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Updated Mar 8, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Engineering at Panduit
Posted Feb 6, 2010
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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 Jan 2010 in Tinley Park, IL (took 2 weeks)
initial interviews by recruiter on the phone, then with 5 people one on one. Then further one on ones for second interview.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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IT at Panduit
Posted Jan 23, 2010
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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 2010 (took 4 weeks)
The interview process started with a phone screen by a recruiter, a phone interview by the hiring manager later in the week to identify candidates to interview, conversations with a recruiting assistant to setup the one-on-one interview, than three one-on-one interviews (HR, peer, hiring manager) a few weeks later. The HR interview was very pleasant informative (and he greeted me within 5 minutes of my arrival). The peer interviewer asked pertinent and piercing questions to assure my qualifications for the job. The manager interview was informal and pleasant.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Product Management at Panduit
Posted Jan 12, 2010
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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 Dec 2009 in Los Angeles, CA (took a day)
Spent time on phone with HR and after screen was scheduled for interview. Interview took 5 hours and I met with several managers. There were others interviewing the same day and it seemed that they were also interviewing for the PM position. Run of the mill questions with focus on behavioral questions covering managment methods and customer issues.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Product Manager at Panduit
Posted Dec 2, 2009
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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 2009 in Tinley Park, IL (took 3 weeks)
I applied for the job online and never heard back from Panduit, but then a third-party recruiter found me through LinkedIn and asked me if I was interested in the position. We had a brief phone interview and he sent me a list of questions via email that I had to respond to. Then he called me to let me know that I had the okay to continue with the hiring process and that a phone interview was scheduled with a person from Panduit, who I assumed would be the hiring manager. (I found out later he wasn't the hiring manager, he wasn't even in the same department. I have no idea why I talked to this guy)
During the phone interview with the Panduit employee he asked why I wanted to work for Panduit. Quite frankly, I'm unemployed, was not looking forward to the prospect of a long commute to Tinley Park, had already heard terrible things about the company, but I came up with a few things to say. Then he asked what I liked about the job or what drew me to the job. Here I was honest and told him that it was a typical Product Management job, at which point he be became very offended. The job description could have been copied and pasted from any other Software Product Manager job, but then again, the company allegedly has never had a software product manager before, just hardware product managers, so perhaps he just didn't have an understanding of what a software product manager was.
After the phone interview I heard back from the recruiter and was told that they wanted me to come in on Thursday for a face to face interview and he would get back to me. I didn't hear from him so I called him back. No response. Thursday came and went. He called back and told me that it would be next Thursday. This continued for a few weeks. I later determined that Thursday was their "interview" day. When my interview finally was scheduled, I showed up at the exact same time as another candidate for the exact same job. They put me in one conference room and him in another and conducted a round robin type of interview schedule. Oh, it gets better. I was told the interview would last from 8:00am to 3:00pm. I assumed that would include a 2-hour lunch with a few folks. Oh no. 45-minutes, with a coupon for their gross in-house cafeteria that was handed to me at the beginning of the day. There was no official scheduled lunch, just an open time slot. The guy who interviewed me before the open lunch slot offered to show me the way to the cafeteria and eat with me. Thank God. Also, after the hr rep asked me my salary requirements, he asked me how low I would be willing to go. Hahahahaha. I had already quoted him the average salary for a software product manager, but apparently they aren't familiar with those statistics.
I interviewed with 7 people that day. I never got a straight answer as to who had been managing the product prior to that time. I got very confusing answers as to how the product would be managed moving forward. At the end of the day, the last person who interviewed me, said wait here in the lobby and I'll see if you're supposed to talk to anyone else. After a few moments the receptionist's phone rang and after talking for a moment she informed me I could leave.
The next morning I received an email from the recruiter that they were moving forward with other candidates. I was so glad I hadn't bothered sending 7 thank you emails.
Oh, and the following week I noticed that the job had been re-posted.
Arguably, laughably, the worst interview I have ever had the misfortune of experience. I'm still unemployed, but I'm still glad I didn't get the offer.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Training at Panduit
Posted Sep 22, 2009
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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 Jul 2007 in Tinley Park, IL (took 2 days)
The interview process was good. Learned enough about the company to want to take the job.
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Difficulty negotiating vacation time.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Marketing Manager at Panduit
Posted Aug 30, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2007 in Tinley Park, IL (took 2 weeks)
I was surprised I had to talk with so many people. The interview process took two weeks. I was disappointed in some of their questions, but they were more interested in telling me about themselves and the company, so I just listened. They kept talking about the company's future vision and I was more interested in "what is it I am going to be doing for this company". I wasn't impressed with the building but was told there were plans to build a new headquarters, so I was okay with that.
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They kept asking if I would take less money? I thought that was strange. People change jobs to make more money, not to just break even. It took 3 counter offers to get something close to what I wanted and in hindsight, I did not make a good move by working for this company.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, a Skills Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Regional Director/Sales at Panduit
Posted Mar 19, 2009 — 3 of 3 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2007 in Singapore (Singapore) (took 2 weeks)
I learned of the opening through an on-line advertisement, which I noted at the time was very poorly written. It was primarily a laundry list of bullets that they wanted in the candidate, and appears they had been written as they came off the top of someone’s head. Regardless, when the offer came to interview locally, I decided to accept, if only for interview practice. The interviewer was the person responsible at the time for Asia-Pacific, along with his personal assistant. It was the typical interview – go over my experience, why are you interested in working for Panduit, etc. After an hour, we adjourned.
Several weeks later, I was invited for a panel interview in Singapore. This was a much more professional process – 3 hours of grilling by a panel of 5 people, including the original interviewer. Here they pretended to use a Top-Grading approach to interviewing that they called CIDS. I forget the exact meaning of CIDS, but it’s a fairly standard set of interview questions that aim to dig down to your core competencies and tendencies. But, like everything at Panduit, it’s only something that’s skin-deep. I had already obtained a copy of CIDS and knew exactly what to expect for questions. The same about Top-Grading – I knew from others that the A-P person had read the book and cherry-picked certain themes from the program, but that he didn’t have a clue about how to implement it or actually utilize it to lead his team. Regardless, after 3 hours I was on my way and received an offer several weeks later, which was grossly shy of what I had communicated as my bottom-line during the interview process. After a great deal of haggling, I reluctantly accepted the position, which I certainly regretted not long afterwards.
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Panduit is a very strange, almost incestuous, kind of company. If you’re there past 10 years, you’re a lifer and no matter how awful or untalented you are, you’ll keep your job and probably get moved into roles of increasing responsibility. The people in charge of sales have ZERO sales experience – but they’ve all been there for 15+ years, so they were given the opportunity to run the sales organization. So, if you’re given an offer from Panduit, it’s almost heresy to ask for more – you’re supposed to be grateful you have been invited into the Panduit family and understand that we don’t talk about money here.
In my case, the offer was substantially below what I was currently making and what I told them would be acceptable in terms of number/benefits. I was shocked. Then came their explanation of how the bonus system would work – which, in 90% of the cases, would never pay out. The bonus system (called SIP) is arbitrary, non-measurable, and shared across the whole team (so that you depend on others for your pay-out). When I went back to HR (because in Panduit they ARE the source of all power) and told them it was insufficient, they were beside themselves. I really thought something was wrong the person handling the negotiations – she took it personally. Only later did I realize that everyone at Panduit is like that. Regardless, I stuck to my bottom line, and they finally came around after. And for that, I was branded an ingrate and never really made to feel part of the Panduit “family”, which is just as well. Oh, and advise to anyone interviewing with Panduit – make them spell out in painfully clear detail exactly how the SIP will be calculated, what you can expect, and what kind of medical coverage are they planning on providing to you. In my case, I let the details on medical coverage go – and ended up getting an extremely poor package with huge deductibles and dental coverage that didn’t kick in for the first 12 months. Lovely.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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