Ford Motor Company Interview Questions

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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Ford Motor Company.

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interview via web conference with three managers, pretty relaxed atmosphere, interview was very short, about 15 minutes, I received the offer the next day. I was very surprised that there was only one round of interviews.

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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Ford Motor Company.

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Got selected based only on phone interview

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Negotiation

No negotiation, flat rate.

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I applied in-person. The process took a week. I interviewed at Ford Motor Company (Sandusky, OH (US)) in January 2010.

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Just one interview was very professional and easy going.

Application

I applied online. I interviewed at Ford Motor Company (Ann Arbor, MI (US)) in August 2017.

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Phone conversation with in-house recruiter where she asked me questions and wrote down my responses verbatim on what I assume was an in-house electronic application that I could have easily filled out myself.

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I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Ford Motor Company (Ann Arbor, MI (US)) in October 2014.

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I met with representatives at a career fair and they took my resume and information. I received an email about a week later saying they wanted to have a phone interview. I scheduled the phone interview and they called me to ask some questions. They asked about me personally, and asked one technical question.

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I applied online. The process took 3+ months. I interviewed at Ford Motor Company (Allen Park, MI (US)) in January 2015.

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Applied to posting from Monster,com, brief phone interview, then flight, hotel, & transportation covered for in-person interview in Dearborn. The position I applied to was way out of my league, and I was quite surprised that they even called, but maybe they get a commission for the number of people they bring in to interview? I answered a few basic programming questions over the phone and a couple weeks later they asked me to schedule a time to come to Dearborn. Free flight, free limousine service to the Dearborn Inn (which is a sight to see), $25 dinner voucher, then shuttle transportation to the interview center.

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Application

I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Ford Motor Company in March 2013.

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Got referred from an employee at Ford. Not sure about the specific name of this position.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI (US)) in June 2016.

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A brief phone screen with a recruiter, then another discussion with a manager, resulted in an on-site interview. This interview was with the hiring manager and two other engineers.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Ford Motor Company (Allen Park, MI (US)) in October 2015.

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I recently completed a full interview sequence at Ford Motor Company and thought it might be helpful to recap the experience.

I am not 100% certain how things work for regular Ford candidates but I get the impression that for most candidates, the process is simply a phone interview to start with and then the one panel interview done on-site (which is a pleasant, very dramatic contrast from the intensive, multi-round, multiple-half/full day interviewing scenarios most software engineering candidates will get at any other company). In my particular case, I did three rounds of interviewing (one phone, two on-site) because the group I was interviewing with was a start-up company that Ford acquired, and the third round was the FMC standard interview which I’ll be recapping here.

For the on-site interview, Ford has a set-up a cavernous, cinder-block-walled “talent center” for interviewing within a strip-mall like office complex about 1 - 2 miles from the “Glass House” (the informal name for their glass-clad 1960’s-style World Headquarters). Pay attention to the sentence in the interview arrangements e-mail that says “show up early!”; this is so they can show you a 15 - 20 minutes of videos (a canned “Welcome to Ford!” video, plus a “Pure Michigan” video which tries to promote why Michigan is actually a really good place to live).

Then comes the panel interview. In my case it was three people, the CEO of the startup that Ford acquired (Livio Radio, to be specific), plus a Ford chief electrical product analyst and a feature owner (project/product manager?). Each of them took turns reading off prepared (standard) questions from sheets of papers. Many of the questions were standard interviewing questions (“what are the accomplishments you’re most proud of?”), and there were a few broad technical questions in there such as “how would you design an API to interface with a deck of cards?”, “For a given middle school, describe how many buses would be needed to move students in and out most efficiently?”. All in all, nothing unexpected for anyone with a CS degree and I was very thankful to be able to engage with and ask the panel my own questions between theirs.

After the panel interview is concluded and handshakes are done, you’ll be offered the opportunity to take a guided tour, which will either be a drive around the many various buildings that Ford uses in the Dearborn area or a tour of the famous Rouge manufacturing complex (which is where raw elements/materials go in on one end, completely manufactured cars come out the other). I think there’s a lunch included as well, but since I was a local candidate I took off before the tour and didn’t get to find out what kind of sandwiches they distribute in the Talent Center candidate lunchroom.

And as a nice “thank you” gesture, the Ford talent center personnel even provide candidates with a parting gift: a little insulated cooler bag filled with a few different pieces of Ford schwag (a thermos, a can opener, a flashlight which I regret immediately losing).

Hopefully my experience with the Ford interview process will help you to prepare to pass your interviewing day. If you find any of the information in this review helpful, please let me know by voting "Yes" on the "Helpful?" question below (this helps to motivate me to be as detailed as possible).

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Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI (US)) in October 2014.

Interview

First session was a group/panel discussion. Separated students into groups and then interviewed them one by one with two to three Ford employees asking questions. After this on a second day was a much smaller group with each individual going into a cube with three interviewers asking questions. Second round of interview was around 3 hours of question and answers.

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