midland TX," then that means that you have to live in Midland TX and do artificial lift for your career, take it or leave it.

This is in complete opposition to what my recruiter on the phone screen told me. According to him, specialties are not assigned immediately and you rotate during the development program. This is not correct.

I was not interested in either of the two product lines that Baker Hughes decided to hire us for, and was caught very much by surprise that they would withhold this critical information until the first day of the interview.

Also at the event, Baker explained the development program. The "training" is really only a few seminar-type classes that last a couple days- doesn't seem to be very valuable or useful. Just go to YouTube and google "Hydraulic Fracturing."

The "project" in your third year as an FEDP is just a two-week period in which you think about and propose something. Seemed very mundane and looked as though Baker is trying to get credit for "being innovative, spurring though" without actually doing much.

I communicated the fact that I was not interested in either of the product lines that Baker waited to inform me they were hiring for, and, of course, did not get an offer. I think I dodged a bullet though because it did not seem to me through my experience that Baker is a high accountability, high performance organization that invests in its people and is honest and upfront.

Interview Details – attend the baker hughes experiance. Very competitive and difficult to receive an offer. Not a good place to start if you are a sophomore or have a lack of work experience. However it is a great company if you are able to get the internship. However I do not recommend this if you have no previous work experience as you will probably not get an offer.

Interview Details – Interviewed on campus for a position in Houston. A month later, I was invited to the BHE in OK. Didn't get the itinerary of the flight plan, hotel, etc. until the night before. BHE consisted of interviews with various hiring managers and a technical presentation of our choice. They tend to beat around the bush and take forever.

Interview Details – Recruiters came on campus; got asked for an interview within a minute of meeting up with the person there who is a senior engineer at the company. This was not surprising as I've already interned with another services company and an E&P company. Had this interview the next day on campus with two younger field engineers who asked mostly behavioral questions and about stuff on my resume. Lasted for about half an hour and I thought it went well. Received an email later on that I'd passed that step and was selected was a video interview.

Here's where it goes downhill. The engineers said I'd have the "Baker Hughes experience", but the email said I'd have a video interview. This was definitely unexpected. Anyways, what happens is they send you a link to the interview where you see recorded videos of a person siting there reading questions to you. You're supposed to answer by looking into your webcam and recording your responses. This is almost guaranteed to be less than a straightforward process because of two things.

One, it seems that Baker Hughes wants to recreate the process of a live interview without having to go through the pain of actually sending somebody from the company to do the interview in person. So you have this video of a person reading questions to you. When you're skyping with someone you tend to look at the person and not your webcam, and looking at your webcam is precisely what the interview website instructs you to do. But what comes naturally is you looking at the person on the screen. So you're consciously reminding yourself to keep looking into the webcam because you don't want to mess up your interview. In which case, why even bother to record this company rep reading these questions then? Out of all the people who came up with this idea, how is it possible that absolutely nobody thought that the question video would be redundant if the actual interview responses have to be those where you look into the camera? Infact, why even bother with a real person? Why not just send a list of questions and asking to record the responses to those? See, the whole point of real person to person contact is to establish a rapport where you get to gauge each other and determine if this person is a right fit for the company. Personally I think you can judge within 15 minutes of meeting a person whether or not he or she is the who you're looking for.

Secondly, the inherent problem of relying too much on technology like this is the fact that the playing field is no longer level. People have all kinds of computers and laptops, they use a large no. of browsers and have all kinds of internet speeds. You are told to have a webcam and reliable internet connection at the start and for the most part there's no problem with that. But the microphone has to be calibrated to a "suitable" level to pick up your voice level; but there are highs and lows in natural conversation and you can only check your recorded video at the start of the interview. Not too helpful there especially because if you shift your position a bit it throws off the calibration, and that's to be expected during the course you recording your responses. It's unrealistic to sit perfectly still and have a flat voice all for that duration.

As for the interview itself, the questions were pretty much the same as those asked in the on-campus interview. Nothing too special there.

I realize that I may be nitpicking here and these might seem like non-issues to most people but the fact of the matter is they are real. Personally I believe this was not the best way to go about the process and introduced the kind of issues mentioned above. I respect Baker Hughes as a company but it doesn't bode well when the engineers tell you one thing and an email tells you quite another. That's alright, one can roll with the punches and all that but I don't think I'll be applying here again, unless they sort this out.

Interview Details – Went through campus recruiting
First round - in person interview
Second round - video interview

Reason for Declining – Another job opportunity came up.

Interview Details – Got an interview through my university. Passed the first round successfully and receive and email congratulating me and saying I will be contacted soon for a second round. After a month received a rejection without an explanation.

Interview Details – There is phone interview first, the HR ask some behavior questions. An onsite interview afterward, you'll do a presentation about yourself and a group case study. You'll have breakfast and lunch with the managers too. Don't forget how you talk in the meal is part of the interview too.

Interview Details – Phone interview, mostly behavioura questions and contents from your resume.