Development Test Engineer Interview Experience - Redmond, Washington
Process
This was just the first-round phone interview. It was only 30 minutes long and pretty much just a get-to-know-you call with a couple of technical questions at the end.
Questions
If you had a beam that was mounted to a wall, and you placed a force at the end of the beam, where is the beam most likely to break?
If that same beam had a weight added to it, and that weight was lifted and dropped back onto the beam, describe the energy transfer throughout the beam.
If you had a plate of aluminum that was bonded to a plate of steel, and this assembly was heated up, which material would be in tension?
If the same beam from the first question had a longer length, how would that affect the force felt at the base of the beam? What if the diameter got bigger?
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