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Applications Support Engineer Interview Experience - Los Angeles, California

March 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process includes a standard HR video interview followed by a technical phone interview.

The HR interview is the same as mentioned on Glassdoor.

The technical phone interview is similar to other questions mentioned on Glassdoor, with some new ones.

I am waiting for a response on the technical interview.

Questions

---DSP

  • What is PSD and what is its relationship with autocorrelation?
  • Given h[n] = [1,2,3,4,5] with an input frequency of 100 Hz and an LTI system, what is the output frequency?
  • With the same input frequency, and now h[n] = [1,4,9,16,25], what is the output frequency? I answered it and was asked how.
  • What is the relationship between bandwidth and time duration?
  • Given a signal spectrum that is valid in the range of -pi/2 to pi/2, what is the range of frequency when the signal is oversampled by a factor of 4?
  • What is the relationship between the Discrete Fourier Transform and the Z-transform?
  • Given y[n] = x[n^2], is the system stable? Causal? Linear? I answered it and was asked how.

---C++

  • What is a virtual constructor?
  • What is a virtual function?
  • Given a code with a destructor, what is the output?
  • Can you define a function in a C++ struct?
  • What is the default access type of a C++ struct?
  • How do you concatenate two strings?

---Matlab

  • Matlab code to clear workspace variables.
  • There are 100 variables in the workspace. How to delete all variables except 2?
  • Matlab code for matrix concatenation.
  • What does the '@' symbol mean in Matlab and where is it used?
  • Difference between a cell array and a struct in Matlab.

---Math

  • Given a differential equation, what are its degree and order?
  • Given a matrix, what are its eigenvalues and eigenvectors?

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Interview Statistics

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Success Rate

16%
Pass Rate

MathWorks's interview process for their Applications Support Engineer roles in Los Angeles, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

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Negative5%

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