Good benefits, flexible schedule, and short travel from the city.
Work is uninspiring and boring.
No job I've had has required more than a high school education.
Lots of dumb people work here due to managers only hiring kids from their alma mater. Management is generally a mess.
You'll have to work here for 15-20 years before you even sniff any preliminary design work.
Promotions are often less than 3%.
Yearly raises are about 2.5%.
Pay is good enough to make you think, "Hey, at least I have a job."
Start looking at college graduates from top engineering schools and not just the most common one in the area.
Eliminate unnecessary mid-level management jobs.
Behavioral-based interview over the phone. Asked when I had situations where I had to overcome an obstacle or had a situation where I had to deal with a diverse group. Basically, I just had a few accomplishments from my college career that I thought
1. Interview STAR method. When you made a mistake? Difficult time? Deadline? It was online, no video required. Negotiations were with HR. Took about a week of process. The process was easy.
The interview was very strictly formatted, which was helpful. The answers had to follow a specific framework (STAR), which helps you to properly hit all points of the question. The entire interview was behavioral.
Behavioral-based interview over the phone. Asked when I had situations where I had to overcome an obstacle or had a situation where I had to deal with a diverse group. Basically, I just had a few accomplishments from my college career that I thought
1. Interview STAR method. When you made a mistake? Difficult time? Deadline? It was online, no video required. Negotiations were with HR. Took about a week of process. The process was easy.
The interview was very strictly formatted, which was helpful. The answers had to follow a specific framework (STAR), which helps you to properly hit all points of the question. The entire interview was behavioral.