I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at MathWorks (Bengaluru) in Mar 2019
Interview
They have a well defined recruiting processes for filtering and hiring the right candidates. I was interviewed at Bangalore. Since I was in Bangalore for only a few days, they were supportive and speeded up the process.
After a brief phone call with the hiring manager about what the role was about and what the expectations from me were, I was asked to appear for an online coding interview round with one of the team members. After this round, a HR person spoke to me about MathWorks and gave an overall view about the company and asked me quite a few questions about my motivation to move back to Bangalore. I was then invited to their location, where I was asked to give a presentation about myself and one of the projects that I had led. There was a HR F2F round after this, followed by three technical rounds back to back, with the last one being a live coding Skype session with one of the team members in the US. I then had to talk with two product managers from the US as I was being considered for multiple open positions on their side.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement your own C++ shared pointer, standard virtual table implementation in C++, explicit and partial template specialization in C++, tree traversals, heap sort algorithm, recursive string manipulation, standard design patterns
Technical coding assessment given on online platform. Plenty of time for assessment, easy and medium difficulty questions. A series of questions about my experience for which I recorded a video response
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you have any experience with object oriented programming languages
Multiple coding assessments online, with browser use monitored to prevent cheating. The online environment had no linting or suggestions, so you need to know the correct syntax and function names for your selected programming language
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Generally was string handling and mathematical puzzles they had contrived.
The interview process included an initial HireVue behavioural assessment, followed by a timed technical test with algorithmic questions. After that, I had a interview where I walked through my CV and answered scenario-based questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
“Can you walk me through your CV and highlight the most relevant projects?”
“Why are you interested in joining our organisation and this role specifically?”
“Describe a time you made a mistake at work. What did you learn from it?”
“What technical challenges have you faced recently, and how did you solve them?”
“How do you usually gather and validate requirements from stakeholders?”
