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Applications Support Engineer Interview Experience - Natick, Massachusetts

April 1, 2018
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process consisted of the following stages:

  1. HireVue Screening
  2. Technical HackerRank challenge (answered 2 out of 4 questions)
  3. Phone Interview: 1-hour technical interview with live coding, covering HackerRank challenge answers and an Object-Oriented Design (OOD) problem.
  4. Phone Interview: 10-15 minute behavioral interview with the hiring manager.
  5. Onsite Interview: Two technical interviews, one behavioral interview with HR, lunch with current employees, and one behavioral interview with the hiring manager, totaling 5 hours.

The entire process took about a month and was very seamless. I was pleasantly surprised by how smooth the process was; someone from HR consistently kept in touch weekly. The campus is lovely. Although it's a corporate company, it strongly felt like a startup, with many young people present. Most individuals I met were very friendly.

Two days after my onsite interview (which was on a Friday), HR called to inform me that I would not be moving forward with an offer due to shortcomings in my technical interviews. Even though I was upset, I appreciated the timeliness of their response. Most companies do not even call to reject candidates, so I valued their thoughtfulness.

Questions

On-site technical interviews:

  1. Consisted of a probability question, stacks/queues, and a graph/recursion problem.
  2. Included an Object-Oriented Design (OOD) problem: design an elevator system for multiple buildings.

Behavioral interviews were standard STAR questions, as well as project-based and teamwork questions.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 170 interview experiences for the MathWorks Applications Support Engineer role in Natick, Massachusetts.

Success Rate

24%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive56%
Neutral30%
Negative14%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for MathWorks's Applications Support Engineer interview process in Natick, Massachusetts.