Interviewing with the Enemy Tomorrow

[rousie13]

Tomorrow I'm interviewing with Honda. I'd be helping design the block/head of the Civic. I really hope I get an offer from them because this job would be so fun. Let the flaming begin.

[Twinchy]

Good Luck

[Andrew300zx]

I'm jealous of anyone that works with cars for a living- Good luck!
Modified by Andrew300zx at 8:02 PM 11/18/2004

[rousie13]

Another company that I can probably almost certainly get into is Lubrizol in Cleveland. They do testing on engines with different kinds of oils and such in them. You get to tear the motors down after a test to take measurements to calculate the wear. Some of the tests are on road which is cool.

[Altiman94]

u can do the honors of finally building a honda wiht some torque. Good luck.

[nismofly]

thats what i was going to say, make the engine have some grunt under it

[SeVa-S13]

That job would be amazing, even though it's for a Civic. Ya gotta work your way up, the NSX could use some help maybe?

[DAEDALUS]

Shake things up! Storm in there with a crazed look in your eyes, glare at the interviewer, and loudly ask, "From which desk would you like me to concurrently improve efficiency, increase reliability and cut manufacturing costs? WHEN CAN I START, BlTCH?!"That'll make an impression. However you decide to approach them, good luck.

[gabossie]

That sounds like it would be an awesome job. Good luck.

[SeVa-S13]

Shake things up! Storm in there with a crazed look in your eyes, glare at the interviewer, and loudly ask, "From which desk would you like me to concurrently improve efficiency, increase reliability and cut manufacturing costs? WHEN CAN I START, BlTCH?!"That'll make an impression. However you decide to approach them, good luck.

That's probabaly the funniest thing I've read all week.

[driverdriver]

Good luck with your interview!

Funny story, I use to work for General Motors head office in the 90's. I stuck out like a sore thumb, because I was the only employee who did not drive a GM product. Initially I owned and Audi which traded up to an Infiniti. The rednecks in management didn't understand, they thought their STS was a good a car if not better than mine, that's till I started showing them the fit&finish and refinment of the car, which they reluctantly accepted. I resisted there overtures to trade in my J30t for an STS from the factory even at a deep discount. The union was mad as hell with me, I was eventually asked indirectly to park as far away from the front entrance as possible, partly because the public and media also used the same entrance.

[rousie13]

If they gave me a Honda at a deep discount, I think I'd take an S2000.

[PalmerWMD]

Shake things up! Storm in there with a crazed look in your eyes, glare at the interviewer, and loudly ask, "From which desk would you like me to concurrently improve efficiency, increase reliability and cut manufacturing costs? WHEN CAN I START, BlTCH?!".

Thats basically what I did on my job interview today in maryland... It was at The United States Treaty Lab

Fred..

PS good luck with the job, no flaming here

[hannibal]

Good luck rousie!!Shoot, I'd work for John Deere if they'd let me design motors!

[base9se]

good luck man..I am current designing the '06 civic type-r alternator

[rousie13]

I'll do a few modifications to the motor and just accidently add a turbo on the civic motor and send it into production. Would that make the civics more fun?

[GoinBoostYey]

Why hate on the Honda? I own a Honda I dont hate on Nissan drviers. Just because some Honda heads dotn like nissans doesnt make Honda's bad cars or the people that own them bad people. I love my Honda, but I now want a rwd turbo for fun + I want to test my driving skills in auto x with rwd.

Before I forget GL with the interview and I hope you get that job.

[SeVa-S13]

Wait, who "hated" on Honda? :confused

[rousie13]

Wait, who "hated" on Honda? :confused

Me too.

If he's talking about me, I have absolutely nothing against Honda's. I was looking at S2k's and thinking about buying one. I just said let the flaming begin because I though guys were gonna give me **** as a joke.

[Jesda]

Just to be different:

I HOPE YOU FAIL! MISERABLY!

Okay, not really. Good luck, sounds awesome.

[krazy skwerel]

Rock the vote rousie...I mean good luck! This makes me wish i had stayed in engineering. Working in design has got to be sweet and only second to testing the finished products.

[base9se]

I work in design & get to test out the product.

[HashiriyaS14]

Hondas are cool, even Civics. Spoon doesn't make 15,000rpm Silvias, lol.

Seriously though, that's awesome. Good luck, I hope you get it. Maybe then you can convince Honda to bring the CTR over here so I can get one used in a few years.

[rousie13]

Well I found out I'd be working on the manufacturing line, not actual research/development. Who knows if I'll get an offer, but time will tell.

I thought I nailed the interview though....had awesome car related examples for nearly every question.

[nismofly]

sweet good stuff

so if your on the line what will you be doing? i realize that sounds obvious but theres a lot of stuff that goes on.

[rousie13]

sweet good stuff

so if your on the line what will you be doing? i realize that sounds obvious but theres a lot of stuff that goes on.

I could be:

-checking tolerances of pieces that come out of the casting process(quality control)-setting up machinery and helping to fix brocken machinery-designing and setting up jigs-over seeing the aluminum and iron castings for the motors-and there was more that I can't remember and that the lady interviewing me didn't know

[Doomed2Walk]

Sounds good. That still sounds like a fun job.