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      Test Engineer Interview

      Dec 16, 2009
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Fort Collins, CO
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Advanced Energy (Fort Collins, CO) in Oct 2009

      Interview

      First an HR rep. calls you and asks if he or she can schedule a phone interview between you and the relevent hiring manager. They asked that it be scheduled in the next few days. The morning of the phone interview, the HR rep called about 15 minutes before the scheduled time and told me the hiring manager was tied up and could he call me back later that day. During phone interview the hiring manager asked about past experience, skill sets, etc. A day or so after this interview, the HR person called back and asked if she could schedule another phone interview, this time with 3 engineers from the test group. They called right on time. Asked the typical questions, mostly technical questions related to the exact technology they were working on. Ex. Labview, RF impedence matching, s parameters, and use of the Smith chart. Also asked about experience doing gage R and R tests. Everyone from the company was very professional and friendly. During the interview, i stumbled on the smith chart and s parameter questions, but I explained I would need to go back and refresh, do to the number of years that had gone by since I'd used those.. Before I heard back from the company with their decision, I went back and refreshed my memory on the Smith and s params. It took a whole of about 30 minutes. I dropped a friendly email to the Hiring manager, thanking him for taking time to interview me and stating that I had taken the initiative to refresh on those 2 subjects. It didn't do any good. About a week later I got the boilerplate rejection email. My advice to other candidates would be to request an in person interview, as the phone interview process can cause miscommunication, and they don't give you a second chance. I have 30 years of hands on electrical / electronics experience, I even helped run the test department for a large company for 5 years in the late 1990's. I could have done the job they were hiring for in my sleep, but somehow was less than successful comunication that over the phone. Good luck.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      They asked for detailed knowledge of two port network s-parameters, and use of the Smith chart to do impedence matching
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      What is most important in determining the effectiveness and accuracy of a piece of test equipment? The answer they were looking for was:
      1 Answer
      1

      Other Test Engineer Interview Reviews for Advanced Energy

      Test Engineer - I Interview

      Feb 9, 2011
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Advanced Energy in Feb 2011

      Interview

      First there was a phone interview with the hiring manager. Second round had another phone interview with two engineers. One manager, and one senior engineer. And the third round was supposed to be an on-site interview.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Mainly based on the resume and project work. Complete resume review was conducted on the phone.
      1 Answer

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