The interview process started with a referral to the hiring manager from a past pupil of my university who is working on the team I was applying for. The process took ten days from referral to offer and consisted of a phone screening and an in-person interview, which focused on both behavioral and technical aspects.

The face-to-face interview involved two managers and one other employee who works in the same department and was approximately an hour long. I was asked some behavioral questions and to explain one of my undergraduate projects.

The technical questions involved explaining how circuits with diodes work (I had to draw IV curves for the circuits), how logic gates are built with transistors, and how I would write a program to complete a simple task. The questions started simply and got progressively more difficult for each topic, but the purpose was to test my understanding of the topic as opposed to tricking or catching me out.

Overall, the interview process was fairly relaxed, and I got the impression that the interviewers wanted me to do well.

How did you deal with conflict in a group project?