I had three rounds of interviews.

First, a video conference with the team lead covered a basic introduction of the candidate, company, and the interview process.

Second, a 1-hour written test was administered, with questions emailed. The questions were very interesting and moderately technical, focusing on topics a crash engineer would resolve daily. Most of the questions were highly related to the underlying theory in physics, mechanics of materials, and structural dynamics.

Third, I interviewed with a material modeler, delving deep into material behaviors, material data, its role in an FEA model, failure theories, etc.

Overall, the interview process was one of the most technical I have encountered, but at the same time, very interesting.

The interviewer showed me a 3x3 matrix of a stress element and asked which index of the matrix I would pay attention to for the failure of a thermoplastic versus a brittle metal.