Within a few days after applying online I got a call back from a recruiter to schedule a phone interview with one of the senior structures engineers. It was a pretty standard half hour phone interview. We talked about the design and analysis work I had done on a student team at school as well as the analysis work I did at one of my co-op jobs. For each topic we covered, I talked about the general scope, a few cool details and he asked a few questions about details or decisions that I made. Overall, it went pretty well. At the end of it, he told me he was going to tell the recruiter to bring me out for an on site interview. About 3.5 weeks after the phone interview, they flew me out for an on site interview - They said it was the earliest they could get everybody they wanted together at once. The on site interview was really cool. My recruiter first gave me a 20-30ish minute tour of the facility and factory. It was fun, I got to see a bunch of different pieces in progress and get an appreciation for the scale involved. After the tour, I gave a 20 minute presentation to about 8 people on some of the work I did on the same student team. After answering and discussing questions, I left to give them a bit of time to talk before we started doing 1 on 1 interviews. Over the course of the day, I did somewhere around 10 1 on 1 interviews. Each interview was completely different in terms of what we discussed. I answered a few "interview" type questions, but mostly we just kept talking about technical things I had worked on on the student team. Things we talked about included design/analysis decisions I had made, assumptions I had made, why I made them and the implications of those assumptions, and how I could have done my analysis differently to make certain parts of it more accurate. The "interview" questions that I remember answering were(paraphrased): - Tell me about a time something went wrong because of a decision you made and what you did about it - Why are you interested in the company? They had a few standard tests they did and questions they asked me. They had a 5 or 6 question written test covering very basic things like shear and moment diagrams, efficiency of sections in bending, hydraulics, FBDs etc. After finishing that, I was asked some follow up questions about beam theory and material selection to optimize beam stiffness. If you know the basics, you'll have no trouble with most of them. The other standard test they gave me was a picture of a strut and a surface they wanted to mount it to. They asked me to design them a mount and I had to ask questions to find out what was important and what it needed to do. Overall, the interview went really well. Everybody I talked to was really enthusiastic and interested in what they were doing. It was definitely long, I spent about 8 or so hours there, but I wasn't as tired as you'd think by the end of it.

First there is a phone screening, next there are interviews with engineers and managers, then finally there are in-person interviews. In the final interviews you need to give an in-depth technical presentation on a project you have worked on.