Trimble Navigation Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Interviewed with my Manager. Went over my previous experience, the responsibilities of the position for which I was applying. Also I received an overview of what Trimble produced. I was surprised to learn that Surveying was the biggest percentage of revenue for Trimble. As this was several years ago and before the merger with Spectra Precision, the process is now different I'm sure.

Negotiation Details – They wanted me and in fact the Recruiter phoned me at home after the interview to inform me that they would be making an offer.

Interview Details – Phone interview for all the round. They like C++ a lot! OO programming! You MUST clearly know the OO programming's detail.

Interview Details – I submit my resume on a website, then their recruiter called me if I am interested. The phone interview was about two days later. I got the call from hiring manager and asked some technical question. then asked me to on-site interview. The questions of on-site are c/c++ , operating system, some basic network question.

Negotiation Details – I didn't negotiate. They offered me more than I expected, because my expected salary is pretty low.

Interview Details – My phone interview was with a C level executive at Trimble and it took about an hour. We had a very collaborative and positive conversation that ended with me receiving a firm invitation to meet personally 2 days later. We agreed I would hear back from the executive the next day to confirm an exact time to meet.

I received an email late the next day from the recruiter I was being passed over. Obviously something changed the interviewers mind about meeting me and that can happen for several reasons.

However, to just ignore the invitation without a simple email or phone message from the executive declining to meet, comes across as rude and inconsiderate. Given the level of the individual involved, this simple courtesy should have been a professional no brainer.

Interview Details – 1.) Process began with a follow up contact (via email) from a recruiter after attending a university career fair.
2.) Quick 15 minute phone introduction with the recruiter. Completed a screening form and sent it back. Was scheduled for a phone interview with one of the hiring managers on site in CO.
3.) 20 minute phone interview with hiring manager. Typical questions about experience, interests, long term goals. They seem flexible with regard to start dates (for summer or seasonal internships) and informed me that the internship would be likely segue into a full time position, pending satisfactory performance. Afterwards, scheduled for another phone interview with a departmental manager from a related group.
4.) Another 20 minute phone interview with the group manager. Afterwards, passed back to the first hiring manager.
5.) Offered the chance to take a skills test. "Once you get this back to us, we'll see where to go from there." I wasn't able to get to it right away and received a message from the recruiter asking me how I was doing, because they were "very interested" in me. I took these as good signs, but ended up accepting another offer and never completed the test. Sent a formal withdrawal notice and received a polite response in return along with an offer to "contact them again for other opportunities in the future."

Everybody that I spoke to was polite, professional, responsive, and well organized. If this is indicative of the overall company culture, then it would appear to be a pleasant place to work. I didn't hesitate to recommend them to some of my colleagues at school.

Interview Details – My initial communication with Trimble was in the form of a phone call from the Trimble HR recruiter. I had submitted my resume approximately 4 weeks prior and was surprised to get a call so long after the submittal. I arranged a 30 minute phone interview with the HR rep which led to a panel phone screen with the hiring manager and his peers. There were 6 people on the phone panel interview. After waiting an additional 7 weeks, I received an offer which was well below my targeted salary range and not for the job title for which I applied. Disappointing at best. After some negotiation, I was able to raise the salary offer to within an acceptable range. I was pressed to start immediately. My first day was frought with mis-steps by Trimble including lack of communication from my hiring manager and misinformation about when to start.

Negotiation Details – I was able to negotiate my salary a bit, but not within the range I was targeting (and making at my last employer).

I would suggest others who are negotiating an offer use both salary and stock as negotiation tools.

Interview Details – Phone tech interview with 2 people. One tech, the other tech savvy manager.
In person interview, 2 techs in person(future coworkers) and 2 managers on conference call(one future direct manager, also tech savvy). Some technical questions, some scenario/troubleshooting questions.
Personality questions. Hobby questions. Asked "what was the first thing you took apart?" great question, liked them just for asking it.

Negotiation Details – Very little negotiation.

Interview Details – Started with a phone interview which lasted about 90 minutes. The phone interview consisted of an overview of the position, measurement of my experience and work history and a determination of my interest level. Once making it through the phone interview process, I was asked to visit the Westminster Office for a round of interviews with the Director of Sales, Director of Marketing and also with HR. Each individual interview was scheduled to last an hour. However, each session ran over making the overall session last approximately four and a half hours.

The individual interviews didn't seem to be organized too well. The questions were all over the place and didn't seem to be related to the position. In fact, the interview seemed to be more of a venting opportunity. From what I gathered, there are major organizational changes taking place and the employees aren't exactly happy with them. More importantly, the company is experiencing high turn over and the foils who plan to ride it out are seeing their workload double.

Overall, it seems that Trimble has loft goals and are lacking in quality employees to achieve them. Way to much complaining during the interview process to get walk a way with a warm fuzzy or feelings that this is the right company for me.

Shortly after, I was informed that the company stock price took a nose dive and that the open position was being put on hold.....

Interview Details – Applied online, received email from recruiter in Colorado a week later.
Asked me to fill in a skills evaluation form. Sent it back and she
emailed that she sent the package to the hiring manager in Sunnyvale.
A few days later got a call from the hiring manager, after a phone screen,
he asked me to come in for a live interview. Went in for one round of
interviews at Trimble Sunnyvale. Interviewed with manager and two senior
engineers. Everyone was cordial, nothing out of the ordinary.
My impression is that they are an older, mature company with things
very entrenched. So job walls are very rigid, you have to fill the
position like a glove. They have a lot of history and a lot of people there
a long time by Silicon valley standards. Words I would NOT use to
describe the vibe - enthused, passionate, excited, fun. Just seem
like very competent people doing their job.