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The technical interview can be tough if you don't have a solid electrical engineering background. Asked me questions such as given a battery and two wires how can you find the capacitance of the battery? Difference between heap and stack? What do you know about I^2C protocol? and other similar questions. I was surprised the questions were so difficult considering it was an entry level position.
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Embedded Firmware Engineer

Interviewed at Second Order Effects

4.5
May 5, 2023

The technical interview can be tough if you don't have a solid electrical engineering background. Asked me questions such as given a battery and two wires how can you find the capacitance of the battery? Difference between heap and stack? What do you know about I^2C protocol? and other similar questions. I was surprised the questions were so difficult considering it was an entry level position.

1. Bat, ball, car, tires, apples, oranges, tea, coffee, people, rooms, train, bus, city, candles .. i.e, puzzles - you name it, I got the puzzle. Several of them 2. I was asked to implement a specific component of operating system in 25 minutes without any assistance or guidance whatsoever. At the beginning when stating the requirements, the interviewer made sure there were no assumptions or exceptions and asked me to write a full-fledged component in that time.
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Firmware Engineer

Interviewed at WD

3.7
Dec 9, 2020

1. Bat, ball, car, tires, apples, oranges, tea, coffee, people, rooms, train, bus, city, candles .. i.e, puzzles - you name it, I got the puzzle. Several of them 2. I was asked to implement a specific component of operating system in 25 minutes without any assistance or guidance whatsoever. At the beginning when stating the requirements, the interviewer made sure there were no assumptions or exceptions and asked me to write a full-fledged component in that time.

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