I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at DEKA Research and Development (Manchester, NH) in May 2019
Interview
Round 1: HR Interview
Behavioral Questions, Software Concept related questions and a quick review of your resume
Round 2, 3, 4: Technical Interview with Engineers from the Control Team
Review of your resume. Technical Questions based on the information provided in your resume as well as the answers which you give during Resume review. Questions were straightforward and covered mostly the basics of Control Systems, Control System Modeling and Design concepts of Control Systems.
One of the interviewer was in a hurry to complete the interview and hardly cared answering the questions I asked about the company.
Onsite Interview: Panel Interview (4-5 interviewers from the Controls Team)
This panel interview will have questions related to your resume, Control Engineering, Physics puzzles and Software puzzles. This round also has a Whiteboard interviewing format, wherein you get to explain concepts / your answers on Whiteboard. The round wasn't hard, but was intimidating. Worst part about this round was, there were instances when all the interviewers would get busy reading something on their laptop for extended times and wouldn't listen to what I am explaining. I lost interest midway due to this attitude of the interviewers. They mocked me about the details I spoke while explaining some of the research projects of mine, when they had no clue about the specific research work and the domain I worked on. This I felt was very unprofessional. The main interviewer hardly made an attempt to answer some of the questions I asked about the company.
Overall experience wasn't great and I didn't worry much about the result of the interview. I was convinced that I wouldn't work for a company having seniors who hardly showed any interest in knowing about a newbie. I already had better offers in hand and didn't worry much about the outcome.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
* What is a PID Controller? Significance of each of its components. How would the system behave if PID was used when not needed?
* Spool of String physics puzzle
* Change in velocity with respect to time when a body goes downhill and climbs uphill.
* Feed-forward Control design advantage
* Root Locus significance. How do you arrive at Stability criteria based on Root Locus?
* Application of Kalman filters in Control Engineering
* Water Level Control: What would be your approach to design a controller for this system. They go on improvising the cases and add limitations. You are expected to optimize your approach each time
I interviewed at DEKA Research and Development (Manchester, NH)
Interview
This was a phone interview. It lasted 30 minutes. They asked me all the basic questions like tell me about yourself, pros/weaknesses, etc. As long as you practice the basics and can talk well about yourself you'll be fine.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself and how did you hear about us/ why are you interested in us?
I applied online. I interviewed at DEKA Research and Development (Manchester, NH) in Oct 2020
Interview
C++ coding questions, coordinate transformation, etc. The C++ standard used in the interview session is so old and outdated that I had to complain about the use of some language constructs.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coordinate transformation questions based on a typical robotic application
I applied online. I interviewed at DEKA Research and Development
Interview
Applied Online, There was a 30 min phone call from the Hiring manager. He asked about some basic questions in control system, physics puzzle, embedded systems. I went well. but after that I didn't hear for a month. After following up, I moved on.
They scheduled me on the week after. I flew to boston to attend the 45mins interview. Yes, freaking 1 hour onsite interview. why do they even call me, if they don't want to interview me. It is a waste of time on both sides. Out of 4 interviewers in the panel only Hiring Manger asked me questions related to my resume. I did decent. I don't know why I wasted a whole day to flying in and out to attend such disorganized interviews. Please respect candidates time, if you want to interview for 45 mins you could have done that via Skype. why wasting everyone's time.
Control Systems Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at DEKA Research and Development with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 30% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Control Systems Engineer roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 10 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at DEKA Research and Development overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at DEKA Research and Development as a Control Systems Engineer according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 24%
Presentation: 24%
Group panel interview: 16%
IQ intelligence test: 12%
One on one interview: 12%
Background check: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Skills test: 4%
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