GE Healthcare Interview Questions & Reviews in Milwaukee, WI Area

Interviewed Nov 2011 in Milwaukee, WI (took a day)

I spoke to an alumnus of my university who works at GE Healthcare to ask him about the company. He asked if I was interested in internships there (I was, but I hadn't wanted to lead by making demands of him.) He forwarded my resume to a recruiter.

She and I set up a phone interview within the week, even though I am currently studying abroad in Ireland and the position is in the US. While interviewing me, she was kind, timely, and polite, if a little distant. She shared that she had been through an internship similar to the one I was applying to herself. She said outright that the interview would be behavioral.

Questions focused on problem-solving ability, working with people, and meeting challenges. Examples: "Tell me about a time you had to work with a difficult person." "Tell me about a time you had to convince somebody to do something that was difficult or risky for them." "Describe to me when you were working towards a goal and hit some obstacles." She asked "digging" questions at times--I'd pause in a story, and she'd ask something like, "So when you started at your lab and didn't know anything" (what I had just said,) "how did you go about learning?"

I did my best to answer the questions concisely with specific examples and to emphasize the problems I was faced with, the actions I took to solve them, and the results. When I asked her what one thing she would tell someone entering the position I was interviewing for to help them prepare, she said to keep an open mind, be ready to be pushed out of your comfort zone, and view the whole thing as an adventure. I received an offer and think I will take the internship.