Electrical Engineering Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Second Order Effects with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Electrical Engineering Intern roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Second Order Effects overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Second Order Effects as a Electrical Engineering Intern according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Presentation: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Second Order Effects in Jun 2025
Interview
I had three interviews, the first one was with HR and that started pretty simple just asking why this company, hardest engineering challenging, tell me about yourself, and in the last 20-30 min she hit with some relatively basic EE questions, such as how to design a flashlight, SPI vs I2C, etc. Then I had my technical interview which was just going deeper into my resume and signal processing question, and then i had my last technical but that one was really chill just talking about what i was interested in and more questions about my resume. In the end they said they werent able to do the fall internship due to internal company stuff and my friend who was also interviewing got the same rejection email at the same time and day as me.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Second Order Effects in May 2024
Interview
Went through three interviews. First is with the recruiter and involves standard resume screen and questions about general EE topics. Second and third interviews were with lead engineers and were more focused on technical questions.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Explain the difference between I2C, SPI, and UART.
Given a high speed signal at x Mbps which you want to debug an oscilloscope, what factors are important when selecting an oscilloscope to probe this signal?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Second Order Effects in Aug 2021
Interview
1st interview is conducted with HR, 2nd interview conducted with an engineer, and the 3rd interview conducted with the engineering manager. All interviews focused on the technical side w/ the only behavioral portion occurring during the 1st interview.