Engineer In Training Interview Questions

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Example question: You are at a contractor work site repairing one machine which you were sent out to fix. A manager/team lead comes up to you and says their line went down and need assistance immediately. How would you handle this situation knowing that emergency repair is not only charged a different rate but would take time away from your current project?
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Engineer In Training: Field Service Engineer

Interviewed at Rockwell Automation

3.8
Mar 24, 2014

Example question: You are at a contractor work site repairing one machine which you were sent out to fix. A manager/team lead comes up to you and says their line went down and need assistance immediately. How would you handle this situation knowing that emergency repair is not only charged a different rate but would take time away from your current project?

They specifically asked to respond with real life examples, not "if I were i'd do this" hypothetical stuff. Which is kinda hard for a trainee candidate but ok. Again take this review with a grain of salt because I think I didn't make the cut. The interview consisted of two parts, your usual "describe us when you had this situation and what did you do about it", safety attitude questions, STAR format mostly. The second part was technical questions, what is kilowatt-hours, what's convection-vs-conduction. No questions regarding previous operating experience, unfortunately. I was prepared to go into great detail about my co-op and lab experience, just to show that I'm interested in a career as an operator. They seem to be more interested in a solid groundwork in technical knowledge and interpersonal communication skilllset.
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Nuclear Operator In-Training

Interviewed at Ontario Power Generation

4.2
Mar 1, 2019

They specifically asked to respond with real life examples, not "if I were i'd do this" hypothetical stuff. Which is kinda hard for a trainee candidate but ok. Again take this review with a grain of salt because I think I didn't make the cut. The interview consisted of two parts, your usual "describe us when you had this situation and what did you do about it", safety attitude questions, STAR format mostly. The second part was technical questions, what is kilowatt-hours, what's convection-vs-conduction. No questions regarding previous operating experience, unfortunately. I was prepared to go into great detail about my co-op and lab experience, just to show that I'm interested in a career as an operator. They seem to be more interested in a solid groundwork in technical knowledge and interpersonal communication skilllset.

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