Emailed a recruiter due to technical difficulties with their website. They called me after I emailed them my resume for a phone interview a few hours later, then set another on-site interview for the Tuesday after. Called me on Monday saying they need to review my resume for other positions and have to reschedule. The week after I get an email asking for a reschedule, and I set a date for that week. Took ~4 weeks in total. I went there and the recruiter talked about core values and asked me some general questions on what I want from work etc. An engineer on the project came in and asked me a few technical questions related to analysis, a couple of them from sophomore statics that I don't remember, including stress concentrations on a plate with a hole. I was then shown a drawing of a model and was asked how to simplify it for FEA solve times. Overthought it and didn't realize that symmetry counted as a simplification.We took a look at the ANSYS simulation the engineer was running and ended the interview, approximately 1 hour long.

I received a phone call to discuss my resume which I had posted on monster.com. Very standard questions from "HR" personnel. Next I was invited on an onsite interview without pay for traveling expenses. I waited 20 min at the "reception area" until I was told that I have to call a number to announce my arrival. 10 min later I was brought to a conference room where a manager read a printed out presentation to me which had absolutely no useful information to me. Then I was asked to give a 15 min technical presentation. One person was looking out the window (it turns out that that person is the program manager for the department where I worked and has no interest whatsoever in what you have to say), another person was from the design team and your hiring "manager"/team lead. After the presentation I was asked some general questions about design and how a jet engine works by the designer, and then extremely basic questions about strength of materials and FEA by the hiring manager. After working in the company for a while, I saw that there is almost no preparation for the interviews on QuEST's part and people are just scrambled together to give the applicant a professional appearance. You will be made an offer regardless of whether you are qualified or not. QuEST wants exponential growth and will hire anyone anytime.