Flowserve Applications Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Topics to prepare for EMERSON PROCESS MANAGEMENT Applications Engineer interview:

• Fluid Mechanics
• Heat Transfer

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Communication skills are important

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Keep it simple, no need to sweat it out as a fresher

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Casting background

Round: Test
Experience: Model test on creo 2

General Tips: Interview was excellent as they need mainly candidate having good product exposure in detail which ever field you are working make sure you have thorough knowledge.Gd&t must be good and cad knowledge is must...
Skills: Creo 2, Communication, Body Language, Leadership, Decision Making Skills
Duration: <1 week

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I had a standard resume for this company as per our institute placement cell norms. I usually changed my “Areas of Interest” as per the company profile. For Caterpillar, I laid emphasis on all of my technical activities.

Round: Test
Experience: The written test was purely technical covering almost all the major topics of Mechanical Engineering course curriculum. The questions related to Fluid Mechanics were particularly difficult. The questions were all objective and the test was for a duration of 90 minutes.
Tips: For Caterpillar, one must have in-depth knowledge of almost all major topics of mechanical.
Duration: 90 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The questions were totally technical. There were no HR questions even in the beginning. They asked me about my topic of interest and I replied as Solid Mechanics. They asked questions related to designing of stuff. For example one of the question that was asked from me was – How will you design a swimming diving board? It was a question on cantilever beam. The whole interview continued on this particular question. They kept on counter questioning and gave me additional situations as I proceeded and I had to incorporate them in my design process. They asked me to develop a static design and thereafter asked me to develop a dynamic design. Then they asked me for another subject of interest which I stated as vibration design. Then they asked me to do vibration analysis of the swimming board that I had designed earlier in the interview. They also asked me my favorite topic from class 10th and I replied as Mathematics. They asked me a simple question on it which I answered correctly.

College Name: IIT ROORKEE
Motivation: Most of the information regarding the company was obtained by attending the Pre-Placement Talk. The company is one of the pioneers in its field and hence it was sort of a dream company for students and we had researched about it by visiting its website and the Wikipedia Page.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: basic intro, focussed mainly on projexts you have done and softwares u know.. and basic core questions

General Tips: prepare well
Skills:
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: seniors good reviews

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Not very transparent and highly delayed.
Tips: Can indicate selection status immediately or within one day of announcement. One sentence describing reason for rejection or acceptance can be given.

Round: Test
Experience: N/A
Tips: N/A

General Tips: Please let us know in case of rejection or waiting list, we have to apply to other companies as well to secure an intern and a simple sentence on reason for rejection will be very helpful.
Skills: Python, Simulink, MATLAB
Duration: 1.5
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: Internationally reputed, Core mechanical company designing heavy machinery.