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There were no really difficult or unexpected questions. It was a typical interview day. I meat with five current employees who I would coordinate on projects with day-to-day. The interview lasted five hours, including lunch.
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Water Resources Engineer I

Interviewed at Arcadis

3.9
Sep 25, 2014

There were no really difficult or unexpected questions. It was a typical interview day. I meat with five current employees who I would coordinate on projects with day-to-day. The interview lasted five hours, including lunch.

1) Sum of all the numbers from 1 to 100 2) You have a 3 and a 5 liter water container. You also have a running tap. You must use the containers and the tap in such a way as to exactly measure out 4 liters of water. What is the the minimum number of pourings you can do to achieve that? 3)There are 9 balls out of which one ball is heavy in weight and rest are of the same weight. In how many occurrences will you find the heavy ball? 4) You roll a dice 3 times. What is the probability to land on the same side all the three times? 5) There are 3 letters, one is a job offer and the other two are rejections. You choose one and it is a rejection. Your manager offers you to take a second letter. Would you take it? 6) What is your opinion about sustainability in the future in the build environment 7) Who do you think is more important to the society, the Comedian the Engineer or the Doctor? And why? 8) What are the two most important skills an effective consultant should have? 9) Give an example of a time you invented or improved a process 10) Tell us a time that team work helped you to produced better results than you would on your own 11) Tell us a time you worked on a project with little or no instruction. How did you manage to complete it
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Graduate Water Engineer

Interviewed at Buro Happold

4
May 11, 2018

1) Sum of all the numbers from 1 to 100 2) You have a 3 and a 5 liter water container. You also have a running tap. You must use the containers and the tap in such a way as to exactly measure out 4 liters of water. What is the the minimum number of pourings you can do to achieve that? 3)There are 9 balls out of which one ball is heavy in weight and rest are of the same weight. In how many occurrences will you find the heavy ball? 4) You roll a dice 3 times. What is the probability to land on the same side all the three times? 5) There are 3 letters, one is a job offer and the other two are rejections. You choose one and it is a rejection. Your manager offers you to take a second letter. Would you take it? 6) What is your opinion about sustainability in the future in the build environment 7) Who do you think is more important to the society, the Comedian the Engineer or the Doctor? And why? 8) What are the two most important skills an effective consultant should have? 9) Give an example of a time you invented or improved a process 10) Tell us a time that team work helped you to produced better results than you would on your own 11) Tell us a time you worked on a project with little or no instruction. How did you manage to complete it

Why Mott MacDonald? What do you know about Mott MacDonald? What were the subjects you enjoyed most at Uni and why? What would you bring to this role? What is the biggest problem we need to face in the water sector in the future? What did you do during your placements? Are you free to move around within the company? Tell me about a time you had to overcome a difficult obstacle?
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Graduate Civil Engineer (Water)

Interviewed at Mott MacDonald

3.9
Jul 28, 2016

Why Mott MacDonald? What do you know about Mott MacDonald? What were the subjects you enjoyed most at Uni and why? What would you bring to this role? What is the biggest problem we need to face in the water sector in the future? What did you do during your placements? Are you free to move around within the company? Tell me about a time you had to overcome a difficult obstacle?

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