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).
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Caterpillar (Peoria, IL) in Aug 2011
Interview
It mainly consisted with behavioral questions.
There were three interviewers ( one for each session)Was one hour long, and consisted of1:1, . They asked your typical STAR questions. They were very professional and friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a situation when you are not agree with your supervisor?
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Caterpillar in Oct 2011
Interview
Very standard behavior based questions were asked. What bothered me was that the theme given for some of the questions didn’t actually fit the question themselves. For one question the theme was “Decision Making” and this was given before the actual question. The question was “When working with a team describe a time when you found a mistake and how you handled it.” Well obviously the question is easy, I found a problem and fixed it… I don’t understand why the theme for this question was “Decision Making.”
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Theme: Innovation Describe how you make important decisions.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Caterpillar (West Lafayette, IN) in Sep 2011
Interview
I applied through my college job posting site and via the company website. I got a response the next day to have a interview in my college the next week. It was a one on one interview (the only one needed to get the job). The interview was mostly basic questions. They had a list of questions from their roster. Only 6 of them were asked since it was a 30 minute interview. These questions were mostly determined two things, if they want to hire you and if so what location will you be of use the most.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Inovation: From the things you already know, have you ever applied them in a different setting where no one has thought of before.