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Present yourself Why this role Talk about your projects what do you know about GoPro Questions related to image processing More technical questions (C/C++...): Static keyword in c++ Heap and stack Inline keyword Interrupts vector POSIX Git ..........
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Embedded Firmware

Interviewed at GoPro

4
May 6, 2021

Present yourself Why this role Talk about your projects what do you know about GoPro Questions related to image processing More technical questions (C/C++...): Static keyword in c++ Heap and stack Inline keyword Interrupts vector POSIX Git ..........

self intro microcontroller boot flow os boot flow what is interrupt what is volatile what is static keyword what is ipc mechanism(what are they) toggle bit real time scenarios for pipe message queue and sharedmemory mutex and semaphore difference what is kernel moudle what is insmod what is modprobe in uboot level what modifications u done in yocto u worked how to do menuconfig mutex and sempahore realtime scenario how u will check module loaded or not what is device tree device tree (example given) and ask their properites how u done in ur project(project realted dts)| what is sysfs how communication happing blw user space and kernel space if one module depening on other module depend(how to load) what is i2c detect (u used it) isr_handler function what happens what is /dev
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Embedded Software Engineer

Interviewed at BITSILICA

4.1
Dec 17, 2025

self intro microcontroller boot flow os boot flow what is interrupt what is volatile what is static keyword what is ipc mechanism(what are they) toggle bit real time scenarios for pipe message queue and sharedmemory mutex and semaphore difference what is kernel moudle what is insmod what is modprobe in uboot level what modifications u done in yocto u worked how to do menuconfig mutex and sempahore realtime scenario how u will check module loaded or not what is device tree device tree (example given) and ask their properites how u done in ur project(project realted dts)| what is sysfs how communication happing blw user space and kernel space if one module depening on other module depend(how to load) what is i2c detect (u used it) isr_handler function what happens what is /dev

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