Mechanical Aptitude test and interview questions....

Peter Diffey

Peter Diffey

Peter Diffey

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Hello ladies and gents.

I have an interview to attend which also entails completing a mechanical aptitude test (the ones with gears, pulleys etc - basic physics knowlegde).

I remember maybe a year ago sometime someone posted a link to a mechanical aptitude test for everyone to have a go at, it was fairly challenging I remember, anyone got the link to it? (yes I have done extensive googling)

I am also wondering, what is the toughest question that you have been asked in an interview before?

Any help or advice would be appreciated :)
 
Peter Diffey said:
I am also wondering, what is the toughest question that you have been asked in an interview before?
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"If there was one thing in the world you could change what would it be and why would you change it?"

Interview for Shell for an exploration engineer :o

KaHn
 
Maybe not the most difficult, but certainly an interesting one - I was asked how many families buy Pampers a week in the UK.

That was an analyst job for the company who runs Tesco's Clubcard. I got offered the job but didn't take it.
In some ways I regret it as it would probably have been interesting work (and the office was very cool) but it wasn't what I wanted to do at the time.
 
Peter Diffey said:
What sort of answer did you give for that? :p
My interview is for an engineering role too, so if you have any other tough questions please post them!
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Well I work for an oil company now and I impressed my boss a lot at the recruitment fair that when I came up for the interview she (at the time it was a he :eek:) just said this is just to show you around you have the job if you want it.

But for the Shell interview it was hard, I basically talked about the bounderies between different countries and cultures.

KaHn
 
KaHn said:
Well I work for an oil company now and I impressed my boss a lot at the recruitment fair that when I came up for the interview she (at the time it was a he :eek:) just said this is just to show you around you have the job if you want it.

But for the Shell interview it was hard, I basically talked about the bounderies between different countries and cultures.

KaHn
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Well I can imagine the Shell one being hard, that has got to be one of the most competative engineering graduate schemes, along with BP :p
 
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