Digital Hardware Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at National Instruments with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Digital Hardware Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 19 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at National Instruments overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at National Instruments as a Digital Hardware Engineer according to 19 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 44%
Skills test: 21%
Personality test: 10%
Group panel interview: 8%
Phone interview: 5%
Background check: 5%
Other: 3%
Presentation: 3%
Drug test: 3%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at National Instruments (Atlanta, GA) in Feb 2016
Interview
it is a 30-45 mins 1-1 interview locating at a hotel conference room near my college.
I met the interviewer on the campus career fair and info session.
They let me choose to have technical or behavior interview first.
The overall interview is not that hard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a State Machine, and analyze the delays.
Review some projects on the resume.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at National Instruments
Interview
On-campus interview. It was two behavioral questions plus some technical questions. I was interviewed by two hardware engineers. They were cordial and very helpful. They helped me along when I was unsure of how to proceed with the problem. They were planning to ask me more technical questions, but we ran out of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time when you had to research something and apply it to your project.
Design a circuit for a 101 detector.
Design a circuit for a 101 detector, and let the output be high for 3 clock cycles after sequence detected.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at National Instruments (Ann Arbor, MI) in Oct 2015
Interview
The intern interview lasts about 45 minutes and includes 3 parts: 1) ask some personal information like visa status, graduation date. 2) ask you to describe two personal experiences on problem solving and designing. 3) Give you 15 minutes to solve a problem on digital circuit. Of course, the rest of time is Q&A
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a experience that you encounter a difficult problem which takes you a very long time, says months, to solve it. What's the problem and how did you figure out and solve it?