Master 30 Automotive Emission Systems Engineer interview questions covering catalyst design, regulatory compliance, and diagnostic testing.
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Carilee Moran is a retired automotive engineer with 30 years of experience writing and editing technical reports.
Your answer to this question tells the interviewer something about how you view the world. What is more important for judging a person's fitness for a job - his specific technical knowledge or his general behavior and personality? Either one is a possibility. You may view a complete command of job-related technical detail as most important. No one can say this is wrong, but then you have to be prepared to deal with a wide range of personalities, some quite difficult. If you choose behavior/personality as the best differentiator between potential success and failure in a job, then you may need to be prepared to deal with a wider range of technical capability or knowledge.

Carilee Moran is a retired automotive engineer with 30 years of experience writing and editing technical reports.
"I would want to know what the person loves most about being an engineer. For me, everything else flows from the answer to that question. A candidate can talk about their love of learning, their love of creating actual, physical objects, their love of being part of an effort to produce products that may improve the standard of living or protect the environment. If they show me authentic enthusiasm about their chosen profession, then I believe that they will have the energy and desire to learn everything else they need to know to be successful."

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