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    • Sourcing Management Trainee Interview

      Mar 17, 2015
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Roanoke, VA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Norfolk Southern (Roanoke, VA) in Mar 2015

      Interview

      1st interview was with a HR representative at my university. This interview was basically to ensure that you are not crazy. Pretty easy. The 2nd round was 4 one-on-one interviews with directors and a VP all who you ultimately would be working for. This interview was in Roanoke. There was also an essay to write which was a surprise since there was no warning about this prior to the interviews. The question is below. Seems self explanatory, but know EVERYTHING on your resume down to the details. Be ready to talk about your current classes.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      Walk us through how you would figure out how to find the price we should pay for wheels that go on our trains.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      If we wanted to in-house the teams that move our train crews to hotels and back when they reach their hours limits, what things would we need to look at to realize the cost of this proposition?
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Tell me your background with negotiation, either professionally or personally.
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      Question 4

      What are you looking for out of Norfolk Southern?
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      Question 5

      Essay Question: Background: We already have 1000 units of Electronic Video Systems installed on our trains. We want to obtain 500 more units. We put out a request for proposal from the company that we already have the systems from as well as their competitors. We received the quotes back and eventually decide to choose the current company anyways. Problem: We have portions of our tracks that other railroad companies use as well. They utilize the competitor's electronic video systems which our users are not familiar with. To alleviate this problem, we want to obtain 1 system from each competitor so that we can look into the system to understand how it works and how to use it so that we can train our users. We reach out to the competitors and all but one respond with a quote. ABC company has 2 reservations about the request. 1.) We used the previous bid process to beat down their competitors prices and 2.) they are afraid that we would discover proprietary information about their system during our tests which could be leaked. Write a brief email to ABC company using the above reasoning to encourage them to reconsider their decision concerning this request.
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