Aerotek Hardware Test / Validation Engineer interviews, decoded.

Recruiter contacted me after seeing my resume online. Had a phone interview and they asked for references. We talked about the specifics of the job they were trying to fill. They asked me about parts of my resume that related to the job. We discussed the salary I requested, and they might have been looking for someone with a lower salary expectation. We talked about meeting up, but the job was filled before that could happen.

I had two separate 30-minute meetings with two different managers. Each meeting was too short to really get into a lot of detail.

The Aerotek recruiter spent a lot of time asking repetitive questions during the initial phone interview and then there was an in-person interview. It felt like the workers asking questions didn't really look at my resume or background, just asking them as filler because they had to. The recruiters could be kind of rude and condescending.