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Applications Support Engineer Interview Experience

April 4, 2013
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I dropped a resume at a university career fair and was contacted by HR.

The first phone call took about 30 minutes. It involved a few questions about projects I listed on my resume and also behavioral questions, like "How do you handle multiple tasks?"

At the end, we scheduled the second, technical phone interview.

The second phone interview was technical. I strongly suspect they have a pool of questions that is unchanged forever. The questions I was asked had almost all been mentioned by others in this forum, and I am sure that if you study the questions posted carefully, you can answer them 100% correctly.

At the end, he told me if they were still interested, they would contact me in two weeks; otherwise, there would be no contact.

I had the interview today and I don't know whether they are still interested in me. I was not fully prepared, but I was quite confident.

Questions

Some different questions:

  1. What's a cache miss and a cache hit?
  2. How to use finalized in Java.
  3. Difference between Foo A; and Foo A();.
  4. Some easy time complexity problems (Big O notation).

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 957 interview experiences for the MathWorks Applications Support Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

14%
Pass Rate

MathWorks's interview process for their Applications Support Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive47%
Neutral44%
Negative9%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for MathWorks's Applications Support Engineer interview process in United States.

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