Fire Engineering applicants have rated the interview process at Arup with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Fire Engineering roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Arup overall takes an average of 39 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Arup as a Fire Engineering according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Arup in Mar 2015
Interview
Two men conference called me and worked together to ask questions about my previous experience and course knowledge. These guys were incredibly nice but seemed to not care what my answers were. They seemed to already have had their minds made up.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Think of a building on campus, how would you make it more sustainable?
Experience to gauge soft skills; an examples when did you not agree with someone?
Time where you knew nothing about something and how did you increase your knowledge.
One conflict you had on a team and how did you solve it.
How are you proficient or have come to be proficient with AutoCAD/Autodesk software?
I applied online. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Arup (Edinburgh, Scotland) in Mar 2015
Interview
Was mostly an overview of the fire engineering departments over the UK, and what they dealt with. Only a couple of times I felt they were really looking for a 'correct answer' and that is to show your understanding of the principles of fire engineering and also a competency based question.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Name an example of when you displayed ability to work in a team.