I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Karma Automotive
Accepted offer
Positive experience
Average interview
Application
I applied through university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Karma Automotive (Irvine, CA) in Apr 2015
Interview
I was contacted by HR initially who asked me some few tech questions regarding my knowledge of softwares and also my availability. Later on, I was called on-ste for a technical interview with departmental manager at Fisker Automotive Costa Mesa which lasted for 45min.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Departmental Managers questions: So tell me something about yourself?
What kind of modeling and design softwares do you know?
Then ,She scanned my resume so thoroughly that I had to explain each and every work experience performed in detail. But since had a work experience in an automobile industry for a year, her focus of questions where 90% related to it. She asked me about the kaizen and improvements on a shop floor assembly which I answered quite satisfactorily and she was pretty much impressed. I had carried a list of documents including reports of work-ex and protect reports other than resume which complimented the interview process. I got the offer verbally and she was very flexible for me to choose the department of my choice. Next morning, I got a formal offer from the HR.
Overall. the experience was quite exciting. I was awe-struck the moment I saw Fisker Atlantic and Surf right at entrance of the plant office.
The first phone call interview was the screening round before they invited me into the office. This seemed pretty casual and was more of a chat. They'd already shown my resume to the engineering head and he'd agreed it was suitable enough for me to come in, so I suppose this was more of a test of fit/interest than ability.
The caller then, at the end of the phone screen, let me know that a person from HR would reach out to schedule a time for me to come into the office to speak with the Senior Engineer.