Senior Design Engineer Interview Questions

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- Why RR and why this role? - Provide STAR based examples to the 4 cultural pillars of RR. - Provided an erroneous centrifugal pump cross section and planar view and wanted to go through each component (manufacturing methods, assembly methods, what was the issue etc)
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Senior Design Engineer

Interviewed at Rolls-Royce

4.1
Oct 27, 2025

- Why RR and why this role? - Provide STAR based examples to the 4 cultural pillars of RR. - Provided an erroneous centrifugal pump cross section and planar view and wanted to go through each component (manufacturing methods, assembly methods, what was the issue etc)

No concrete questions at all. After HR prescan, in the second interview, the interviewer seemed technically incompetent and just told me that he could not figure out why I was called for the interview claiming that I was irrelevant. I tried to convince him that I was capable for 45 minutes.
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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Interviewed at ASM

2.5
Dec 19, 2021

No concrete questions at all. After HR prescan, in the second interview, the interviewer seemed technically incompetent and just told me that he could not figure out why I was called for the interview claiming that I was irrelevant. I tried to convince him that I was capable for 45 minutes.

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