Candidatei-me online. Fui entrevistado pela Atlas Copco Group (Wilrijk, Antwerp) em set. de 2023
Entrevista
I found the position on Linkedin and applied on their website. I was contacted by phone within a couple of days and asked a few questions about my current work situation and why I applied at their company. Then I was invited to an online HR interview to get to know more about the company and discuss my experience/motivation in more detail. After I was sent an online assessment test. The test has 3 parts: personality, motivation, and general ability. The general ability test is extremely difficult. I had 24 questions to solve in 36 minutes. Throughout the test, I wondered if their goal was to test how well you work under time pressure, if/when you decide to skip a question, etc. Because with an average of 1.5 min/question, I doubt it is possible for anyone to actually complete it in the given time. The test didn't check programming knowledge or anything like that. Instead, it was math-heavy. I had to solve equations, calculate percentages, and adjust graphs most of the time. I am usually pretty confident when taking these types of tests, but this was quite new to me. Pattern matching was the only kind of problem that I had encountered in other tests as well. Fast forward one week, I got a phone call from HR to relay some feedback. Apparently, I had scored above average on the ability test, but my personality didn't seem to match the company culture, so they would not be moving forward with the interview process. I am honestly gutted. I would have preferred to fail based on ability. I didn't expect them to say I did well on that anyway. But this... I don't know how to react to it. Out of all the interviews I had in the past weeks the one with Atlas Copco was the best - professional, but at the same time friendly/easy to talk to. So based on that alone I had a very good impression of the company and was excited at the prospect of working there. I guess it wasn't meant to be :( I appreciate them taking the time to give me feedback, though.