I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Celestica (Toronto, ON) in Jan 2016
Interview
1. Applied online on their website
2. HR - screening email to answer questions
3. HR phone call to answer more questions related to the posting
4. Phone call with engineering manager to schedule on-site interview
5. On-site interview, Interview was very relaxed, 1.5 hours, tour afterwards.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe the technology stack you used for this project, the challenges you faced, and how you implemented it.
I applied online. I interviewed at Celestica (Toronto, ON) in Nov 2015
Interview
Applied online through Celestica career site. Heard back about 2 weeks after through email where you have to answer a few screening questions. The first round was a phone interview by the HR. The interviewer was very nice. I was asked mostly behavioral questions like, tell me about yourself, why you want to work at Celestica, what do you know about the company and so on. By the end of the week, the manager contacted me by phone to schedule an onsite interview at Celestica in Toronto. The manager was also nice. The interview lasted about an hour. Afterwards, he showed me around the labs and the equipment I'd be working with. However, I was informed that I wasn't offered a position about 2 weeks after the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Consider this telephone. How would you go about testing it?
2. How do you manage your time?
3. Let’s say you are really crunched for time, and your prof decides to move up the deadline for a project. How would you deal with it?
4. You are working on a project and you get stuck. How do you resolve the issue?
5. Who do you go to for reference if you are stuck while coding?
6. Please tell me about your experience with coding. How comfortable are you with scripting?
7. What is your experience with installing software on PC boards?
8. How do you keep up with current technologies?
9. Past internships?
10. Do you have experience working with linux/command line.
11. What is your experience with data parsing? How would you parse through data?
12. Do you know PERL, Python, TCL?
13. Do you have experience with low-level, back end?
14. Would you be more interested to do software or hardware?
15. Are you willing to learn the required prerequisites?
16. Are you comfortable with travel?
17. Please go through your relevant experience.
18. What was your toughest challenge? How did you handle it?
19. Tell me about a time when your team faced a problem. How did you handle it?
20. Do you have experience with In Lab View?
21. Day to day tasks may include data entry, keeping track of orders and communicating with vendors. Would you be comfortable with it?
22. Tell me about a time you had a disagreement within your team about a certain approach. How did you deal with it?
23. What factors did you prioritize when deciding which solution you choose?
24. If you had an idea, how would you communicate it to your team?
25. What level would you consider your programming skills to be?
26. What aspect of programming do you like?