Mechanical Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at ASM with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 38% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Mechanical Engineer roles take an average of 8 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at ASM overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at ASM as a Mechanical Engineer according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 19%
One on one interview: 19%
Skills test: 19%
Group panel interview: 12%
Presentation: 12%
Background check: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
Hr interview - technical interview with manager and team member. Questions on previous projects. Not too technical. For me the experience was really bad as questions were not related to the job description. I had a design related JD and questions were based on CFD and Thermal simulations.
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Describe your project and how you used CFS simulation.
It was a very detailed and technical panel round. With 4-5 members. Extremely rigorous and technical. They focused on fundamentals and would probe deep into every question/scenario. Make sure you are well versed with your core mechanical engineering concepts.
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Describe how you tackled a problem in the past? What concepts did you use? How did you go about it? In detail
Interview with HR about the role followed by an on site interview with two interviewers. Both lasted about half an hour. Questions were related to the role and about past work.
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Question 1
Questions about heat transfer. Motivation for wanting to do the role. Description of the process.
I applied online. I interviewed at ASM (Zoomvliet) in Jun 2025
Interview
They asked me to make a 15-minute presentation. First, they introduced themselves and asked me to introduce myself and then present my most recent 3 slides max presentation.
They asked questions completely from the slides about CFD - technical and non-technical, e.g. heat loss, CAD software I used, if some changes were made to the design..... However, rejected after the 3rd round.
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Question 1
CFD and CAD questions from design to heat loss, to explaining my objectives for the project, to what I know about the company