Electrical Engineering Interview Experiences

Applied through my co-op portal. Interview was with the team lead and a senior electrical engineer over Teams. Questions on power distribution design, transformer sizing and protection relay coordination. They also had me work through a single line diagram and identify potential issues. Very technical for a co-op but the interviewers were patient and let me think out loud. Heeard back in about 10 days.

Usual process. Phone screen then a longer interview, Agile methodology questions and how I handle scope changes. The interviewer was really nice and we ended up just talking about the team for the last 10 minutes.

Six weeks of waiting and the rejection email said nothing useful. Phone screen with a team lead on circuit analysis and PCB layout. Technical round had Verilog questions plus a hardware debugging project discussion.

They asked about CAD and GIS tools I hadn't listed but had used in a course, so be ready for that. Technical panel with two engineers covered power distribution fundamentals and a grid reliability scenario.

Felt like graduate level stuff honestly. Assessment then technical on networking, OSI model, TCP vs UDP, subnetting, routing protocols. Knew the basics but the interviewer went into OSPF and BGP territory.

They emailed a PDF beforehand with the exact process and example questions.Got the actual questions at the start with time to think. Really student friendly format. Past competency examples. About 32 days.

Practice exercises given before so you knew the format going in. Pre recorded video interview, 3 behavioral questions about 12 minutes total. One question about a leadership accomplishment, one about transformer stations, one about Hydro One's role in Ontario's grid. Got an offer 5 days later.

Quick call with a supervisor who asked basic stuff about SQL and Java. then managers interview, went into Angular and Spring Boot which aren't on most co-op resumes lol. no whiteboard or anything just discussion based.

Quick process, about four weeks. Resume based questions on career goals and why they should hire me. French preferred for Montreal so I answered partly in French. Transmission infrastructure project.

Two stage process. HR was mostly administrative. Team lead interview was half behavioral half role fit. They mentioned the role was on a power systems project and wanted to confirm I'd taken power electronics. 29 days application to offer

Nothing but behavioral in the department interview, safety culture questions dominated. No technical questions on electrical systems at all. HR screening first then the department interview 3 weeks later. They went with someone with more relevant background.

In person at the Aurora facility. Technical interview covered Kalman filter estimation and C++ on classes and inheritance. Then behavioral with HR. Offer within 12 days. The campus rep at my school helped set expectations for the technical portion.

Brush up on technical vocabulary in French before this one. Interview with the network team covered transmission line protection, relay coordination and SCADA systems. Interview was partly in French. Waiting to hear back.

Asked about citizenship for clearance right away. Two rounds, resume walkthrough and behavioral. No feedback after rejection

They were really interested in my senior design project and asked lots of follow ups. Initial screen then technical round with the hiring team. Questions on circuit fundamentals signal processing and some FPGA stuff.

Relaxed interview for a tech company, prescreen call with talent acquisition was 10 min then 40 min on Teams with my interviewer who asked about my previous co-op and why do u wanna work at Infosys and do I prefer working alone or in a team. Talked about my third year design project.

Got through to the panel round but didn't advance, no explanation given. Video interview then a phone assessment. Questions on critical thinking and giving an example of working through a situation without full information.

Full hour technical with the engineering team.Wanted to know the tech behind every resume project and my specific contributions. Threw satellite systems questions at me I had zero context for lmao

Domain stuff matters more than coding here. Phone screen, then technical on semiconductor processes and VLSI design. Got a question about propagation delay and power tradeoffs I only partially answered. Coding at the end was easier.

10 question test first with stuff about TCP/UDP subnetting VLANs and the OSI model then 30 minutes of job related questions with my interviewer on Teams

Know your warp execution and memory coalescing if you're applying here. GPU architecture and CUDA across three phone interviews over two weeks. Third round was a project deep dive on parallel computing work.

Really wanted this one got so upset when i didnt get it. Applied January, screening call mid February, panel late March, rejection in April. The wait between each step was brutal. Panel was safety culture and behavioral with three people.

Declined because I got a better offer at OPG. Two rouund interview, technical discussion with a principal engineer got into power distribution and protection relay questions, dug into a course project about substation design.

One interview with a couple engineers, dug into embedded systems and CAN bus protocol. I had light CAN exposure from a project but not deep enough. They were looking for more automotive specific electronics background.

Final round had a teardown exercise on a thermostat, identify components and explain how they interact. Bar was higher than expected. First two rounds were normal HR and behavioral.

Was not prepared for how safety heavy this interview would be. Power systems theory and transformer fundamentals then a safety scenario on working near live electrical equipment. Technical panel after a quick HR screen.