This review is for the data center team's Mechanical Engineer role. I interviewed with someone located in Austin, Texas.

I want to describe this extremely negative and frustratingly random interview as a pure waste of my time. Never have I been so technically prepared for an interview, only to be rejected by an interview that asked basically nothing.

The interviewer clearly has been pigeonholed his entire career and has zero idea of the type of challenges we solve in Aerospace. The person calls himself a mechanical engineer and showed zero intuition when I described the challenges I solve for dynamic environments. He didn’t even know how modal analysis works.

When he asked basic questions like design rules for injection molding, he would not wait for me to finish my answer before interrupting.

Other random questions consisted of:

• Whether I have done system engineering. No. Someone experienced in design and analysis won't be an expert in systems engineering. If you want someone who does system engineering, please list the role as "Systems Engineering" and find candidates accordingly.
• Whether I have done sheet metal made of steel. No. We do not put giant steel panels on satellites. And if that is shocking to you, you should not be interviewing candidates.

List design rules for:

• CNC machining
• Injection molding
• Sheet metal bending
• etc.