Mechanical Product Design Engineer Interview Questions

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No concrete questions at all. After HR prescan, in the second interview, the interviewer seemed technically incompetent and just told me that he could not figure out why I was called for the interview claiming that I was irrelevant. I tried to convince him that I was capable for 45 minutes.
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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Interviewed at ASM

2.4
Dec 19, 2021

No concrete questions at all. After HR prescan, in the second interview, the interviewer seemed technically incompetent and just told me that he could not figure out why I was called for the interview claiming that I was irrelevant. I tried to convince him that I was capable for 45 minutes.

How would you secure a glass cube to an aluminum plate? If this cube now had to be carefully placed, how would you do that cheaply? If the cube was sitting attached for months in a storage area, then bolted to a housing, and then 30 mins later it was detached, what do you think went wrong?
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Mechanical Design Engineer

Interviewed at ASML

4
Jul 10, 2021

How would you secure a glass cube to an aluminum plate? If this cube now had to be carefully placed, how would you do that cheaply? If the cube was sitting attached for months in a storage area, then bolted to a housing, and then 30 mins later it was detached, what do you think went wrong?

Cantilever beam. What are the reactionary forces and moments with a load on the end? What's the optimal design shape for the beam? In an I-beam, being held up by 2 bolts on the top, what are the shear forces acting on them? etc.
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Mechanical Design Engineer

Interviewed at ASML

4
Dec 4, 2017

Cantilever beam. What are the reactionary forces and moments with a load on the end? What's the optimal design shape for the beam? In an I-beam, being held up by 2 bolts on the top, what are the shear forces acting on them? etc.

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