Preparing for a interview

[LONDONDERRY]

I have a question in how to prepare for an Senior Mechanical Engineer interview. In past interviews I've brought a portfolio with past projects I've worked on. I've brought product pictures, some detail drawing of sheet metal, machined and wiring drawings plus some product tree drawings. However from past interviews I'm not sure if this helps or hurts in the interview process. I usually find myself talking more about the products I've worked on (almost as a sales engineer) and less about myself. I few times I caught this during the interview but it was to late. However on an interview I'm preparing for this week the potential company want to hear about some of the products I worked on.. can anyone give me a few tips on portfolio presentation and communication??


thanks

 

[LONDONDERRY]

So today I have an interview and what are some good questions I should be asking the director of engineering?

I was thinking about describing their ECO and PO process. The reason I considering asking these question is where I'm currently working these process are in such a disarray it impact customer deliverables

 

[KENAT]

That is a bit of an in the weeds question, I'm not saying don't ask it but try to ask it in a higher level way - if that makes any sense.

For example maybe a higher level question about configuration control & data management or some such.

This of course depends a bit on the position you are applying for though, if applying for a CM job then may be entirely appropriate.

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[LONDONDERRY]

Good point.. its a ME position not CM/CE job