After submitting my resume at a university recruiting event (both in-person and online), I didn’t hear anything for months. Eventually I got an email requesting an interview roughly four months later, and the timeline from there felt intense enough to count as difficult for me. I ended up with four total interviews that were all distinct in who I met and what they focused on.
First, I spoke with the hiring manager over the phone. Then there was another phone conversation with a subject-matter expert. After that, I did two in-person rounds: one with value stream managers and another that included HR along with manufacturing engineers. Because there were so many layers and so many different perspectives, the process felt thorough and detailed rather than quick or casual.
> 1 year
Average Positive United States
I got notified a couple of months after applying that they wanted to schedule a longer interview, about two and a half hours total. The format was split into a technical segment followed by behavioral questioning, and it was very clear what they expected from each part. During the technical interview, multiple interviewers focused on my control systems background, mainly looking for relevant experience rather than trick questions. After that, the second hour shifted to standard behavioral topics.
In my final round, the company’s approach felt more “process-driven” than purely hands-on technical evaluation. The questions stayed within those two lanes—technical experience first, then behavior—without unexpectedly mixing them. There were no surprises in the sense of random topics; it was more about whether my background mapped to what they needed.
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