Interviewed on campus with an NI recruiter, then was called for an on-site interview at Austin 2 weeks later. The interview process was very well coordinated. At each step of the process, the NI employee made sure that you thoroughly understand what the position is about and whether or not you would like working there. The travel process was very well arranged and the NI hosts make sure you enjoy your stay at Austin. The interview was an all-day interview, but 90% behavioral. I enjoyed my visit to the NI campus and loved the environment there; everyone is basically straight out of school so you have a lot of people your age. However I thought the work would not be fulfilling as I got the impression that it's basically glorified tech support.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
For my on-campus interview:
1) Describe a system that could convert a voice signal to a digital computer signal
2) Other than that basically going over resume
For on-site interview:
1) There were 5 interviews, each with someone else, as well as a technical presentation. There was a historical, behavioral, technical, and 2 others based on the departments you were interested in.
2) Most questions were typical behavioral questions ("If you were in X situation, what would you do?" or "What interests you about X?").
3) The technical interview was more of a puzzle than a legit engineering question. One of them had to do with clock timing signals and the other was about image processing.
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez National Instruments (Houston, TX) en sept. 2018
Entretien
met a recruiter at career fair, was emailed and encouraged to apply online, signed up for a one hour interview, it was half technical, half behavioral
they were so nice and encouraging, very welcoming environment
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
technical: microphone signal explanation, and array pseudocode
J'ai postulé via un établissement d'enseignement supérieur ou universitaire. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez National Instruments (College Station, TX) en sept. 2018
Entretien
After meeting a company representative and chatting with them at engineering career fair, I was offered an interview on campus. The interview was with one employee of 2 and a half years and lasted an hour. Standard behavioral questions with two technical questions.
Questions d'entretien [2]
Question 1
Given an array of numbers 99 numbers 1-100 in random order, write down code to find which number is missing.
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez National Instruments (Newbury, Angleterre) en mars 2018
Entretien
Assessment Day includes 4 stages. A Behavioral Interview, a Technical Interview, a Technical/Sales Presentation and a Group Activity.
The Behavioral Interview is your standard scenario interview questions, strengths, weaknesses, that sort of thing.
The Technical Interview is a series of questions where one questions answers is subsequently used in the next question. I was asked about how a computer would recognize a spectrum of shades in an image. This in turn led to some psuedo-coding which led to a contrasted image wherein I had to use or reevaluate my psuedo-code. It is the point of the exercise not necessarily to know the straight answer, rather work your way through the answer by asking questions to the interviewer so that they may help you understand.
The Presentation is a simple sales presentation using technical specs and showcasing your understanding for the product, how and why etc. It's fairly free-form and the other presentations differed vastly.
The Group activity is simply about showcasing organizational skills and quantity/quality of solving something under pressure.
