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Updated May 1, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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IS Analyst at Michelin North America
Posted May 1, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Apr 2012 (took a day)
After an initial phone interview, I was called in to the headquarters for an interview with 4 IT department managers. Each consisted of about 30 mins, typical behavioral questions, each one was a little bit different. The explained the position, the benefits, the organizational structure, etc.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Engineering at Michelin North America
Posted Feb 14, 2012
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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 Feb 2010 (took 4 weeks)
Interview process was very detailed and consisted of a phone interview with a recruiter, 6 1 0n 1 interviews and a complete background and education check. once the process was complete a job offer was not made until a few weeks later.
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Just ask for what you want and go from there.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Human Resources Intern at Michelin North America
Posted Feb 3, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Lexington, SC (took a day)
The interview was very basic. Tell me about some strengths and weaknesses, Tell me about yourself, Tell me about these positions that you have held, etc.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Michelin North America
Posted Oct 12, 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 Greenville, SC (took a day)
One day onsite interview. Start with a introduction presentation of the company given by the employee. Then candidates were split to meet with different people to take interview, Including behavior questions, technique skills, etc. Finally came with a group team work to finish a task followed by a short conclusion one by one
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Plant Engineering Manager at Michelin North America
Posted Sep 2, 2011
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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 Apr 2011 (took 5 days)
The interviewer was a former engineer and had held the position I was interviewing for previously. He conducted the phone interview and he was very complimentary about my background and personality. Needless to say I was encouraged, then I took a personality test which was made to sound quite meaningless but then I evidently failed it for this position. I was then asked to take it again so I took a different approach and failed it again! I could go into more detail but the whole process at this point seemed quite silly.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Personality Test.
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Area Sales Manager at Michelin North America
Posted Aug 4, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Jul 2011 in Greenville, SC (took 2 months)
1: APPLICATION: Applied online and received an invitation for a phone screen maybe about 2-3 weeks later. Helps to find contact information for interviewer and call them or e-mail them directly to let them know you applied. The department is Corporate Recruiting (TCAR). It does not seem they have a preference in general for who they are interested in. Some hires have an MBA, some have no sales experience or business degree.
2: PHONE SCREENING: It was very basic at about 30 minutes in length. No behavioral questions. Typical background questions on your qualifications and past experience relating to sales. Notable questions (these are routinely asked as confirmed with other applicants) are: "Why Michelin", "Why Sales". Make sure be proactive! Don't just settle for answering questions. Offer to the recruiter why they need you. Display a sales personality on the phone. Slightly aggressive, but optomistic, numbers oriented, and determined to get the job. Tell her why they need you. You do not have to know much about Michelin. After phone ended, it was till about a month and a half later I was invited for to go down to SC for a HQ interview. They will either fly you or pay you for your mileage (whichever is less expensive), put you in a hotel and pay for your meals.
**During the whole process they never really cared whether you knew anything about tires or Michelin, rather they wanted you to display a sales personality.** KEEP THIS IN MIND! Don't kill yourself doing research as it will not be brought up. Basically know a few tires, and what car or truck would use them. They never asked anything relating to Michelin as a company.
3: DAY OF HQ INTERVIEW: The Recruiter, and most of the TCAR interviewers were sort of nervous around all of the applicants. I would not describe them as unfriendly, but their enthusiasm was very contrived. Meaning, they seemed kind of unsettled when out of the interview and just talking plainly with the candidates. The PLNA group (another division of the Area Sales Manager) were more open, and genuinely friendly.
When you arrive at HQ you sit in a room with other applicants, where you are briefed on benefits and company car, (you are required to pay 100$ or so a month for the car which covers insurance, repair, gas etc.). Interview is with 3 employees in the dept. Mine was 1. Manager, 2. Personnel Manager, and 3. Another type of Manager. You interview with each of them for 1 hour a piece (1 on 1). They all interviewed without any script in front of them. They may ask behavioral questions, they may not. All three asked generally about experience, but they are not necessarily concerned with that, because remember: **If you have been offered an invite, where the company pays for you to travel there, they already think you can at least basically perform the job**. You can talk briefly about your experiences, but remember the most important thing you must do: SELL THEM on YOU! What this means is that you tell them why they should hire you and tell them you want the job and ask what it will take to get it. Display that you can sell by selling them on you. I was only asked 2 behavioral questions by the first interviewer, and none after that. It help a **little** to know about tires, but remember concentrate on you sell to them that you can do the job.
The last interviewer seemed only to care about dissecting your resume and finding any discrepancies. A prior review confirms this. He seemed to be looking for a lie.
Afterwards you will have lunch with the recruiter, the other applicants, and maybe some of your interviewers. This lunch is to test you! Make sure you carry on conversations with all the applicants, and the recruiter. Don't talk about the job, or Michelin really. Just have normal conversation and keep it going. Stand out from everybody else.
The recruiter told us they would let us know the decision within 3 days. I heard back in 3 days. However, I talked to a previous hire who said they called her back within 3 hours of leaving to make an offer. They make their decision after everyone leaves (probably takes them 15-20 minutes to come to a conclusion), and you do background checks AFTER you get an offer.
Summing this up, this is a pretty easy corporate interview process compared to most others. It has great benefits and the opportunity to relocate and travel. Not a hard interview to prepare for, and not a hard one to ace. The only constituent thing you need to remember is to act like a salesman and you will get the job.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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EHS at Michelin North America
Posted Jul 28, 2011
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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 Jan 2009 (took 2 weeks)
Phone interview with recruiter then about a week later 1:1 interviews with HR manager and position supervisor. Received offer about a week later, ~$10,000/year less than the minimum I said I'd accept. I still accepted and set a start date of about 5 weeks later, pending background checks and drug test. Was contacted by relocation assistance immediately and they made that process very easy.
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They weren't willing to negotiate and offered much less that the minimum I said I'd accept. Dirty practice, I thought.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Account Coordinator at Michelin North America
Posted Jul 30, 2011 — 0 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 Mar 2009 (took 4 days)
Tested through outside agency, then phone interview.
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none
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Industrial Engineer at Michelin North America
Posted Jun 7, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 (took 2 months)
Long interviewing process, got a call after 7 months of meeting with the recruiting team. After that a phone interview, an IQ and personality test lasting aprox. 1.5 hours I was invited to interview at HQ. After passing that interview I interviewed at the place that they had the oppening.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Tire Builder at Michelin North America
Posted May 9, 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 Jul 2009 (took 3 weeks)
very informative about the company, said that the people work wery hard on there on without supervision, because of the incentive if you made your production set for that team
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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