MathWorks Software Development Intern interview questions
Updated Dec 25, 2021
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Software Development Intern applicants have rated the interview process at MathWorks with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Intern roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at MathWorks overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at MathWorks as a Software Development Intern according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Background check: 25%
Skills test: 25%
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The interview was challenging involving the team leaders & the manager in individual sessions & then a group session with everyone involved including a current graduate who took turns to ask interesting questions.
As well as two average algorithm questions, the technical interview also asked three easy math questions. One commonsense question, one permutation question and one calculus. One of the coding questions was the classic fibbonacci sequence.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write an algorithm for generating the Fibonacci sequence and how would you optimise it.
Broadly speaking, it consisted of a non-technical stage and a technical stage, all conducted via phone.
Non-technical stage included a chat with the equivalent of HR, finding out more about you and vice versa.
Technical stage was with a member of the team I would be joining, which was to find out more about my technical background. This included technical questions relevant to the work I'd be doing, in my case describing the inner workings of a particular process in detail.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe the steps in a typical gradient descent loop