I was able to talk with a hiring manager, which was great. However, the first thing I was told was that the interviewer had not had time to go through my resume or LinkedIn previously. I could tell from this that I was not going to get a very personal interview.

He asked me to talk about my resume, since he hadn't read it, and so I had an opportunity to discuss myself a bit, which is always good. But after that, there were a lot of very uninteresting, pre-canned questions that were read from a list.

These were very basic things that appeared on every aerospace engineer's homework assignments at one time or another. I did okay with some of them, but was somewhat bewildered by the unimportance of the questions.

What is the best cross-sectional shape to take bending?