I was contacted by a recruiter who met me at a career fair for my university. They were interested in receiving an application from me, so I decided to apply.

About a month after I sent in my resume, they contacted me and said they would like to set up a phone interview. The phone interview was pretty great – the lady interviewing me was extremely friendly and calmed my nerves. I usually do terribly on phone interviews because phone conversations make me nervous (I have no idea why).

I did pretty badly and only got to the second interview question out of three. I later found out from talking to her on the onsite interview day that she had three questions to ask me, and the first two were just warm-ups. However, she liked my personality and said I walked her through my thought process very well.

A few weeks later, I was told that I had been invited for a series of on-site interviews (five). The first interview went badly as I was very nervous, but the last four went very well.

About two weeks later, I was contacted one final time and notified they would not be extending me an offer.

I had no time to prepare or study anything for either the phone or the on-site interviews due to a heavy course load (around 70 hours of homework a week), so I feel I did well considering. If I had time to prepare and study, I feel confident I would have gotten the position.

Overall, the experience was very positive. They communicated very clearly at all times, and everyone involved in the entire process was extremely professional and friendly.

All questions were fairly equal in difficulty. I managed to just finish solving them right as the interview with each person ended.