Few days after submitting the online application, I received an email from one of their senior application engineers, to schedule a phone interview the next day. The phone interview took about 45 min, with the call dropped once. I redialed and we kept the going smoothly. He asked about my finite element experience. Specifically "Can you tell me more about such and such project..." kind of things. Some particular questions were: If they were to give you what you wanted, which one would you choose: harmonic analysis or transient? How do you adjust time stepping in transient analysis? Element size in dynamic analysis? How many elements per wavelength? How much non-linear analysis have you done? Have you used COMSOL? Which version? What did you use for meshing? How do you address large deformations in linear FEM? Are you aware of a linear model that sustains large deformations? He concluded with saying "we'll do a follow up with you within a week or two". It's been more than two weeks: no response, so I'm guessing, they were looking for somebody else.