I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at National Instruments in Mar 2013
Interview
well i had a interview of 35 minutes... asked the most difficult bug i ever solved talked about my participation in 1 of my undergrad technical event and then last 20 minute discussion over my project.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They will keep digging the project you chose at starting. So you should have at least 1 project(academic / industrial) about which you can talk for 20-25 minutes
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at National Instruments in Oct 2011
Interview
I handed out my resume at my university's career fair and I got a call back from a NI rep who was at the fair the same day and we scheduled a 1:1 for the next morning.
The questions were pretty standard tell me about a time things didn't go well... tell me about a time when you went above and beyond... when have you been challenged? etc...
Then the technical part was a series of questions having you to do some things with a deck of cards (shuffling, drawing, etc...)
There were some serious issues with being contacted about whether or not I would be offered a job though. I was supposed hear yes or no after 2 weeks but it ended up taking a month and a half (with a lot of "am I still being considered?" emails to keep things moving).
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when things didn't go as planned?