I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Viridien (Houston, TX) in Jun 2011
Interview
Attended campus career fair on early Feb, had some talks and submitted resume.
After 1and1/2 month later, received an email asking transcripts for consideration.
A week later, received an email asking scheduling a phone interview.
A few days later, had a phone interview. It took about 25 minutes and consisted of four problems regarding high school level math like geometry and sequence. One of them was a little bit more tricky and actually couldn't anser at the moment : four digit number is some multiple of its own in reversed order. Just said strategy.
About a month later (late April), received an email asking on-site interview.
Had an on-site interview on June. It took about 2hours: HR person and VP. VP asked general questions about my background, current research topic, one basic question on my major, one a little difficult math problem and one puzzle-like question. The math problem was solving some situation which is reduced to basically cubic equation.
After about 2 weeks, received a no-offer letter.
The company looked nice. People were kind and friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Four digit number, when placed in reversed order, is four times of the original. What is it?
first round. in the format of phone or zoom. I was asked some math questions/basic physics questions. Some of them are like middle school math contest questions. Some of the focus on signal processing. I don't remember all of them. But if you are good in high school. you will be fine.
I was interviewed by only one person. They asked me why I wanted to work for them and my skills. They asked me about my thesis and if I was avaiable to move out of my country.
Two rounds of phone interviews. First round to describe yourself about your research and so on and asked some simple math question. Second round asked some brain teaser and more math questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
some brain teasers related to geometry algebra questions as well as classical probability