I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cochlear (Sydney) in Dec 2010
Interview
The hiring process was quite quick - I had an interview scheduled within a couple of weeks of applying. Normally they do two separate ones (for HR and the specific department), but mine they combined into one (with two people interviewing me). I got through to the second round, which was a psychometric test (personality and mathematical/language aptitude) and I took that a week later. From memory there were four sections and the whole thing took about four hours to complete, but it was possible to take breaks in between. I was unsupervised - just me and a laptop in a small room.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked to draw basic circuit diagrams on the whiteboard. Aside from that, everything was fairly standard.