First the HR calls to ask some basic questions to check your market value and your expectation. Then the hiring manager get in touch for a phone call. Later hiring manager provides you a design exercise (a very broad exercise) and ask you to spend a few hours working on it. Then review exercise with the hiring manager.
I applied online. I interviewed at MathWorks in Nov 2020
Interview
Overall, a very positive interview process with MathWorks. Stephen might be the best and most responsive hiring manager I have ever met. The entire interview lasted one month. I had the 1st round interview with the hiring manager through a virtual meeting to talk about my past work. And then I had a followed up phone call with HR to discuss salary and other stuff. The next round was talking to another UX manager at a different team. After that, they gave me a week to complete a take-home UX design challenge(I also prepared a deck to present the process and solution). For the final onsite, I did a 30-40mins portfolio presentation and had five 1-1 sessions to talk to different teams. Mathworks did background check and reference check before informing the final offer.
They have a very restrictive salary policy; if you don't reach senior level, then you might receive the same salary as people with fewer years of working experience. And they are not very willing to negotiate salary. In the end, I got a much better offer from a different company so I rejected the offer from Mathworks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about your design process for this project on your portfolio site?
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at MathWorks (Natick, MA) in Nov 2016
Interview
Very thorough interview, with an onsite session that lasted 2+ hours with multiple persons asking a variety of both job and non-job related questions. I was gained an interview by a personal friend who is a current employee. Ultimately the skills required were more than I had a the time.