Hi all,
I have been doing contract design work for a *really* small start-up firm since I graduated last year. The job is ending, because the firm is running out of capital (which sucks, b/c they could be a great company, but this is a familiar tune I know).
I now have an opportunity to interview with a large company for their R&D dept for what *could* be my dream job, in the field that most interests me. This is a large, old, venerable tech. co that we all recognise as one of the first- it was started way back in the 40's actually.
I feel confident that since they have called me back for a second interview that they are sincerely interested in me. However, I've been told that the interview will contain a lot of "technical" questions though they will mostly be "general, like sophomore and junior level engineering and physics".
Well, that covers a LOT. I don't know what to review! I am confident in my engineering abilities, but I also know that for some areas (structural statics, for instance, or circuit theory, or rotational dynamics) I would surely have to look up formulas and equations. For this position, I know they will ask about my heat transfer, fluid mechanics and microfluidics knowledge, and that's fine. But I really don't know what sort of things they will ask, or if I'll be required to solve numerical problems on paper, for example, or if they just want to see my problem-solving ability.
If any of you have had interviews of this sort, (companies like HP, Intel, MS, etc do these apparently) can someone give me a bit of a heads-up for what to expect? I have confidence in myself for the HR part of the interview, as I am well-spoken and have experience with people and problem-solving. I just don't like going into something as blind as I feel I am doing with this spectre of "technical" questions that could conceivably cover my entire soph and JR years of college.
TIA, if anyone's been there! regards, k wallace