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Updated Feb 18, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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ELP Engineer at National Instruments
Posted Feb 18, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Austin, TX (took a day)
Met the recruiters at a career fair. Was called the next day about an on campus interview. The interview was more relaxed than some and was very technical.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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ELP Engineer at National Instruments
Posted Feb 12, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Austin, TX (took a day)
On campus interview which I got through the university job fair. It was broken into two parts. First part was filled with typical behavioral interview questions and lasted approximately 20 minutes. Second part was a "technical section" which had two questions. You were not asked to solve a differential equation or anything like that, but it did require some basic computer knowledge as well as knowledge of your discipline (Mechanical Engineering for my interview). Advice I would offer is to just be yourself and answer truthfully and there really is no way to "study" for the technical section.
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ELP Engineer at National Instruments
Posted Jan 30, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Austin, TX (took 2 days)
After getting selected for an interview on campus, I interviewed with a current ELP Engineer. The interview consisted of your standard behavioral and historical questions as well as some technical questions. The interviewer was very professional and friendly. It was a very pleasant interview.
A couple of weeks later, I got an email saying that I was selected for a headquarter visit and a final round interview. This was located in Austin, TX. The actual interview was on a Friday, but they paid for a hotel up until Sunday morning so that the candidates can get a feel for Austin. They also took us out that Friday night and Saturday night to a dinner and then some bars.
On the day of the interview, all of the candidates got there early in the morning and had breakfast with our hosts while we listened to a presentation about the company. Then the interviews began.
There were 5 interviews, each with someone else, as well as a technical presentation. There was a historical, behavioral, technical, and 2 others based on the departments you were interested in. There was also a 10 minute technical presentation.
The behavioral interview was the standard "tell me about a time you..." interview questions. The historical interview was mostly about what my expectations were and what I was looking for in a job offer (salary, benefits, growth, culture, etc.). The technical interview was not as hard as I was expecting, and was about automation. The technical presentation is just about how you can communicate to an audience a technical subject. They don't really care what the subject is, as long as it is technical.
The company culture was great. It was very laid back and casual, and you would be working on very interesting problems.
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Reason for Declining
The start date would have been over 6 months after I graduated, and there was no way it would move up by much. Since I had an offer from another company (although, it was in a completely different industry) with a start date that would work for me, I chose to accept that.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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ELP Engineer at National Instruments
Posted Jan 16, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Austin, TX (took 4 weeks)
After attending a presentation by NI on campus, I applied online and was called to setup an interview the following week on campus. This initial interview was pretty basic involving both technical and behavioral questions and given by one NI manager and a shadower. I was then flown to Austin, TX for two days to continue the interview process. The first day was very organized consisting of five interviews in total: 1. A generic behavioral interview 2. technical interview which was more concerned with your thought process than prior technical knowledge 3. historical interview asking about salary and location preferences, along with two special interview picked by the candidate in Marketing, Sales, R&D, or System Support. The second day involved meeting other candidates and seeing the area. I really enjoyed meeting the NI team and the entire process was very well organized and moved smoothly.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.
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ELP Engineer at National Instruments
Posted Nov 15, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 3 days)
The Interviewers are nice and friendly. The technical interviewers help you along if you get stuck on a problem.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.
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ELP Engineer at National Instruments
Posted Mar 5, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Austin, TX (took a day)
I applied online through my university career assistance center. The interview had to be rescheduled on the phone, but this was not a problem; they made it very simple and worked well with my schedule. This was only the first interview in the process (there is one on my school's campus, then the next is on the NI campus). The interviewer was really nice and calm. I would advise all interviewees to be nice and calm, too!
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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ELP Engineer at National Instruments
Posted Feb 16, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 in Austin, TX (took 3 months)
I met NI at the career fair, but was out of town for their on campus interviews. So, I started with a phone interview that lasted a little over 1/2 an hour and used an interactive internet site so the interviewer could see what I was drawing/typing. That interview was half behavioral and half technical, but nothing was too hard it was more about my thought process.
About two weeks later, I heard back and had been accepted for an on site interview. They had several dates to choose from, but because of my schedule I had to wait about 2 months. Once on site, NI did a fantastic job of showcasing Austin. The hotel was nice, and there were plenty of fun activities planned for the whole weekend. For the actual interview day, it was a full day on site. There was a behavioral, technical, historian (like the typical HR interview only more involved), and two interviews based on the departments you chose, and finally a 10 minute technical presentation. Though the process was long, it was worth it and they interview a lot of great candidates. I heard back within the promised 2-4 weeks with an offer, and I know people that got declined also heard back.
All in all, the interview process is a really great framework to understand what you will be doing, and I don't feel that there will be any surprises when I start.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.
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ELP Engineer at National Instruments
Posted Oct 31, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in Austin, TX (took a day)
I got the interview opportunity during career fair for the ELP program. The first round interview was hold the next day for 15 minutes. Only two questions were asked. One technical question regarding ADC and one behavioral question. The interviewers were really friendly and tried to lead me to the answers.
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ELP Engineer at National Instruments
Posted Oct 26, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in Austin, TX (took a day)
I got the interview by attending a career fair and giving the representative my resume. The interview was one on one and lasted for about an hour. The questions were broken up into four behavioral questions and then two technical questions. The behavioral questions were standard “How did you handle this situation?” questions. The technical questions were geared more to see how you think more than what you know.
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ELP Engineer at National Instruments
Posted Oct 11, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 (took 3 weeks)
the interview was pretty chill, they asked some hardware and software questions such as: 1 dimensional arrays and the hardware question was on how to design a heat detector using analog to digital circuit and filters, as well as come basic C coding, and asked questions about the resolution then it was done
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