There were multiple openings for the same job title, 2024 interview process involved a large panel of 8-10 management employees. No HR. Rather than focusing on understanding my background, capabilities, or assessing whether I’d be able to get my job done, the questions felt more like challenged follow up questions to my responses. They seemed random and unstructured, not based on a prepared list. I honestly thought the interview wasn’t going well, so I was surprised when I received an offer.

First, there is an initial one hour interview with the plant director and assistant director, If you pass the initial interview, then you have a second interview with the same plant management as well as the production and packaging manager for about one hour as well. Oddly enough, the plant directors emphasized very heavily on "getting operators to work" and talked poorly about operators. They were looking for a candidate who would "write people up" for every little thing on the job, eluding to a culture of micromanagement. Management will be very deceptive in the amount of hours they are expecting you to work. I was lied to during the interview and said that there was a fully staffed team of supervisors and I could expect a set number of hours a week. However, in reality, they were understaffed in supervisors, were expecting supervisors to work 50-60 hours weekly, and planning to give little time off. The interview by management is meant to determine if you are are a candidate that would not speak out against them and someone who is easy to boss around. If you want the job, all you have to say is that you're willing to work weekends and very flexible in your working hours, considering that they don't plant to give you any time off at all and take advantage of the fact they don't have to pay supervisors overtime.