I applied online. I interviewed at Barry-Wehmiller (Columbus, OH) in Jan 2017
Interview
Two phone screens, one face-to-face and a lot of waiting. I sent a resume in November, did the first phone screen in December and a face-to-face in January.
I got the impression they wanted to hire people who could bring in business right away. You know somebody who worked with P&G last year and can make a call to do work for them. The office was nearly empty. Every engineer I met said they were working for companies they'd work for in the past. There were maybe 5 engineers in a billet for 20.
Once I had a face-to-face nothing happened until March when, after several calls, they said they were not interested: "We're pursuing other candidates at this time."
Bottom line: unless you can land a contract that they can take over you won't get an offer.
Call by HR. Advanced PLC programming skills were a must for the job. Job description would only say that a general understanding was needed. I was offered an FSE position because I was not qualify for the project engineer role
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe your job as a project manager in your current job
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Barry-Wehmiller (Raleigh, NC) in Nov 2021
Interview
30 minutes phone call. Interviewer asked about past experiences and about experience with PLC programming and mechanical design. Position was onsite with travel up to 50%. I decided to not continue with the process
I applied through other source. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Barry-Wehmiller (Portland, OR) in Jan 2018
Interview
After almost three months of back and forth, they called me in for an interview. The HR rep had no clue of how to use the Outlook calendar; he missed multiple phone appointments he had with me. Emails and communications with him involved bad grammar, bad spelling which gave me a bad impression of the company. The interview date finally arrived. It was Long, boring and overkill. The interview involved multiple engineers coming in and out of the conference room asking me pretty much the same thing over and over. I was there from 8 am to 12 pm. They said that their impression was positive and that they wanted to hire me, They were going to run a background check and degree verification., but it didnt get to that. I called to follow up on how the process was going , just to learn that the position was "closed". Who knows what happened and honestly, dont care. Good thing I didnt leave my perfectly good job for this big unknown of a company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical boiler plate questions while going over my resume. Easy interview
Project Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Barry-Wehmiller with 2.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 38% positive. To compare, the company-average is 43.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Project Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Barry-Wehmiller overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Barry-Wehmiller as a Project Engineer according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
Group panel interview: 24%
One on one interview: 19%
Drug test: 10%
Skills test: 10%
Presentation: 5%
Background check: 5%
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