The initial interview took place at an on-campus career fair. This consisted of 4 behavioral questions and one technical question. The behavioral questions were based on prior experience. The technical question was an EE-related, basic analog problem; it was not difficult. Come prepared with your prior experiences in mind, including projects and previous work experience. They want to know how you have run into challenges and what you did to overcome them. They also asked about team-based projects and scenarios where conflict may arise and how you would deal with that.

The second interview was over the phone. I shared a technical presentation describing a previous project I had worked on. They want to see how you think and go about solving an issue. Throughout the presentation, they questioned me about the functionality of certain components in my project, so make sure you understand ideal textbook conditions for your work. These were not very difficult questions; they were mostly the basics. But make sure you don't talk about anything you don't know a lot about; really understand what you are presenting on.

During the presentation, they asked how an ideal op-amp worked, and what the input and output impedance was at the terminals. The second question was programming-related: given integers a and I, what is the difference between a = ++I and a = I++?