Initial screening call - with HR
Phone technical interview - with hiring manager
Panel technical interview
Be sure to have strong technical answers to whatever you have written in your resume.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cummins (Gainesville, FL) in Oct 2013
Interview
1. Talked to a recruiter on university's career showcase and was asked to apply online. Received a phone call right after the showcase to schedule an on-campus interview.
2. Had behavior interview on campus. It should be a 2:1 interview, one HR and one engineer. But I was interviewed only by the engineer because the HR went for lunch.
Lasted for 45 mins.
3. Got an email to schedule a phone interview two weeks after the on-campus interview. Interviewed by a control engineer. He tried to get me relaxed by talking about my interests, hobbies for the first several minutes. Then followed by some technical questions. The interviewee tried to dig deep into my answer until I was unable to explain any more.
Lasted for about 1 hour.
4. Received a phone call from Columbus, IN requiring for some personal information. Then contacted the next day providing me two positions to choose from.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some of the behavioral questions were about:
1) brief self-introduction
2) Explain each experience listed on resume.
3) What if you give you customer wrong information.
4) Handle with several projects at the same time.
4) Have different opinions with your leader.
5) Conflicts with team members/colleagues.
Some of the technical questions were about:
1) What's the difference between classic control and modern control.
2) What's the condition for a system to be stable. What will happen if it gets unstable.
3) Give a rough design of a cruise control system.
4) What is a vector table in microcontroller programming?
5) How does an interrupt work.
6) Describe the way a sensor works in your project.
Interview process is typical of employers within the industry. It involved 2 separate interviews, one 30 min meeting with a recruiter and another longer 1 hour meeting with the team leader.
Relatively simple. Talked about my experience and various scenarios that may come up in real life. Be through with the basics of controls theory and your projects and you should have a good chance of acing the interview
