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The company:
A $15 million yearly revenue digital imaging company is hiring engineers for their design and development department. They're stationed in Japan but expanding and building headquarters and manufacturing facilities in China, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, UK, Canada and even the United States. I may or may not be doing material analysis for printer components, 3D printers, optical imaging devices, medical devices, X-Ray instruments.
How far I've been in the hiring process:
I've done one Skype interview with a third party recruiter/headhunter who found me on my University's job board. I passed and was passed along to hiring companies.
I then was scheduled for an in person interview in Los Angeles with some of their executive managers. I passed the in person interview and they were impressed with my Japanese proficiency and character.
After that, I had to submit a "research summary" which is basically a more detailed CV that lists specific programs, instruments and methods for various projects I've worked on. This research summary was for their technical managers to approve my qualifications. I passed and was moved to their standardized test.
I took their test, thought I bombed it because I didn't answer two quantitative questions and I had no idea how to act in the behavioral section. I passed with flying colors. Freaking Japanese people.
Now I'm in the very final phase of the interview process and I want to be very prepared. I'm going to be interviewed by a technical manager and almost everyone I know tells me that by this point, it's mostly a formality and I will most likely get the job as long as I don't fuck up. But I need your help. I will not be interviewed by a Japanese person this time, or at least, there will be an interpreter.
Now I'm studying for the interview and I figure, it's 40 minutes so it'll probably be broken down approximately as follows:
~5 minutes of warming up introduction questions
~The more focused questions
~5-10 minutes of me asking him questions and final responses
So that's roughly 25-30 minutes of detailed questions. Any advice?
A $15 million yearly revenue digital imaging company is hiring engineers for their design and development department. They're stationed in Japan but expanding and building headquarters and manufacturing facilities in China, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, UK, Canada and even the United States. I may or may not be doing material analysis for printer components, 3D printers, optical imaging devices, medical devices, X-Ray instruments.
How far I've been in the hiring process:
I've done one Skype interview with a third party recruiter/headhunter who found me on my University's job board. I passed and was passed along to hiring companies.
I then was scheduled for an in person interview in Los Angeles with some of their executive managers. I passed the in person interview and they were impressed with my Japanese proficiency and character.
After that, I had to submit a "research summary" which is basically a more detailed CV that lists specific programs, instruments and methods for various projects I've worked on. This research summary was for their technical managers to approve my qualifications. I passed and was moved to their standardized test.
I took their test, thought I bombed it because I didn't answer two quantitative questions and I had no idea how to act in the behavioral section. I passed with flying colors. Freaking Japanese people.
Now I'm in the very final phase of the interview process and I want to be very prepared. I'm going to be interviewed by a technical manager and almost everyone I know tells me that by this point, it's mostly a formality and I will most likely get the job as long as I don't fuck up. But I need your help. I will not be interviewed by a Japanese person this time, or at least, there will be an interpreter.
Now I'm studying for the interview and I figure, it's 40 minutes so it'll probably be broken down approximately as follows:
~5 minutes of warming up introduction questions
~The more focused questions
~5-10 minutes of me asking him questions and final responses
So that's roughly 25-30 minutes of detailed questions. Any advice?
