I had a chat with the Mathworks representative at the career fair on campus and got an interview the next day.

The first interview consisted of standard behavioral questions:

• Describe yourself
• Describe your projects
• Why Mathworks
• Multiple deadlines
• Which tools for time management
• Resolving conflicts

A technical interview was held two weeks later. It was an on-campus, one-on-one interview that lasted for two and a half hours. Basically, the questions covered EVERYTHING in the basics, so you really need to have a solid foundation.

Most of the questions were very trivial (e.g., what is differentiation, rank of a matrix), so it was a tough test. This is because you cannot miss AT ALL (unfortunately, I did).

If you do not know the exact answer, try to show your solution step-by-step in front of your interviewer. If you cannot remember a specific command in MATLAB, you can write "pseudocode" to potentially win partial credit.

I am still waiting for the result regarding the next step.

In addition to the questions posted in this forum:

Math: (elementary)

• Partial fraction expansion
• Solve an ODE

Programming: (everything... C/C++/Java)

• Global and local scope
• What are Generics in Java?
• What are JDK and JRE?
• Nested try blocks
• Tricky things about String and StringBuffer

MATLAB: (most tricky part, really unpredictable)

• Change the color of a data line in the figure using code

• MATLAB Profiler

• Debug using code (dbstop)

• Advantages of preallocation using zeros(n,1)

• Does this code work:

  A = 0; for k = 0:10 A(k) = i * i; end disp(double(A))

  Fix it and then give the output.

Control Theory: (pretty elementary)

• Phase compensators
• Why poles in OLHCP make a system unstable
• IRC circuit to ODE