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      Automation Engineer Interview

      9 Jun 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Bright Machines (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2026

      Interview

      Phone call with a manager first. Then a phone call with a single IC. Rejection through recruiter followed by ghosting any follow-up questions asking about improvement. Followed-up by a survey requesting for follow-up questions asking about how they can improve.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Q: Tell me about how you'd have to get updates from another team that's gating your work and semi-unresponsive? How do you handle things the other way around when you're the gate? Q: Do you know about Twinsafe and sync units for Beckhoff? Q: What sort of version control do you use? (They seemed to like the answer of GIT) Q: Tell me about your most-interesting Python project. Q: What sort of Ethercat topology do you use? (They're using a star topology with 127 nodes). Q: Have you used a robot arm before (such as Kuka or Fanuc)? Q: How do you architect your PLC code? (I mentioned ISA88 for dividing up the logic and Packml for the state machines) Q: How do you send data from a PLC to other devices? (They have had issues with MQTT due to messages being missed and use Temporal, which can send messages even if the server crashes)
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