I had an initial telephonic interview with HR to discuss my background, status, and the role description. She then asked me to send some code samples in C++ and MATLAB.

As soon as I sent them, I was scheduled for a technical round telephonic interview with a "desi" guy. Before the interview, he sent me a coding assignment in MATLAB, which I correctly solved the same day, as I have coded in MATLAB my entire life.

On the interview day, as expected from a "desi" interviewer, he was speaking fast, making it difficult to understand him. He kept asking "bookish" questions ("what is...") that he had prepared. I answered most of them, missing probably one or two. Alas, I am a bad candidate!

He told me that even though I knew most of the MATLAB and OOPS questions, because I missed one or two of those "bookish" questions, I was not good at MATLAB.

It looks like the Mathworks workplace consists of many similar "desi" people. They are looking for people just like them, which clearly I am not. I like to work in a creative and innovative environment, which I highly doubt this is.

This was my second interview with Mathworks. The same "desi" interviewer, "bookish" questions; miss one or two and you're done! Thanks, I will never apply here again!

What is Vectorization? Handle to graphics Nested function Take any functions and tell me 5 test cases you will test it Coder How to check the performance of a function in MATLAB Simulink questions Etc.

OOPS: Answered all questions. Same class, object, polymorphism, static method, abstract - same thing over and over!

I answered all questions in MATLAB except these:

What are persistent variables? (Missed) What is preallocation? What is a step case in Simulink? How to change the path of a variable? (I explained you can do it manually, but as usual, he was looking for that "term" - addpath() function, which I knew but couldn't recall.)