DRS Technologies Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Phone Screening Only - No respect when you asked question back to him. It is totally ridiculous with manager.

Interview Details – Had me in for two interviews and met with everyone and their brother. Thought the interview went well and was told that they would let me know within a week one way or another. Heard nothing. I am presently employed and took time off to meet them twice. No courtesy.

Interview Details – Interviewed by numerous people, mostly 1-on-1, sequentially. Good mix of jobs & levels, engineers & managers. Mostly they told me about DRS; little real interviewing me. Hiring manager interviewed last. May have been better if he had at least met me in the beginning to give me an intro.

Negotiation Details – Quite a bit of back and forth. I wanted more salary & vacation. Got more salary & signing bonus, with relocation paid, but not more vacation.

Interview Details – Recruiter came to my school's career fair and I handed him my resume. I got a call from HR saying they would like me to come for on-site interview. I had a tour of the building before my first interview with hiring manager. I had 4 one-on-one interviews which lasted about 2 and half hours. They all asked about experiences I put on my resume. One of the interviewers asked technical questions based on one of my experiences. He drew a block diagram of antenna, filter, mixer, oscillator, ADC etc and asked me which of the blocks I would like to talk about. I chose the mixer and he proceeded to ask questions about signal and system theory. For example what is sine function in frequency domain, what happens when you mix signals, convolution, Nyquist limit etc. I was taken aback for a sec, but he was very patient with me and helped me work it out. I completely did not expect that. I felt really tired after the interview; it was a long day. I am supposed to hear back in a couple of days if I make it to the second round.

Interview Details – I sent my resume to a friend at the company, was interviewed and told I had a job the same day. They only had to get the paperwork together as the hiring manager had not planned on hiring anyone at the time. Took about a week to have a job offer in hand...

Negotiation Details – I'll give you two years at that salary and normal increases and we'll see how it goes. (I worked very hard and was rewarded with appropriate compensation following the two years.) Basically, if you are honest with this company, they will treat you right!

Interview Details – Took the interview after a cold call from a recruiter. The HR team was communicative and did a good job with the arrangements (flights, hotel, rental car). It was a 1:1 format in 45 minute to 1 hour sessions with each interviewer, 6-7 total. I had a great experience with the hiring manager and his supervisor, but two things became rapidly apparent: 1) the company was in a serious bind with some detailed engineering work and really needed another FPGA designer, not a systems engineer, and 2) there was a strong difference of opinion between the hiring manager and his boss, who came from outside the company and wanted to institute more systems architecture thinking and process, and the "old guard" at the company that didn't see the value in those areas. I didn't receive an offer but wouldn't have accepted regardless after seeing the internal strife.

Interview Details – After submitting my resume to their careers website and emailing directly to HR (curiously you need to do both). they emailed me about a month later to set up a phone interview. The phone interview lasted about 15 minutes and was very easy. No difficult questions, just a quick review of my resume and discussion about what the company does. They rely heavily on internal recommendations (I had a couple of them) and I was told that they unless I did something really stupid, the job was mine. About a week after the phone interview, I went in for face to face interviews. The questions were very softball, hardly any of the standard "Tell me about a time when you..." type questions. I interviewed with a quality engineer, his boss and the director of the department. They were all very nice people and really interested in learning more about you, not grilling you by asking you question after question in a formal manner. The atmosphere was very relaxed and the workers seemed similarly relaxed. The face to face interview lasted about 2.5 hours.

Reason for Declining – I received another offer that I could not pass up.

Interview Details – I went through about 3 different form of interviews. I first spoke with HR in a behavioral interview over the phone. The second interview was a technical phone interview with the software leads. Having passed the first to interviews I went to an in-house interview to meet with the lead software engineers in a personality and technical interview.

Interview Details – Very low key and focused on their company. The interviewer was looking to hire for a time too far in the future for it to be applicable. Overall interesting company and a friendly interview. Good to go with a specific position in mind and be pro-active in pursuing a position.