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I applied online. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Medtronic (Northridge, CA) in Feb 2014
Interview
Company took several weeks to get back with me in regards to my applications. The day of the face to face interview for the position of Data Analyst, the HR contact I was supposed to meet did not show up for work that day and no one had any idea where he was. This set off my interview schedule by 25 minutes and every interview was hurried as a result. There seemed to be no agreement between the interviewers on what the job entailed. I got the distinct impression that the problems being discussed by the interviewers had gone on for years. In the case of the second position of Database Marketing Manager, the problems had gone for years as well. I was rejected for both positions. Then 2 weeks after I was rejected for the second position, I was contacted by a staffing agency for the same job. This was after the company told me it had already hired someone else for the same job two weeks prior.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were some questions in regards to the Data Analyst position in regards to procurement.
I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Medtronic (Fridley, MN) in Feb 2014
Interview
Applied in late October of 2013, received a call late in January or early February of 2014 asking to fill out a questionaire (Almost sheet of questions you would be asked in an interview) with some technical questions.
Received another call a few weeks later saying that I was selected to move to the next stage which was hinted at as an onsite interview and that I would be contacted in the near future (couple days).
Did not receive a phone call within that time period so waited a few extra days and sent an email. No response for a few days so called and left a message. No response for about a week and then received an email from the same person I had been trying to contact saying that he wanted my skype username to do a skype interview. Was kinda odd as I was led on to believe I was going down there, but no big deal.
Was contacted a half a week to week later to set up a skype interview. I gave a few 2-2.5 hour time slots and was told that they wanted to do a 3 hour skype interview. Thought that seemed to be a long skype interview and happened to be going to Minneapolis for another interview later that week so I offered to stop by in the afternoon. They agreed and set up some times.
End of February was the interview time. Interview consisted of four 45 minute interviews with one person each. Questions were all behavior based and they were really looking to be stepped through the task, action, and result which was handy if you got off topic.
I was told during the interview that it would be about a month before I would hear back. With how other offers were lining up as well as wanting to check up, I sent an email to the person who mentioned that questions should be directed to them. This was a day or two before the month mark. It has been about a week since I sent the email, and I have not heard back from the individual.
Accepted another offer so did not entertain an offer from Medtronic.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Pretty known interview style with behavior based questions. Of course you cannot prepare for all of them, but some preparation in thinking of situations helps.
I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Medtronic in Mar 2014
Interview
Telephone interview with recruiter followed by entire day of interview with panel of people from the group, mix of technical and hypothetical questions were asked