I got contacted by a recruiter that I met at a career fair, and had a couple phone interviews. After two phone interviews with two people on the PD team, I did not end up getting another round. I was not prepared for the questions they were going to ask me. I definitely should have prepared more because they try to stump you. They asked me some behavioral questions like what are your 3 biggest weaknesses as and engineer, as well as hard technical ones that I could have answered by reading off a table from a textbook. In fact, I indicated that I could look it up, and got scolded as I was informed that that was not the point of this technical interview. So word of advice: Ask politely before any technical questions if its okay to look something up, or just don't look stuff up. The advice that I got from them afterward was that they just want to see my process, so always explain your thoughts.

The interview went well overall. The interviewer opened with a discussion about a project I'm proud of, then a beam scenario question that covered structural and load analysis, stress and deflection, and material selection — testing my ability to connect first-principles thinking across the full problem space.