I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Lockheed Martin in Nov 2012
Interview
After applying online, I was contacted thru email about 2 weeks later and asked to fill out a forms for a background check. I submitted them and waited about 3 days until I got another email from HR asking for a phone interview on a specific date and time with the Hiring Manager. The interview was actually with a panel of 3 people including the manager/head of the design team and a senior systems engineer.
The panel asked only behavior questions (about 6, lasted 1hr). They want STARS answers so be prepared. Also be prepared with many job related experiences and don't solely talk about school related experiences. The job itself is very customer based and most of the questions they ask will be related to that.
Overall the questions were relatively lax but the undertone was very apparent that the team had a lot of interviewees so far and still had many to go. So don't be surprised if they take no notice to your very interesting story and just act relatively bored like they are just going thru the motion.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Something to the effect of:
"When you have had a difficult customer, how did you deal with them and accomplish the task at hand?"
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Lockheed Martin (Philadelphia, PA) in Feb 2012
Interview
I applied online and after a few weeks I was called and told I could be interviewed on Friday (it was Wednesday). They arranged for me to fly in to Philadelphia from Austin on company expense. It was very short notice but I decided to go since the position seemed interesting.
The interviews were very informal and consisted of two parts: a "technical" interview and an HR interview. The "technical" interview was just a tour of the facility with small talk. The interviewer showed me some wireless communications devices and was interested in if I could keep up with the conversations. He never asked "interview questions," but rather it was up to me to demonstrate some knowledge.
The second part was an interview with HR. The interview was very straightforward, following the STARS format (look this up). He simply asked questions such as "talk about a time when you encountered a problem, and describe how you solved it."
That was actually entire interview process. They then told me they would let me know if I got the position (unfortunately I didn't).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There weren't any technical questions. I found that the most difficult question was something along the lines of "talk about a time when something bad happened as a result of miscommunication."