R&D Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Align Technology with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for R&D Engineer roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Align Technology overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Align Technology as a R&D Engineer according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Two stage Interview Process:
1. First technical interview about experience and skills: was confronted with an actual business problem they are facing and was asked about how I would go about solving
2. Coding and Machine Learning Interview: was held as two separate sessions - the coding one was a classical Leet Code interview with additional technical questions on ML concepts in the final part of the interview - for the ML Interview I was asked to select and review a paper (I chose "Attention Is All You Need") from a list they gave me which we then discussed in quite a lot of detail
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you apply a Transformer structure to a given problem at Align?
I applied online. I interviewed at Align Technology (San Jose, CA) in Dec 2024
Interview
Contacted by recruiter/talent acquisition and then 3 rounds of interviews- 30 min personal interview over video with the hiring manager, 1 hour technical over video with 3 people, then onsite for 3 interviews and to give a 45 minute presentation.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Align Technology (San Jose, CA)
Interview
interview call with HR, very general questions about why you think you are a good fit. Visa status.
After ~1 week, video interview with HM. Mostly asked about my own projects. 1-2 questions about the core technical skills used in the team.
Get rejected after that. No feedback from them.