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Field Service Engineer at Agilent Technologies

No Offer – Reviewed May 21, 2013 New

Interview Details – Had a phone interview after a few months after applying online. Did not get any contact afterwards.

Interview Question – behavior questions mostly   Answer Question

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Applications Engineer at Agilent Technologies

No Offer – Reviewed May 15, 2013 New

Interview Details – 5 steps

Interview Question – How long you will stay   Answer Question

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Product Engineer at Agilent Technologies

Declined Offer – Interviewed in Santa Rosa, CA Apr 2013 – Reviewed May 8, 2013

Interview Details – Applied online, contacted for phone interview within 2 weeks. Phone interview with technical lead for Product Engineering Group consisted of discussion of position/company, review of my resume content, and very basic electrical engineering questions such as frequency response of capacitors.

Received invitation for on-site interview 1.5 weeks after phone interview. On-site interview (Santa Rosa) was a day-long process, meeting with a number of different people. Most 1:1's were soft/non-technical, a few involved more technical questions.

Interview Question – Given a circuit schematic of one of their switches, talk through troubleshooting approach after report of switch failure.   Answer Question

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Front End Engineer at Agilent Technologies

Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 7, 2013

Interview Details – Hiring process is pretty straight forward. One phone screen and you will be then up for on site interview

Interview Question – Tell me 10 ways to hide a HTML element from the browser?   Answer Question

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Applications Chemist at Agilent Technologies

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2013 – Reviewed May 6, 2013

Interview Details – The hiring and interview process was exceptional. They had all of there bases covered and had everything planned out. They were very welcoming and willing to sit down, take time out of their day and talk with the interview candidate.
The interview lasted the full day, but the candidate needs that time to talk to each group member.

Interview Question – Ability to draw instrumental parts.   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – There wasn't a negotiation phase.

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Intern at Agilent Technologies

No Offer – Interviewed in Budd Lake, NJ Feb 2013 – Reviewed Apr 22, 2013

Interview Details – Interview set up via campus website. Met one-to-one with one of their employees, asked me questions ranging from hardware to software, pretty much based on everything on my resume.

Interview Question – Explain how a diode works.   Answer Question

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Software Engineer-Intern at Agilent Technologies

No Offer – Interviewed in Wilmington, DE Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 18, 2013

Interview Details – Applied through website and heard back about two weeks later for a phone interview. The interview was basically just going into more depth about the projects that I had listed on my resume. They asked about specific classes and some of my extracurricular activities. Originally, there was supposed to be three short interviews, but was then narrowed down to one interview.

Interview Question – I was asked about a container that I had used on a project from 2 years ago   Answer Question

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Software Engineer Intern at Agilent Technologies

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Wilmington, DE – Reviewed Mar 2, 2013

Interview Details – Initial Phone Interview, then onsite 3 round interview. Phone interview mostly on resume, past projects. Called after 15 days for the onsite. Onsite interview consists of behavioral ques, design and coding question.
Behavioral ques - Most challenging project, how did you meet deadline for multiple projects
Coding ques - Given a source code, find what is the expected output. Code had try, catch, finally block.
Design ques - Design an imaginary television, what other features you would like to include?
Overall nice experience.

Interview Question – Design a distributed museum where you need to ensure that information is available at each branch. How can you design the web pages so that each page content is different for each country and language?   View Answer

Negotiation Details – Accepted offer as it was a good one.

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Intern at Agilent Technologies

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA – Reviewed Feb 27, 2013

Interview Details – Very nice interview process. Interviewers are glad to share and build up rapport quickly with interviewee.

Interview Question – Tell me a high level accrual entry   Answer Question

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Manufacturing Engineer at Agilent Technologies

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Wilmington, DE – Reviewed Jan 21, 2013

Interview Details – Panel interviews consisting of behavioral interviewing

Interview Question – Solving transductance equations   Answer Question

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