A while after applying for the position, I was contacted by the department head by phone. Had a nice conversation. I was contacted some time thereafter for a live interview with him and another department member. That went well. I was told that as part of the next step that I would have to do a 45 minute powerpoint presentation and have several interviews, including another interview both department members. Did the presentation and had one interview. Then I met with the department head and he told me that, after discussing it with the rest of the panel, that they were going to look elsewhere. The reason for this was that I had not mentioned the job when I discussed why I wanted to work for Mathworks in my presentation. They cancelled the rest of the interviews that were scheduled that day. I mentioned that I had discussed at length why I wanted the position in my prior interviews.
Mathworks seems like a good company- they're expanding. And the people seemed nice. It's just tht their interview process is totally asinine and unnecessary. Unless you're applyingfor a sales or marketing position, having someone do a presentation makes no sense. And they stretch the proecess otu for weeks. It's almost if the last person standing gets the job.
Bottom line- if you can tolerate the BS of the job interview process, this is probably not a bad place to work. If I had it to do over again, I would have told them to stick it.
