NXP Semiconductors Network Engineer interview experience

They had multiple choice questions so they could qualify me for an interview, and I found that frustrating because it didn’t resemble how real engineering work or troubleshooting feels.

The tone of the experience felt like it was optimizing for filtering rather than evaluating how I reason under pressure with actual problems. I remember thinking that multiple choice doesn’t capture the real-world debugging and design thinking you need at night when things break.

I didn’t receive an offer, and my reflection was blunt: I didn’t feel that the process used a format that matched what I’d