I applied through a University Career Fair and then online. After the first week, I received an HR phone interview.

Questions asked:

• Describe yourself.
• How does your background make you a suitable candidate?
• Visa status and date of graduation.
• What languages are you comfortable with?
• What do you know about the role?
• Why MathWorks?
• What would you like to work on in the future (e.g., internal tools, MATLAB, etc.)?

After this, I received an email to complete a HackerRank test within 7 days.

I selected Java and Python out of 5 languages. The maths section is important.

Maths (5-6 questions, 15-20 minutes):

1. Flipping cards probability.
2. Ant collision probability.
3. Number of matches in a knockout tournament.
4. Probability of dropping a packet when going from one street to another.

Java (30 minutes):

2 coding questions:

1. Stack parenthesis balancing.
2. A recursion problem.

MCQs:

1. On synchronized blocks and efficiency of two functions.
2. JVM garbage collector.

Python:

2 coding questions:

1. A trick math sort of question.

MCQ:

1. On inheritance.
2. Super keyword.

I am now waiting for the results.

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