Caterpillar Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – I talked to someone at the career fair. They later emailed me saying that they wanted to interview me.

There were two interviews back to back. Both were 30 minutes long. Two really nice guys who asked just about all behavioral questions. They asked three questions at a time, and you got to pick which one you wanted to answer. That made it really easy.

Interview Details – There was only 1 interview, though it was split into 2 sections. The interviewers were very disarming, and the process went very well. All communications with Caterpillar were by email - no phone calls. They expect the interviewing interns to attend the information session, where you can ask any question without being under pressure. You'll also find out a lot about Caterpillar, and get some free pizza. The recruiter for my school has been helpful in answering Caterpillar related questions and putting me in touch with various people within Caterpillar.

Negotiation Details – I was an intern, so there really was no negotiating. You take it or leave it.

Interview Details – One on campus interview with 2 interviewers asking behavioral questions for 30 minutes each.

Negotiation Details – One email. I took it immediately because Cat is a great company.

Interview Details – Not the conventional process, but I had met with some employees who set me up with an informational phone interview with the head of recruiting. About a month later she informed me I received an official interview. They assigned me a mentor of sorts, who was very helpful and took me out to dinner the night before. I thought I did very well on the interview stage but did not get offered the job. My "area to improve" was technical aptitude, which was I admit I was not the most prepared for, as many HR employees I had met with had told me leadership/team building was the name of the game. Great interviewing experience though, and obviously a great company.

Interview Details – I received an email where they told me that they would offer an information session. The manager kindly showed me around the office and we briefly talked about what kind of structural analysis they do and whether or not my interest agrees with theirs. They said they would contact me in two weeks, but they never did. They should have reply me with a yes or no so that the matter can be settled sooner.

Interview Details – The interview was split into three separate interviews. The interviews focused almost entirely on behavioral questions. All together, I was probably asked a total of 40 behavioral questions with almost no skill-based or technical questions.

Interview Details – I reached out to the hiring manager directly via e-mail and expressed interest in the job. He called me back about a week later, had a phone interview, and I flew to the office a few weeks later. The interview itself was very short and relaxed... mostly pain free. I didn't hear anything for a while but then a few months later I received an offer. I guess the downside with huge companies is that hiring freezes aren't all that uncommon.

Interview Details – There are only behavioral questions in the interview. When have you gone beyond the call of duty? Tell me a time when you were a leader? Tell me about a time where you had somebody difficult to work with in a group and how did you handle the situation? Pretty basic/expected stuff. Having hands on experience and or design experience would definitely help to get this internship.

Interview Details – Interview was completely Behavioral Interview with 3 panel memebers from Manufacturing.
Questions were:
*Tell me about yourself.
*How do you relate your experience to this position.
*Give us an instance where you had to implement a change in the process and how you made the change collobrating with the operators.
*Tell us where you had a difficult situation with a customer and how you handled it ( Customer can be anyone from other departments seeking your presence)
*In detail tell us about your best accomplishment and why and how it made a change to your project.
* Also detail us your bad experience and how you dealt with it.
*Tell us about your experience working with shop floor operators and how do you communicate process changes effectively to them.
*Give us few examples of your procces improvment methodologies which and how it made a change to the process.

The interview went on for 2hrs asking about different scenarios based on my experience and purely STAR related questions.