The job listing was for a MEMS engineering position for their Mirasol display technology group. It was open only for PhDs with some processing skills and extensive design, theory, development and test skills. I was first scheduled for a phone interview with an engineering manager. The interview was a regular CV-details and experience dialog. Inside a week they asked me for an on-site interview which took place the following week. The on-site was fairly rigorous, full day, technical + personality type interview. I started out with an hour long presentation of my research. I was interrupted with multiple questions from their engineers that did not understand the processing technology I employed due to their limited experience, and their engineering manager had to explain the nuances. This resulted in me not being able to go through about 50% of my presentation since the questions took up a lot of time. Then I had one-on-one interviews with every person in that group. The interviews were again, mostly a review of my background and some fairly simple questions on lithography, materials mechanics and device technology. One of the engineers, realizing that I had career academic aspirations, told me bluntly that QMT was not a place for me. He detailed the internal political processes that left him quite dissatisfied with his job and how he would love to move out. I had an interview with the QMT director who quizzed me on cohesive zone fracture models and on some details of my adhesion rupture models for brittle materials. That was it. I was offered the job after three months of waiting. I did not take it because the environment there seemed poisoned.
