Crane Aerospace & Electronics Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

The Engineering Manager and an HR rep looked over my resume, and then I was asked to talk about some of the things on it. They also asked some standard interview questions. I got an offer email about two weeks later.

Good preparation will make the interview easy. I prepared for the interview by: (1) Reading, on Glassdoor.com, questions that many other people were asked during Crane Inc. interviews. I wrote my own answers and memorized them. During the phone interview (and the later on-site interview), I found that this preparation helped a lot. (2) Reading other web sites with interview questions (some with answers too). I found hundreds questions. I didn’t have time to figure out answers to them all, but I wrote my own answers to several of the more commonly asked questions. (3) Reading web sites with questions to ask the interviewers (as soon as they ask “Do you have any questions?”). After all this preparation, I was able to answer almost all of their questions instantly. During both interviews (phone and on-site), there were several technical questions from the prospective manager and a few standard HR type behavioral questions. During the on-site interview, I was given a tour of several parts of their facility. After the phone interview, but before the on-site interview, I was asked to take a “behavioral traits assessment” on the web site of another company, which turned out to be a “Big Five” personality test. I was told that there are no right or wrong answers. I think that’s true for most of the questions, but there are some exceptions that might make some people hesitate to hire you. There are several web sites that let you take Big Five tests anonymously and which tell you how they judge your personality. I suggest using a few them before doing any employer’s version. The latter tells the judgement only to the employer, and I like to have some idea what the employer is being told.

The interview involved a big panel of current workers who didn't seem to agree with each other much... There were some technical questions, but HR didn't seem important.