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Applications Support Engineer Interview Experience

October 1, 2013
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The HR video interview is conducted first. This interview involves prerecorded behavioral questions to which you have one to two minutes to respond and record a video response.

If I recall correctly, one of the questions asked about a situation where you had to balance multiple projects or deal with adversity and how you handled it (I don't remember the exact wording, but it was something along those lines).

After you complete the HR interview and pass, you will have to take an approximately hour-long technical interview. You pick two programming languages (I picked MATLAB and C++) and are interviewed by a MathWorks engineer.

My one regret was not reviewing the questions beforehand on Glassdoor. I thought the interview overall went pretty well, but there was one segment where I performed poorly. The interviewer asked about virtual constructors and virtual destructors, which I had no knowledge of.

If I could do it over, I would have probably picked C instead and studied the questions on Glassdoor more thoroughly. I believe the questions are set up so that they expect you to get basically all of them correct.

Questions

Question on C++ involving virtual constructors and destructors.

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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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