I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at MathWorks (Cambridge, England) in Apr 2014
Interview
I applied for the Control Systems stream. The last stage was the on-site interview after 2 HR rounds and one technical round.
Technical Round:
The questions were divided into clear sections just like the telephone one. They expected you to know the answer properly and answer most of the questions. I don't remember all of them, sorry.
- Find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a 2x2 matrix
- Find the maximum area of a rectangle under a curve
You have to write the expression for y from the equation of the curve. Area =x*y. Differentiate, equate to zero and find the value of x for which the area is maximum. Then take the second derivative and check if the value of the function is <0
- Write a recursive function to determine the factorial/fibonacci numbers
- Write pseudo code for any sorting algorithm
- Write an algorithm to draw a section of an arc if the topmost is a point (y,0)
- Some inheritance questions
- They gave me a snippet of a code that copies one string to another and asked me what the function does
- Find the bug in a piece of code.
- Pointer questions like *++q and ++*q
- Draw the responses of differently damped systems for a 2nd order linear system
- What happens if there are zeros in the system
- Lead-lag compensators
- Lyapunov stability
- Controllability and Observability
HR and manager rounds
- How are you with working in teams?
- How would your supervisor describe you?
- What do you think your supervisor thinks your main weakness are?
- Can you handle multiple responsibilities?
- What is your prefered supervision style?
- If you could not do any control systems at all in this role, how will you handle it? Will you be okay with it?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A few HR questions were difficult. I did not expect lead-lag compensators design.
- What do you think you will dislike in this job was tough to answer?
I applied online. I interviewed at MathWorks (Natick, MA) in Mar 2026
Interview
1 OA consisting of 2 DSA questions(medium) and a video interview answering "why mathworks". Followed by a phone screening. Followed by 4 hours of interview on the same say, with technical round(asking about your experiences and 1 LLD question), Manager round(resume again, and behavioral), HR round(basic behavioral)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you had a conflict with a teammate/coworker
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at MathWorks in Feb 2026
Interview
Phone Screen - Basic behavioral questions like what are you looking for in your next job, questions about my background. They rejected me since my major was ECE and I had applied for a CS role
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at MathWorks (Natick, MA)
Interview
3 rounds in total; OA, phone screen with an EDG manager and a 4 hour in depth technical+behavioral.
Overall the interview process was very smooth with all the interviews being extremely kind and helpful throughout the interview process.
The technical questions across the OA and live technical felt along the lines of Leetcode mediums for mine.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- resume based deep dive on how I designed and implemented a project
- resource management style LLD design
- Array based leetcode medium style question