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      Applications Engineer Interview

      Mar 17, 2012
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at COMSOL in Mar 2012

      Interview

      I found the job posting on indeed.com and applied online at the company's website. I got an email about two days later to schedule a phone interview with an applications engineer. The phone interview went pretty ok. It was mostly technical stuff on computational fluid mechanics, turbulence modeling, finite element programing, open source software and my research work. I felt the interview went pretty ok and I was told to wait for their response in a couple of days. About half and hour later, I got a call from the hiring manager inviting me for an onsite interview at Comsol office in Burlington MA. The onsite interview lasted about 3 hours. I gave a presentation about my research. I got a number of technical questions during my presentation especially with regards to mathematical formulation of my research problem and the numerical implementation. I also got a lot of tech questions on fundamental numerics such as accuracy of Gudonov methods around a shock wave which to me was kinda odd considering how long ago I did all that stuff. At some point, I had to write out the steps for implementing the PISO algorithm on a white board...more like a thesis defense! I had other 1:1 interviews with different applications engineers, the hiring manager and more senior personnel and it was basically tech stuff particularly relating to my research background.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How do you implement the pressure implicit splitting operation to decouple pressure from velocity when solving the incompressible Navier stokes equations?
      Answer question
      8

      Other Applications Engineer Interview Reviews for COMSOL

      Applications Engineer Interview

      Feb 22, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at COMSOL

      Interview

      First round was a screening round. In the second round, a set of questions were given and then I was asked to send the answers in 24 hours. My answers were discussed later in an interview.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Why do I want to work in their company
      Answer question
      1

      Applications Engineer Interview

      Jan 29, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Los Angeles, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at COMSOL (Los Angeles, CA) in Oct 2023

      Interview

      interview with hiring manager as well as director. Never got back to me and when I followed up within the timeline they discussed didn't respond received a typical hr email 3 weeks later

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Typical questions about my background
      1 Answer

      Application Engineer Interview

      Jan 12, 2023
      Anonymous employee
      Burlington, MA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at COMSOL (Burlington, MA) in Dec 2022

      Interview

      First round video call interview Second round on-site research presentation and technical questions. Research presentation is about 20 minutes. Technical questions are mostly about the Galerkin FEM and numerical analysis in general. They did a great job of asking questions about my research too.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Q: Would a moving-mesh formulation conserve mass?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Q: How would increased convection change mass transport in a domain of thermally-driven flow?
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      Q: How did you get your numerical system to converge?
      1 Answer
      2

      COMSOL interviews FAQs

      • Applications Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at COMSOL with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 43.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Applications Engineer roles take an average of 38 days to get hired, when considering 9 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at COMSOL overall takes an average of 50 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at COMSOL as a Applications Engineer according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  23%

        Presentation:  19%

        Group panel interview:  15%

        Skills test:  15%

        One on one interview:  15%

        Background check:  12%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Applications Engineer(15) ;
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        3. Software Developer(8) ;
        4. Technical Sales Engineer(5) ;
        5. Software Engineer(4) ;
        6. Account Manager(3) ;
        7. Marketing(3) ;
        8. Sales Manager(3) ;
        9. Application Engineer(2) ;
        10. Application-Engineer(2) ;
        11. Especialista De Marketing(2) ;
        12. Sales Engineer(2) ;
        13. Senior Applications Engineer(2) ;
        14. Technical Support Engineer(2) ;
        15. ingénieur(2) .


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      Jobs at COMSOL

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      Applications Engineer: Computational Electromagnetics
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      Applications Engineer: Low Frequency Electromagnetics
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