Just to share my experience interviewing with Hilti Asia IT Services a few months ago. I applied for an IT Infrastructure Engineer position with Hilti. The office is no longer located at Phileo Damansara, but at Symphony House currently.

The first interview:
A phone interview between yourself and 3 interviewers. Very basic questions asked - mostly about going through your CV and identifying and clarifying certain grey areas. This goes on for about an hour.

The second interview:
A video conference (Lync) interview with the Group Lead of Workplace Platform and Client Services Team and Head of Workplace Platform Services. Make sure your internet connection is very, very stable or else you won't be able to grasp anything they ask/say properly. This interview is to find out about your attitude and if you are a perfect match for the "Hilti culture" and if they're a good match for you. They do tend to ask a few irrelevant questions during this interview, for God knows what reason. For example, they asked me "what is the best selling product of Hilti?" and "Where do you see the future of Microsoft heading?".

Third interview:
A face-to-face interview with Group Lead of Workplace Platform and Client Services Team (also in the video conference interview), the Managing Director of Hilti Asia IT Services and via video conference, the Head of IT Workplace & Application Services. Yes, it is a combination of face-to-face and video conference interview. Again, very similar to the second interview, going through your CV and identifying your attitude and recognizing your skills. Some questions regarding the technologies they're using in Hilti (e.g. Office 365 questions) and somewhat irrelevant questions (IMO) about the future of mobile computing and where does One Drive (formerly known as SkyDrive) fit in Microsoft's culture. With the Microsoft-based questions they were asking me, for a moment I thought I was applying to Microsoft...

4th interview:
Again, a face-to-face interview with four people. Group Lead of Workplace Platform and Client Services Team, 2 of his team members and Hilti Asia IT Services' Regional Infrastructure Manager. The purpose of this interview is to ask regarding your personal background and technical knowledge. During this stage of the interview, you might feel that you're in an interrogation room instead of an interview room. They will attempt, at their very best, to patronize and undermine your knowledge and skills and although this might be just me, but I really felt a bit disrespected by the panel of interviewers during this stage. I guess the purpose of this interview is to test your patience as well! Haha.

And there's supposed to be a FIFTH interview should I pass the fourth one, but unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you see it), I didn't. Five interviews for a junior role in their IT Services team seem like a bit too much for me. But as one forummer said, it is up to them and it is their right to conduct interviews anyway they see fit, so...

In a nutshell, this is what I could summarize from some forummer's responses:
> The "cina apek" style is definitely there. The company is mostly Chinese, with one Indian guy in the team and no Malay or Sikh or other races on sight.
> I, too, have no idea what criteria is Hilti expecting. Probably the perfect candidate/employee. But newsflash, with 5 interview sessions, rest assured the perfect candidate/employee would have been snagged by someone else by then.
> For a company that presents itself as being "people-friendly" and "people-centric", I feel that they don't really respect potential candidates and would undermine their achievements and knowledge at any given chance they get. So, be prepared (and be patient) to feel insulted during their interviews (just a personal opinion).

Anyway, good luck if you're applying for Hilti. You might need it. Again, I have to stress that this is only applicable for those applying for Hilti Asia IT Services. I have no idea how their sales/marketing/etc interviews would go but I bet it'll be similar.

I am not at liberty to discuss whether or not the company is good or bad but it all boils down to the experience you go through individually. Some might not feel what I felt, because if they did, then no one would be employed there. But if you ask for my personal opinion, if I were to be given an offer today to work there, I wouldn't. I would avoid the place like the plague. Simply because I don't feel like working in an environment where the senior employees would treat potential/new employees in a very arrogant manner, as I felt I had been treated. I wouldn't want to be in a toxic working environment like that. And that is, again, as I've stressed before, my own personal opinion.

In order for you to know for sure, you gotta apply for a job there and attend the interview(s). Then, you can share your experiences here for the benefit of others. What you go through might differ from what some of us have went through, so it could give a different perspective of the "Hilti way".

P/s: Just to clarify, my interview with Hilti is limited to Hilti IT Asia Services and not other divisions of Hilti, so my experience might not correlate with yours if you applied for a different role.

This post has been edited by sammy86: May 5 2014, 01:41 AM

Dude, please don't allow yourself to say something like that (bolded) just because of a bad interview. No one's "not smart", it's all about how we improve ourselves. Try applying for IBM, T-Systems, HP, banks, or even start up companies. Invest your time in knowledge and garnering experience, instead of harvesting the negative energy these guys bestowed upon you. It isn't worth an afterthought. Good luck

Er... You can read the very lengthy post I submitted a while back regarding the interview process. Or you could go here to read it: https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...post&p=67199336