I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Neato Robotics in Aug 2012
Interview
The interview process started with a phone interview with a contract recruiter, followed by another phone interview with the hiring manager, and then an on-site interview with approximately 6 people, 2 of which were engineers that I would be working with directly, split into 5 sessions. The on-site interview was approximately 4 hours, split between two days due to schedule conflicts. Technical questions were relevant , but not high pressure or especially difficult for anyone familiar with robotics software development.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
An open-ended question, consisting of a short block of C-code and asked to identify any problems and to offer as many different ways to address them.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Neato Robotics (Newark, CA) in Jun 2016
Interview
The interview process was not long, less than a month. I had two phone interviews that were not hard. Then I had an on-site interview with four different people. The first person was a director who mostly asked high level robotics questions. Then two programmers came and asked some coding questions. At the end the manager interviewed me with some HR questions.
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Question 1
The topics of questions were about C++ Pointers, an easy program to print something on screen, few questions about sensors and EKF.
This position is for people who have a great deal of interest in robotics and robotic systems. I completed my first technical interview yesterday with the Director of Software Engineering. I was asked about my AI experience, my projects, AI techniques that I have used in my projects. I was asked to explain what SLAM (particle SLAM in particular) and fuzzy logic are. The interviewer said that the description of the position was a little old and now they are looking for people who can work completely in robotics.
Another interview would be scheduled sometime soon where my Algorithms and Mathematics knowledge would be tested.
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Question 1
What do you know about our company? Can you explain SLAM?