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      Research & Development Engineer Interview

      28 Apr 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      State College, PA

      Other Research & Development Engineer interview reviews for Penn State

      Research and Development Engineer Interview

      10 Jan 2017
      Anonymous employee
      State College, PA
      Accepted offer
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Penn State (State College, PA) in Apr 2023

      Interview

      Contacted by recruiter to schedule a virtual interview with a panel. Recruiter was pleasant but very misleading. Everyone on the panel gave a hard sell to work onsite in Pennsylvania. One person was sort of rude in the questions they asked, indicating they disliked me.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Q: What do you look for in your next role? Q: Are you willing to work onsite in Pennsylvania?
      Answer question
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Penn State (State College, PA) in Oct 2015

      Interview

      I applied online through their website. Heard back after a few weeks and schedule a phone interview which lasted about an hour and asked the usual questions about my skills and interests. They called back a couple weeks later to schedule an in-person interview. At the time I was 9 months pregnant and due any minute, and they were super flexible with scheduling the interview. I had the interview about a week after birth, and they broke up the day for me into 2-hour chunks so that I could go home and feed my baby in between interviews (I lived locally). I thought it was very thoughtful of them. The in-person interview was about 3-4 hours and had mostly the usual questions about my experience, skills, interests, examples of past projects, and some critical thinking "how would you approach this problem?" or "what would you do here?" type of questions. Not too difficult but made you show your thinking skills.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Explain how you would go about tackling this problem. What are things you need to consider?
      1 Answer