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      Mechanical Systems Engineer Interview

      22 Sept 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Kent, WA

      Other Mechanical Systems Engineer interview reviews for Blue Origin

      Mechanical Systems Engineer Interview

      27 Jul 2022
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Blue Origin (Kent, WA) in Sept 2017

      Interview

      I have to say the people are fantastic. Every one of them was personable and super sharp. The interview process was like waking up after a long sleep in roles that limit engineers to small scopes of responsibility. It was refreshing to see a place that requires both design and analysis. It started off with a phone screening with a recruiter, followed by an on-site. The first on-site was a one on one chat with the hiring manager, who asked work history and discipline-specific questions peppered with technical questions. My brief interaction was a positive one. Once I got word that I would be moving forward in the process; I was set up with a full interview loop. The full loop included a presentation to those who would later be interviewing me one on one regarding my work history, followed by some Q&A. After the group presentation; I sat down with each person and we discussed relevant technical knowledge. I'm going to say it really showed me how much the silo I work in now has degraded my memory of some basic equations. You can bet I went back and brushed up after the interview on everything I didn't remember. Included in the questions were problems to solve that gauged my knowledge and (I believe) my approach to problem solving. Everything from free body diagrams, to beam loading, to schematics and material properties. I'm going to call it difficult, because relative to every other interview I've had for an engineering role; this one was the hardest. If you haven't lost your knowledge material properties and equations to the sands of time; it should help a lot. It comes back quickly, but if you're home when it does; that won't help you.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What were some of the critical design details about a project you worked on?
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      I applied online. I interviewed at Blue Origin

      Interview

      1. Phone Screen - 30 mins, somewhat technical 2. Presentation/Panel Interview - ~4 hrs, very technical and do not wait to make a presentation! 3. Bar Raiser - 30 min, more so behavioral, but could have some technical questions.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Describe what you have been a responsible engineer for.
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