I interviewed at MathWorks (Natick, MA) in May 2011
Interview
Gave a talk and met with many people. Strangest issue was that MathWorks allows telecommuting no more than 3 days a year, and requires employees to be at the office from 10 to 4 on all the other 247 work days of the year. Also they don't generally allow people to work part-time. Overall, they have an unusually unfriendly set of policies for parents of school-age children.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were generally appropriate. The HR policies were the surprising things
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at MathWorks (Cambridge, England) in Oct 2024
Interview
Full day interview:
1) prepare a 45 minutes presentation about myself and focus on one relevant project I have been working on
2) series of 1:1 tech interview on different topics
Talk with manager
Talk with colledge.
coding like leetcode.
c++ knowledge
talk with HR and manager again.
talk with HR about offer and every detail
then accpte offer, you have three days to consider it.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at MathWorks in Dec 2022
Interview
The application process started with an initial call from the person leading the team I'd be deployed in. There were some technical questions C++, but the chat was mostly about the work they do and guageing my experience. Then there was an HR interview to check my right to work status, salary expectations, etc. Finally, there was a whole day on-site interview where I was asked to prepare a 45min presentation on a problem/project I've been involved in, highlighting the problem and how I ended executing the project. This was followed by around 4 hours of technical interviews from the team and another HR interview. The technical interviews weren't overly complicated and the discussions were pleasant enough. Final verdict is that the on-site was quite long and exhausting, but I had a good time overall. Having to prepare a 45min presentation was a bit annoying through.