Mathworks sends a system-generated email to all applicants for this program. One test is HackerRank, which has two parts: math questions and two coding questions. One coding question was very easy, and the other was dynamic programming-based.

The second test was sent through HireVue, which had three questions, and one had to record responses to them. They do give two attempts to answer.

After this, within two days, I received an email to schedule an interview, which was a technical phone screen.

The interviewer called me, and we went through the DP problem that came up in my test.

After that, they gave me a pretty tough problem for which I was able to come up with a naive solution, but that didn't pass all test cases (TLE). The interviewer didn't help me at all in pointing me in the right direction, which usually other interviewers do.

I was disappointed by this experience because a technical interview is tough, and interviewers need to be a tad helpful to an already nervous candidate.

Q: Distinct ways of selecting a team. (PnC problem)

Q: DP problem to find the total subsequences in a large string given a smaller string.