They asked questions about my previous experience and had me walk through the process of doing user interviews and user studies.
Human Factors Engineer Interview Questions
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What is a strength and weakness of yours as each a team member and a team leader?
What is your experience with FDA regulations
If a new Apple product was being designed, what would be the different physical considerations you would take into account
What would you do if a team came to you with a phone that was supposed to launch for a month, but there were rumours from internal testing that folks would randomly lose signal.
The goal of the project for this internship was to design the "out-of-box experience" (packaging, instructional print materials, how the contents are laid out in the box, etc.) for one of their products in development. The most unexpected question was asked by my mentor-to-be (not verbatim): "Can you think of a product that had a memorable, unique, intuitive out-of-box experience?"
On the white board we have sketched a wireframe of a software screen. The usability testing has shown some problems with this screen. Please describe how you would go about determining the source of the usability issues and how you would solve them.
Why do you want to work for us?
What is Human Factor? Tell me about yourself. What is your experience interviewing? How do you handle criticism? How do you manage deadlines?
Interest in prior research since the company is so science-based
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