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Updated May 25, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Rotation Engineer at FMC Technologies
Posted May 25, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Houston, TX (took 3 weeks)
I first communicated with FMC at the career fair at my college. After talking with a recruiter, he took my resume and directed me to the specific job to apply for on their website.
He contacted me the next day to tell me that I had an interview on campus, and I was able to schedule the time for it in a two day window.
The night before my interview, there was a social at a local restaurant to help potential employees get to know employees of FMC. The next day, my interview was in the career center on campus with two engineers at FMC. It was about half personality / half technical. It lasted 45 minutes.
The interview went well, and by the end of that week, I was contacted by the HR director at FMC, telling me that I had an on-site interview in Houston on one of the next three Fridays. They emailed me at the beginning of the second week telling me that my interview was that Friday.
The on-site interview consisted of a tour of the manufacturing facility, lunch, and then a panel interview for every individual prospective employee. My interview was much more technical and in detail this time around. Many of the questions were focused on my class projects and group/team work. This interview lasted an hour.
At the end of this interview, I asked when I would know for sure about the job. They said at least two weeks, because there were still other interviews going on the following week. However, I got my offer letter in an email from the HR director only three days later.
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I didn't negotiate. The salary is very respectable for an engineer just out of college.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Personality Test.
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New Hire - Rotational Engineer at FMC Technologies
Posted Mar 8, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in Houston, TX (took a day)
After him giving an overview of the company and what he does, I was asked what I know about the oil industry. First, I'm an aerospace engineer, which doesn't really matter considering I took 80% of the courses the mechanical engineers have. So I tried to bull my way through the answer, and I could tell he wasn't really buying it. Then I got lucky; I mentioned how I worked for GE as a mechanical engineer and did alot of CFD and design/structural stuff, and he immediately chimed in and told me he had experience in the fanblade composites industry. The lesson: Keep talking about whatever experiences, and eventually something will strike a chord.
The behavioral portion was simple enough, only that one falter on the oil industry question. But then came the technical portion of the interview, where he asked some (initially) difficult questions. He showed me the computer screen and it showed an unnecessarily long and wordy question asking how I would go about doing the stress analysis of two cylinders on top of eachother with an applied load. This caught me off guard, and then he sent me to a marker board to show him how to go about the problem. He stared at me for about 10 seconds and then I just started writing away the simple thinking process:
"radius (inner) = blah blah blah
radius (outer) = blah blah blah...
Area equals pi*Router^2 - pi*Rinner^2...
Applied force (P) equals blah blah blah...
stress = P/A"
Then immediately cut me off. He was literally just looking for the equation stress=P/A. We both laughed and he told me nicely not to overthink anything. The process is more important than the answers.
Anyway, it was a solid interview, and it's noted that I didn't get an offer because I just got out of the interview. I should expect a call about a second interview (if I get it) in about a week.
Cheers.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Project Engineer at FMC Technologies
Posted Jan 31, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Houston, TX (took a day)
One guy wanted to hire for a position that had yet to be created. Said he had to offer to company people first then he could offer to me. Then said HR denied he request.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Surface Wellhead Engineer at FMC Technologies
Posted Jan 31, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Houston, TX (took 2 weeks)
I applied through our campus recruiting website, and was accepted for a first round interview. The first round consisted of two back-to-back 30-minute interviews with managers. I received notification several days later that I was admitted to the second round of interviews, which consisted of five back-to-back 30-minute interviews with various employees in the company, including two senior engineering managers, a design engineer, an HR employee, and a sales manager. Interviews varied - some consisted of technical questions of varying difficulty, while some were more behavioral.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Engineering Graduate (Rotational Program) at FMC Technologies
Posted Dec 9, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Houston, TX (took 4 weeks)
Came to campus and there was a pre-interview social (Very important to schmooze at) took several hours.
On campus interview was a full hour long with 2 interviewers. Typical personality questions for the 1st half, times you've worked in a group, led student projects, managed under-performing team members etc. The second half consisted of a technical interview where they asked simple and at some points even leading questions about cut-away 3D models. 2 week response time and an on-site interview. They have a group of about 6-8 people come on site with a plant tour. For some reason even though the graduate position is rotational it would seem like each department would pick students to interview. This was especially odd because some students at the on-site had more than one interview. The only thing I could guess is that it's because it would be their starting department, or because their hiring department doesn't know their head from their a*s. I would believe either.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Business Analyst at FMC Technologies
Posted Dec 3, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Houston, TX (took 2 months)
The first round interview was a single interview. The second round interviews were more extensive, all with the Heads of the Organization. Interviews were primarily behavioral and were held at the Houston Office. The people were extremely nice and fwelcoming.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Internship at FMC Technologies
Posted Feb 21, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Washington, DC (took a day)
Very laid back and medium stress levels, actually took a liking to my interviewer.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Buyer I at FMC Technologies
Posted Feb 1, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Houston, TX (took a day)
I was called by a buyer to schedule an interview. It was a group interview, the engineer and 3 other buyers that I would be working with. The interview was short about 45min long and they mostly asked questions about processes in supply chain that pertained to a buyer.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Summer Intern at FMC Technologies
Posted Oct 28, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 (took a day)
I was told at a career fair to apply on their website and through the Unversity's career services website. After a few weeks, I was contacted for an interview. It consisted of a few behavioral questions and technical questions.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineer II at FMC Technologies
Posted Oct 28, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in Houston, TX (took 4+ weeks)
Detailed Technical interview with the engineering manager. lased about 30 minutes
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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