Interview Update:
I was invited to return in late Oct to their second round interviews. They provided flight and hotel. The process took two days. First day, dinner with some of the younger field engineer types and HR manager with all the other candidates (6 of us). We were given an agenda for the next day's activities, which consisted of a round-robin like interview process. We each interviewed with 5 people, each interview took 30 mins. All of the interviewers were PMs or Senior PMs, and all were very nice, almost overly nice.
The interviews went quite quick, (wear a suit), They had questions that they were supposed to ask, most didn't really follow the scripted questions (one did).
It was more of get to know your personality and see if you will fit with the culture type of interview. There were lots of young people (35 and below) at the main office, lots.
Typical questions were:
What do you know about Turner?
What type of job do you see yourself performing with Turner?
Why Turner?
Each interviewer asked me one behavior question and each question was different.
As always the behavior questions are the most difficult, but they are typical questions that you can find some decent answers via google.
Advice:
Smile, be happy, they love it
Don't be overly happy, they don't love it
Be casual and sociable.
Be novel and smart, not overly trying to prove how much you know. You'll end up showing how much you do not know, and that's bad. (one such candidate was like this during our interviews, smart cute rich sorority girl)
Market your personality strengths
Speak clearly
Don't be nervous, no need, everyone is nice
Ask questions, it displays interest, but don't be obnoxious (sorority girl - just think legally blond, lol)
After the 2nd round interviews
We were told that we would have to wait for the results up to a month and not to get nervous if you didn't hear anything for a while. They said if they knew they were not going to select you then you might hear from them sooner, so no news was better than bad quick news.
It took a month to hear back from Turner and in this economy it is very difficult to not get nervous.
They offered me a position last week.
Wasn't the best salary offer by far (benefits better than most), but the overall package and the type of people/environment that Turner seems to offer led me to accept the offer.
So, I'm a field engineer at Turner now. And I'm excited to get to work.
Feel free to ask questions.