The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at ASM in Dec 2023
Interview
It was quite a long process to be honest. It started with the recruiter reaching out to me on LinkedIn and having a 30 minute call with me the next day. So far so good. Next I waited for about 10 days to hear what are the next steps. A little bit too long in my opinion. I spoke with one of the technical managers for one hour on Teams which went well, but then the next interview with the next technical manager (which also took a long time to have feedback) was almost a copy paste of the first interview, same questions, same format. I had to wait another 10 days just to have the feedback that they were proceeding with other candidates. The HR recruiter was nice and professional and she always responded quickly when I followed up, but it seems the technical managers take a long time to make decisions which made me less enthousiast about the role and working for the company. Its a shame cause overall its a neat company with great products.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you know about ASM? Why do you want to work for us?
It was a very detailed and technical panel round. With 4-5 members. Extremely rigorous and technical. They focused on fundamentals and would probe deep into every question/scenario. Make sure you are well versed with your core mechanical engineering concepts.
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Question 1
Describe how you tackled a problem in the past? What concepts did you use? How did you go about it? In detail
Interview with HR about the role followed by an on site interview with two interviewers. Both lasted about half an hour. Questions were related to the role and about past work.
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Question 1
Questions about heat transfer. Motivation for wanting to do the role. Description of the process.
I applied online. I interviewed at ASM (Zoomvliet) in Jun 2025
Interview
They asked me to make a 15-minute presentation. First, they introduced themselves and asked me to introduce myself and then present my most recent 3 slides max presentation.
They asked questions completely from the slides about CFD - technical and non-technical, e.g. heat loss, CAD software I used, if some changes were made to the design..... However, rejected after the 3rd round.
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Question 1
CFD and CAD questions from design to heat loss, to explaining my objectives for the project, to what I know about the company