A recruiter sent my resume to the company, and a few days later I was contacted by HR. We set up a date and time for an interview in approximately 2 weeks time. I live about 4 hours away from the site. The week of the interview, HR called and pushed the interview back a week due to key personnel being unavailable. That's fine; these things happen, but I guess they're lucky I'm unemployed and have flexibility. The interview was intended to have 6 parts: a plant tour and 5 interview sessions lasting an hour each. The interviews were supposed to consist of an HR interview, 3 panel interviews, and a final 1-on-1 session. The interview started awkwardly: the engineer giving the tour asked how it was going so far and seemed taken aback when I told him he was the first person I had talked to. On the plant tour, I was introduced to some of the people I would be talking to. Most seemed surprised and possibly a bit annoyed that they had to do an interview that day. They told me they were presently dealing with a process upset. "Alright," I thought to myself, "it's a fast-paced, 24/7 manufacturing environment. I get it; I can roll with the punches." In the first panel interview, two of the three interviewers were late. This was only a portent for what was to come. The next two turned into 1-on-1's; one guy tried calling his colleague to see if he was going to show up before starting a casual chat about industrial chemical accidents, saying he was happy to work in a part of the chemical industry that had less potential for a major incident. I (somewhat tactlessly) brought up an incident at one of the company's sites that I had discovered while studying for the interview. Hey, he started it. The final interviewer didn't show up at all. He wasn't there that day. They told me they would have a decision for me in two weeks. I had to call the third week (after getting no response with an email) to be informed that they had decided not to hire anyone at the moment. I actually thought the interviews went okay, but looking back I can't be surprised that I didn't get the job considering half the people I was intended to talk to didn't think it was important enough to show up. Now I'm just hoping I get reimbursed for travel expenses. Doesn't really seem worth the time I spent preparing for the interview and traveling. Message for HR/Management: this is clearly an interview format that does not work for your business, and it makes you seem really unprofessional.

One phone interview with HR manager for 30 min. One phone interview with Hiring Manager for 30 min. On-site interview (4 hrs) with Hiring manager, Operations Manager, and Maintenance Manager. Most questions were behavioral based. Almost completely non-technical! I thought the employees and managers I met were OK but nothing special. I probably would have got bored with the job after a year since it has pretty simple processes (manufacture PTA and PET).