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Updated Apr 16, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Administrative Assistant at Intertek
Posted Apr 16, 2012
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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 Apr 2012 in Kentwood, MI (took 4 days)
Applied for the position end of March. Two weeks later I received a call from the woman who would've been my supervisor and she asked me a couple questions regarding my previous employer. She seemed pleased with my answers so she asked me to come down a few days later for a face to face interview. Keep in mind, I live two hours from this job and was ready to relocate for it. So I got to the interview plenty early and was taken to a room where I would meet with a member of HR and the woman who would be my supervisor. From the very beginning, she was rude, disinterested and was a total of 20 minutes...and at the end when I got the chance to ask questions: I asked for e-mails of both women and neither would give them to me. I was told, "you have our number, you can leave a message." I normally get an e-mail so I can send a thank you. Lets just say, I was incredibly disappointed with the interview and have no intentions of applying to Intertek again.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Lab Technician at Intertek
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took a day)
When i interviewed with Intertek, the woman did not seem interested throughout the entire process. She didn't ask relevant question for the position i applied for, and she did not evaluate my skills listed. I'm not sure why she considered me based on the CV given ...and then chose to overlook it.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Project Engineer at Intertek
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Plano, TX (took 6 weeks)
Initially was contacted by e-mail to call a manager to talk about my skills and to schedule an in person interview for the next day.
The interview went well then I was given a skills test on safety standards and had a tour of the building after that. Everyone was friendly that I met that day.
about 10 days later I was called about a 2nd interview. At this interview I spoke with 2 different managers than the 1st interview and the director of operations of the facility, I was told by him I would hear if I got the job in 2 weeks. Good rapport was built with all these people.
Towards the end of the second week I was asked to come in for a third interview, told that this employee had been overseas but that he was the team leader of the segment I would be working in.
This interview did not go quite as well and my enthusiasm was less after so many interviews. He said I would hear back in 2 weeks when they made their decision.
I didn't hear back so I e-mailed the third interviewer and was asked to call him and he told me management higher than their individual facility had put a hold on hiring and I'd hear from him if that had changed.
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Strange Phone Call at Intertek
Posted Oct 30, 2011
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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 Sep 2011 in Chicago, IL (took a day)
I received a phone call regarding a job I'd applied for online at Intertek. The recruiter did not seem to know what questions to ask and was incredibly condescending throughout the conversation. She asked me to describe the kind of opportunity I was looking for and what I'd done at my last job, then cut me off rather rudely saying "Do you realize only VPs get to do that here?". She also kept suggesting that I'd been let go from previous positions, rather than having moved on for my own reasons. After she asked for my salary expectations, she followed up with "what's the rock bottom minimum you're willing to accept?". I have never been asked that by a potential employer and found it inappropriate. There were a lot of awkward pauses after I'd answered her questions, where she sighed into the phone heavily. She finally said "well, I'm going to pass your resume along to the hiring manager. I don't know if he'll even want to talk to you. I"ll call you back if we're interested". I found her demeanor and questions insulting and rude. Luckily, I had an offer from another company two weeks later. I won't apply to Intertek again.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Test Engineer at Intertek
Posted Apr 13, 2011
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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 Feb 2011 in Plano, TX (took a day)
I had 2 interviews, both by the engineering managers. The first one was confusing because he kept asking me questions about electrical engineering even though he knew that wasn't my background. The second one was a breeze pretty much, he seemed much calmer.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Test Engineer at Intertek
Posted Jan 27, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Cortland, NY (took 2 days)
I sent my resume and a cover letter to the company's careers site. I received an email back two days later requesting a one on one interview. I went in for the interview and met with a operations manager. He asked me about my college experience and courses I had taken in the past. We had some small talk, about basketball if I remember correctly. It was a very relaxing and non technical interview. He basically offered me the job at the end of the 30 minute interview and sent me a confirmation email about a week later.
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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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Administrative Assistant at Intertek
Posted Jan 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 Jun 2009 (took a day)
Met in a confrence room with future supervisor and HR rep. Quick interview, approx 15 minutes.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Software Developer at Intertek
Posted Aug 17, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 (took a day)
I believe the interview process was handled very professionally. They had a list of question they came prepared to ask me with and the hiring manager was very accessible throughout the process.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Engineering at Intertek
Posted Apr 12, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Plano, TX (took 4 weeks)
This was not a good interview. The HR person started off coordinating everything. We met up on LinkedIn. It was to first start with a phone interview with the key people in the office I was to work in and a telephone interview from a person in New York, that I would never really work with in the first place.
I never talked to the key person in the office where I would work, but talked to the New York staff. They later scheduled a separate phone interview with a manager I'd be working with. The interviews on the phone went well and they offered to fly me in from half way across the country, (all expenses paid), with my family for a face to face. The HR person who I had been in contact with said she wouldn't be available to meet for the interviews, but graciously offered to meet me and my family for breakfast the next day, (Saturday). I thought this was very nice.
The actual interview was horrible. I reached the company after flying in with my family, and we immediately went to lunch with a group of people. We got back to the office and they sat me in a conference room for 30 mins all by myself with the door closed. I was actually shocked when someone walked in. There was no appology, we just jumped right in. After about 5 mins the guy had to leave, (horrible). After he left it was another 30 mins. of the same business with me all by myself in a closed conference room before the next person came in. The next guy was going to be my direct manager, so he was interrested in feeling me out more han the others. He began to quiz me on certain items, but I guess he was, so busy or had so many other important things to do that he didn't see a need to formally end his portion of the interview. I give him more credit though becuase at least he gave me more than 5 mins. of his time. He left, becuase of a cell phone call. He said he'd be back later in the day to speak with me but I guess he just forgot about it. At the end of the day the HR person took me out of the closed conference room and into the concession area for a drink of water. We saw my proposed future manager there and she pleaded my case to him on how I had been there the whole day and he should let me got, but it wasn't necessary, he forgot altogether that he wanted to see me again. Well, after the group leader guy left there was another long pause in between people. Another woman from HR would come in and check in on me intermittently and ask if anyone had been in recently, and the answer was no, so at least she was some what aware that I was a human being.
I can go on and on, this was a great practice of sheer negligence. They made no sort of arrangements to accomdate my visit or show me that they were really interested. This same patteren repeated 2 more times. Ultimately, I got into the office at 11:15 am and got out at 5:30 pm. I ended up talking to 4 people. The actual interiview time, where I was engaged by another person, (outside of lunch), was about 40 minuites (horrible).
OK, so the interviews were horrible. I felt so neglected. But I met with my HR contact the next day, (Saturday), for breakfast. This was redeming, (at the time). She did inform me they were highly interested, and they really wanted me on board. She told me she'd be contacting me within the next week, and they would be working on an offer. So, then I flew back home and waited and waited and waited. I didn't hear from her. I reached out to her 3 weeks later and asked what had happenend, after all she did say she'd be calling the very next week after my interview. She didn't get back to me. 2 weeks more went by, (5 weeks after interviewing), after writing her to follow up again she informed me that the company was working on another priority. At that point me and my wife knew to move on. We were considering selling our home, taking our child out of school, and relocating to another state for this position, and from the treatment we recieved it was clear that this would have been a a big mistake.
Well, after some 10 weeks after the interview, (End of March, early April), my HR person wrote me up and asked if I was still interested in the postion and wanted to talk about an offer. Well, I politely declined.
The messages sent were so incongruent. They flew me and my family in from out of state, than it seemed like there was just no interest at all. I was left alone for long periods of time and...... it was a mess. I was not impressed with Intertek Testing Services at all.
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It didn't seem as though the company would take care of me, and I wan't impressed by the interview process.
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Project Engineer at Intertek
Posted Sep 27, 2009
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed May 2007 in Lake Forest, CA (took a day)
very simple
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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