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Mechanical Engineer at GE Global Research
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 (took 4+ weeks)
It starts with a telephonic interview. If they are satisfied with the performance, they call you to site for a presentation. This is a followed by a 1:1 interview with around 6-7 people.
It takes time before they take a decision and you have to keep waiting.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Mechanical Engineer at GE Global Research
Posted Dec 26, 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 Dec 2011 in Niskayuna, NY (took a day)
There were two phone interviews and then an onsite interview. The procedure was fast and I got to hear back from the hiring manager very promptly after the interviews. There were a lot of technical questions in both the phone interviews. They seem to be very thorough about checking the technical background of the candidate. The onsite interview consisted of technical presentation, technical interview, panel interview and a number of 1:1 interviews.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Research Engineer at GE Global Research
Posted Dec 6, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 in Munich (Germany) (took 6 weeks)
Line manager emailed me a few days after submitting application to arrange a telephone interview. This took around an hour and mainly consisted of a detailed job description and questions about my research background. A few weeks later I received an invitation to a personal interview including a timetable and the request to prepare a presentation. They also recommended a hotel nearby and agreed to pay all travel expenses. The personal interview took place 6 weeks after the telephone conversation. It consisted of 4 parts: my presentation, an interview focusing on personality, a technical interview, and an interview with HR and the manager. The technical part was quite hard, the rest was easy going. I found the general atmosphere quite tense and not very welcoming. I wasn't shown any offices or labs, which was disappointing.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.
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Mechanical Engineering at GE Global Research
Posted Nov 12, 2011
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)
Received an email from HM about potential employment and set up a time for phone interview. The process started very dry without any small talk and the very 1st question was whether I need a sponsorship to work, which wasn't motivating for an international student like myself. I was not being informed whether the interview will be technical or behavior oriented. Questions were asked randomly from my resume as well as about my motivation to work in GE and so on. One of the questions expressed their doubt since my degree is not exactly from ME although my resume says so clearly, but my skill sets do match the job requirements quite well. In general it wasn't a good experience and I think the organization of the process is quite poor. This is one of my 1st formal job interviews and I am not very experienced and prepared either. Could do better in the future. Haven't heard anything back yet after one month and I think that wasn't nice either. Anyways a decline letter will appear more professional.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Research Intern at GE Global Research
Posted Nov 5, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Niskayuna, NY (took 4+ weeks)
A phone interview. They first asked about my current research, and then introduced the project for the intern position. After that, they asked me to propose some ideas for the project. People interviewed me are very smart and professional. I enjoyed interview very much.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Scientist at GE Global Research
Posted May 13, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Niskayuna, NY (took a day)
Extremely slow..
I have phone interview at the beginning of March and then they invited me for on site interview at the end of it. On site interview consists of a presentation and then 6 individual interviews. Waiting for 7 weeks, still no news.. These people are extremely SLOW in making a decision
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Chemist at GE Global Research
Posted May 12, 2011
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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 2009 in Niskayuna, NY (took 2 days)
Blitz interview. We were brought in as a group and interviewed by managers and selected scientists, one on one. The final interview was with HR to discuss salaries, etc..Most interviews were actually with scientists and were technical. The one with the manager was not technical. It was just an overview of everything.
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Negotiation Details
You receive a letter and you call and mail the signed letter to accept the offer or not.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Senior Scientist at GE Global Research
Posted Mar 2, 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 2010 in Niskayuna, NY (took 6 weeks)
Because the interview was based off an employee referral, the first task was to find an approximate match in the posted jobs at gecareers.com. After applying against a close match, telephone interviews followed with the group lead, and then we arranged an all-day interview trip out (GE paid all expenses and for a nice hotel and dinner at the Desmond).
The day's interview consisted of a breakfast with my "sponsor", a presentation (research topic of my choice), followed by panel interviews (one technical, one community - to check if values and interaction style match the group) as well as a number of one on one interviews with HR, the group lead, his boss, and several technical folks. Somewhere in the middle was a group lunch (a chance to get to know some other employees even outside the immediate group), and the end of the day wrapped up with the team withdrawing to compare notes while I was escorted out. (I was later asked to not leave and have a follow on with the manager to discuss the next steps; while he could not make any kind of offer at that point, I took it as a very positive sign).
It was clear that the presentation is very important (HR also attends) and they are looking at more than just what you did, but how you present it to a lay audience (presentation skills, poise, etc.) as well as details of what I contributed (rather than what may have been done by other members of a team). The technical grilling afterwards tests both depth of knowledge on topics that may be of specific interest to the interviewers, as well as breath in terms of applicability of what was done to the wider world. Personally, I rather enjoyed it as it was an opportunity to talk in more detail about my approach to work and ideas for future work.
At the end of the day, I walked away with a pretty good idea of the group I'd be working with (highly skilled and work collegially together), the kinds of problems they were interested in (why they wanted to hire me), and the general kind of work that I'd be doing there (details of course depend both on specific project funding, customer goals and ultimately what the group thought was the best way to attack the problem and provide value to the funding group (internal or external). While there was some grousing about corporate processes (GE is a very large company), the group itself was highly cohesive, loyal to their manager (who himself was fairly hands off - trusted his people to do the right thing so long as decisions were made by the group and blessed by a few leads as "not the wrong way to go") and overall helped me to make a decision about joining as well as helping them make a decision about making an offer.
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Negotiation Details
They came up with their best offer, main negotiation points were around starting date and clarifying relo issues. We had plenty of time for pre interview discovery and had set some parameters in place before going out so the process was relatively painless (though somewhat protracted nonetheless).
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Intern at GE Global Research
Posted Oct 23, 2010
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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 Apr 2010 (took 2 weeks)
It was a very pleasant experience. They did not grill me heavily on technical details. However, this aspect depends on the lab and team you are interviewing with.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Researcher at GE Global Research
Posted Oct 17, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 (took 3 days)
Coming from one of the best universities and labs in the world, I felt that the lab head who interviewed me had a bit of an inferiority complex. Without any obvious reason, the interviewer was dismissive, rude and kept interrupting me. The questions were not tough, just irrelevant.
This was the fourth round of interviews. Even though, I was told I 'd have an answer in two weeks ,I had to wait four weeks before they decided to answer my emails negatively without any feedback.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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