Applied online. First interview: Met with low level engineer on the team and was immediately thrown a general background of the company with no time to show my interest or understanding of the business model of the company. Then talked about my background for a minute or so, spent the rest of the call analyzing theoretical situations to size up basic engineering principles with various correct answers. Interviewer was very personable, kind, and an overall good experience. Heard back after 30 minutes to proceed to next interview. Met with hiring manager/team lead next and immediately jumped into a CAD skills test. Interviewer was also very nice, cheerful, and generous all around. However, I think allowing the candidate to make design choices without any micro-managing or immediately critiquing/questioning a feature would create a better showcase of skills and overall experience. There just wasn’t time to evaluate your design yourself before having it checked over. That being said interviewer was clearly critiquing at a mid-senior engineer level for a new-grad/entry level position. Obviously, his opinion is well backed by experience, but I got the impression I was to design his way or hit the highway. He was very generous with time, offering valuable feedback, and creating a relatively low stress environment aside from the micro-pushing every design choice though. Parts were relatively easy to model with multiple correct ways to achieve final design, but the entities and relations you choose to make matter infinitely more than getting the finished product. Being my first skills test interview, I learned what they prefer from a design choice perspective and would’ve appreciated the opportunity to either have a longer skills test with more complex part or do a design challenge with more time to create a polished version of the model. Received automated rejection email three days later which was much appreciated instead of ghosting. Overall experience was okay; definitely overall felt difficult and seemed though they were looking for a candidate with as much experience, industry best practices, and raw technical skills, again for an entry level position. Wasn’t really given the opportunity or the time to connect with the interviewer’s and they definitely care infinitely more about modeling skills than ability to work well with others, articulate ideas, understand the business, etc. Basically my advice would be: skip trying to be the perfect well rounded candidate, be sure you are confident and stand behind every choice even if it’s interpretable, and focus purely on making your models as parametric as possible within the allotted time.