I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Porsche (Stuttgart) in Dec 2017
Interview
Ich wurde nach Stuttgart eingeladet. Da hatte ich ein Vorstellungsgespräch mit zwei Personen der Abteilung. Sie waren ganz nett zu mir. Die Fragen waren nicht schlecht zu beantworte. Es waren Fragen zu meinem Lebenslauf und schließlich ein paar Fragen des Unternehmen.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Viele Frage zu meinem Lebenslauf
Warum haben sie sich bei Porsche beworben?
Was wissen sie über Porsche?
Wie viele Autos hat Porsche dieses Jahr in Deutschland verkauft?
I applied online. I interviewed at Porsche in Nov 2019
Interview
Application via their website. Received a phone call a few days later to invite me to an interview, which took place via Skype for Business as I am living abroad.
2 people in the interview (for me this were 2 young men that are working on the market they selected me for)
The interview took me 1h30min in total, we talked about several different Porsche related topics. Very friendly and had a really good interview experience.
Received a call 3 days later to let me know I was accepted for the internship position as marketing intern in their international sales department of the regional market.
TIP: prepare well and express why you want it to be Porshce, it makes you stand out
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Skype interview set-up:
- They give information about the market and department first
- First Pitch yourself: go over CV and talk about your interests and why Porsche - followed by Q&A
- Porsche general car types
- Zoom-in on some of the types, for me this was the Cayenne: What do you know about this car-model? E.g. SUV, year of introduction on the market, engine/model types (S, Turbo, Hybrid...), I mentioned some competitors too (e.g. Audi Q7 and BMW X5 for the Cayenne, but recently introduction of the Cayenne Coupé to compete against Audi Q8 and BMW X6)
- Market related topics
- Challenges faced: on a certain market (e.g. What main challenges would we face when entering Singapore with the new Taycan? What needs to be in place to do so?), within Porsche (2 main challenges: communication (different times all over the world, which needs flexibility in order to communicate with other countries) and transport of vehicles)
- We talked about the Taycan
- Sales: biggest markets, sales of car types: as we were talking about the Macan, they asked me the sales number of Macan in 2018, which was around 86.000 units.
- Time for Q&A from both sides and some practical information concerning the application process