Oshkosh Truck Interview Questions & Reviews

Interviewed May 2009 (took 4+ weeks)

The initial phone interview was a little over an hour. Pretty standard interview with the HR manager. I was called back to do an in-person interview, which was held two weeks later. That consisted of two different panels of interviewers and took about 3.5 hours. Everyone seemed pretty nice, and it was a good cross-section of people who were involved (departments, levels, etc.) I was contacted again to arrange for an assessment process that was held 1.5 weeks after the second interview. I knew that other candidates would be there, so I assumed that part of it would be to assess how we worked with others. I was surprised to find out that everything was done in isolation. There was an activity where we had to write directions on how to complete a given task, then on to watch a video and give a presentation on it, then another interview with the HR manager and the plant manager, and finally a role play with one of the company's employees. Though I was there for 4-5 hours, most of it was spent just waiting my turn. I felt they could have done much more to get a true sense of a candidate's abilities. The writing activity, presentation, and role play felt contrived and squeezed into too-short of a time frame, while the interview was repetitive since it was the third time I had done that with them.