AAVL·Software Engineer

AVL Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

GrazPosted May 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a sequence that started with a software-focused interview, then moved to a more technical discussion where they asked about what I’d done previously.

The last part was hands-on and genuinely technical in a different way: I used MATLAB for both coding and modeling.

The modeling work was specific and step-by-step. I had to extract dynamic equations for a rotating shaft, implement them in Simulink, and then analyze the resulting behavior. It wasn’t just writing code in isolation—it was about connecting the math to a model and then interpreting the outputs.

By the end of it, it felt difficult and very evaluation-heavy. I didn’t receive an offer, and the biggest reflection I had was that the final MATLAB task made the interview feel closer to

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