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      Graduate Acoustic Consultant Interview

      2 Feb 2025
      Anonymous employee
      New York, NY
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Arup (New York, NY) in Dec 2024

      Interview

      A Remote 30-minute interview, went by pretty quickly, two interviewers, and contained technical and behavioral questions. I applied online, and got the first invite in like a month or so, It's a pretty slow process.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What can you bring to arup?
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      Graduate Acoustics Consultant Interview

      14 Nov 2023
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Arup

      Interview

      Recorded 9 questions. each one has one minute to answer and 1-3 attempts are allowed for each question. It was an online interview from the big companies. Not the same as the small ones.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. introduce yourself, past experience 2. why arup 3.motivation for sustainable design 4. visa requirment
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      Graduate Acoustic Consultant Interview

      5 Dec 2022
      Anonymous employee
      New York, NY
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Arup (New York, NY) in Nov 2022

      Interview

      first interview - remote - mix of technical and behavioral questions second interview - remote - three 0.5hr interviews back to back with different teams. Had to do a pre-prepared technical presentation in the last interview

      Interview questions [16]

      Question 1

      Can you tell us about a situation in which there was conflict within the group and what you did to lead?
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      Question 2

      Name a situation in which you had to innovate.
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      Question 3

      Why Arup? Why this role?
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      Question 4

      What are your strength and weaknesses?
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      Question 5

      Example of multiple conflicting perspectives in team?
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      Question 6

      Example of learning something new quickly?
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      Question 7

      Explain a technical concept in layman terms
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      Question 8

      What is your Favourite structure/architect?
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      Question 9

      Explain simple harmonic motion in technical and non technical terms
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      Question 10

      What acoustical factors would you consider in designing a new open plan office space
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      Question 11

      you have two noise sources at 60dB and 62dB beside each other, how loud are they together in SPL?
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      Question 12

      what is the difference between white and pink noise
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      Question 13

      what are the centre frequencies for the octave bands
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      Question 14

      How to calculate the boundary (upper and lower) frequencies of the octave bands
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      Question 15

      what frequency is middle c on a piano
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      Question 16

      are / were you a musician?
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