market_realist · 3 replies
interviewing for a supply chain role at J&J in about 3 weeks. anyone willing to drop what their recent loop looked like? rounds, format, what they tested. trying to figure out if i need to brush up on case frameworks or if it's going to be straight behavioral.
went through ops rotational last year. it was: phone screen with recruiter (30 min), HM video call (45 min, mostly behavioral with one situational case about a supplier disruption), then a panel with 3 people across sourcing, planning, and finance. no technical test, all conversation. the situational stuff was pretty grounded, not abstract. they gave me a real-sounding scenario and asked how i'd manage it.
Supply chain and ops at large pharma tends to have more scenario-based questions than pure case frameworks. The difference: a case expects you to structure from scratch, a scenario gives you a situation and wants to see your priorities and tradeoffs. Brush up on things like make-vs-buy decisions, single-source risk, and regulatory constraints. Those tend to come up in pharma supply chain specifically.
i went through J&J's military hiring pathway last fall. different recruiter, same loop structure roughly. one thing that helped me: they responded really well to operational examples with real stakes. my military background actually fit here better than it did at tech companies. the Credo stuff also mapped pretty naturally to mission/values language i was already comfortable with.