Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Caterpillar as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Praktikant and Service Maintenance Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Praktikant and Service Maintenance Engineer roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Caterpillar takes an average of 59 days when considering 2 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Service Maintenance Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 59 days), whereas Service Maintenance Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 59 days).
Long but manageable. The interviews themselves were what is to be expected. Stated with a phone screening, to a 3 person paneled interview, to a one on one interview. My recruiter was not great at timely communication. Overall not too bad and not extraneous.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How my previous employment would translate into this role
I applied online. I interviewed at Caterpillar (Peterborough, England) in Nov 2025
Interview
Online Application
You begin by submitting an application through the official Caterpillar careers portal with your CV, education details, and sometimes a cover letter or competency-based questions.
2. Online Assessments & Video Interview
If your application passes initial screening, you’ll usually be invited to complete online assessments, which can include personality, situational judgement, and numerical or cognitive tests.
Following this, there is often a pre-recorded video interview stage. You’ll receive questions (typically behavioural or competency-based, often STAR-style) which you record answers to within a set time. Some schemes give you a week to complete this.
After completing the online assessment I was asked to complete the online interview through willo. There were four questions. They give you 15 minutes total to prepare and answer each question. You have two attempts for each question.