Pretty standard HR phone interview, they told me about the job, benefits, requirements. There wasn't any of the typical BS, what are your strengths, weaknesses, past experiences dealing with x or y. After the HR interview they set up an interview over the phone with my direct manager, which really just consisted of asking me why I was willing to leave a competitor, and was mostly just talking about the types of turbines, and the differences in the job from my current position as well as what would be required to get me to come on with Vestas. Note that I worked in a harsher environment on similar equipment and have a degree that exceeds the requirements for the position, so they just assumed that I had most of the technical and physical requirements down. This was by far the most comfortable interview that I have ever had, they were friendly and really considered how I could fit in with the team, they told me about my coworkers and it felt more like a chat about what I didn't have at work and what I could have rather than a predetermined corporate process.

A three-stage interview process. The first is a pre-screen call from a Vestas hiring centre that was located in a different country. The second was a short, ad hoc/cursory telephone conversation with a site manager, and the last was a continuation on the latter’s theme with the same site manager, but extended to 20 minutes this time. The entire process was so poorly orchestrated, and so inept, that partway through my final interview I was praying that I’d get a call from another potential employer who received my application a week earlier in a non-related industry. Enough was inadvertently conveyed by the freshly-appointed site manager that spoke volumes about the undesirability of the job that it came as a relief not to have an offer extended to me. There wasn’t anything job-specific that sounded alarm bells, but the culture of the company, and it’s expectations, left everything to be desired, as they anticipate that even in your time away from Vestas, you will be bettering yourself in activities that will directly benefit the company. Another facet that was inadvertently conveyed by the site manager was the extremely high turnover in the company, and his inability to give straight answers to straight questions, as he contradicted himself on so many occasions that I was wondering how he managed to get the position to begin with. In the end, it was a blessing to be exposed to the company through its intemperate site manager, as it then wasn’t a loss to not be offered the position.