Embedded Firmware Interview Questions

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Convert a string of integers to a double. Implement round robin operating system and how this is implemented using stacks. Build an LED system's architecture to do a light show. If you could run the company, what would you do?
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Embedded Firmware Engineer

Interviewed at Synapse Product Development

4.4
Jul 27, 2020

Convert a string of integers to a double. Implement round robin operating system and how this is implemented using stacks. Build an LED system's architecture to do a light show. If you could run the company, what would you do?

There's not a particular question that's most difficult. I'd recommend being pretty up on RTOS and recent embedded microcontrollers. In my case I feel I am rather up on C, C++, board design and bringup, hw tools, author-level linker and debugger tech, fair RTOS understanding at a kernel level, register-level ARM and AVR understanding, and decades of UNIX experience, and those didn't get me to "yes", despite all those fitting the job description. So you might wish to set expectations that a whole constellation of judgement may be at play and a good technical show may be just half of the requirements. I really don't know why I wasn't selected, unfortunately, so my guess is in a market like SF or Seattle one gets a pretty sweet pool from which to choose.
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Senior Embedded/Firmware Software Engineer

Interviewed at Synapse Product Development

4.4
Nov 26, 2014

There's not a particular question that's most difficult. I'd recommend being pretty up on RTOS and recent embedded microcontrollers. In my case I feel I am rather up on C, C++, board design and bringup, hw tools, author-level linker and debugger tech, fair RTOS understanding at a kernel level, register-level ARM and AVR understanding, and decades of UNIX experience, and those didn't get me to "yes", despite all those fitting the job description. So you might wish to set expectations that a whole constellation of judgement may be at play and a good technical show may be just half of the requirements. I really don't know why I wasn't selected, unfortunately, so my guess is in a market like SF or Seattle one gets a pretty sweet pool from which to choose.

First round: just go through my resume. Second round: A coding question in C about memory manipulation. Third round: casual talk about my work experience. Final round: - Session 1: questions about interrupts, ARM exception model, QNX and Linux, and computer architecture. - Session 2: a coding question in C, parsing data from a stream of bytes. - Session 3: asking about my projects, interests, and some related technical concepts. - Session 4: given a physical control system including multiple microcontrollers, actuators, and sensors, explains how it works. - Session 5: 3 coding questions in C related to state machine, bit manipulation, and memory.
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Embedded Firmware Engineer

Interviewed at Aurora Innovation

3.6
Nov 3, 2023

First round: just go through my resume. Second round: A coding question in C about memory manipulation. Third round: casual talk about my work experience. Final round: - Session 1: questions about interrupts, ARM exception model, QNX and Linux, and computer architecture. - Session 2: a coding question in C, parsing data from a stream of bytes. - Session 3: asking about my projects, interests, and some related technical concepts. - Session 4: given a physical control system including multiple microcontrollers, actuators, and sensors, explains how it works. - Session 5: 3 coding questions in C related to state machine, bit manipulation, and memory.

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