I applied in-person. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Rohde & Schwarz (Munich, Bavaria) in Mar 2025
Interview
1st interview with the recruiter and the hiring manager. Lot's of questions about previous projects, experiences, how I function as a engineer within a team.
2nd Interview centered around a very extensive case study, you present and then technical questions are asked.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you want your future hiring manager to act?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Rohde & Schwarz (Bucharest, Bucuresti) in Dec 2025
Interview
First call from HR after applying also meant the first interview which was short and questions were not challenging. Second interview was also the last one and consisted of the technical written assessment and technical discussion based on experience and also technical questions. It was a long interview with 2 future colleagues that were quite helpful. Also, written interview consisted of 4 parts: Linux, Networking, Voip and SQL.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Written interview:
Linux:
What is LILO?
display status of resources
copy files between 2 machines
find a running process called 123
set a created file to be executable
Networking:
describe OSI and name levels
what is ssh and what port does it use
what device do you use to create VLANs
Voip:
What is SIP in Voip?
SQL:
queries and you should give the result
Verbal interview:
What port does NTP use?
What port does SNMP use?
What Linux distribution did you use in your experience?
I interviewed at Rohde & Schwarz (Munich, Bavaria)
Interview
First interview online with HR and hiring manager. Second technical interview in presence with HR, hiring manager and an employee. Technical interview based on an homework sent before the interview that had to be presented, then technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you manage the requirements for a new project?
Systems Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Rohde & Schwarz with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 51.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Systems Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Rohde & Schwarz overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Rohde & Schwarz as a Systems Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
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