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Unexpected to be able to rehearse college level circuit questions (from flip flops to electromagnetism) for a senior level design position. I thought the interview would have been more about practical engineering experience versus academia.
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Senior Hardware Engineer

Interviewed at Apple

4.1
Jun 22, 2014

Unexpected to be able to rehearse college level circuit questions (from flip flops to electromagnetism) for a senior level design position. I thought the interview would have been more about practical engineering experience versus academia.

Apple technical people are sharp and they understand their stuff or the market products very well. One of the interviewers actually asked why my company's (at that time) product is designed in that way. The question is pretty open-ended and I had given it a hard thought and explained in the technical way. At last, I asked back what did he (the interviewer) think and he said that he wasn't sure as well but it seemed my answer technically makes sense.
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Senior Hardware Systems Engineer

Interviewed at Apple

4.1
Jan 14, 2015

Apple technical people are sharp and they understand their stuff or the market products very well. One of the interviewers actually asked why my company's (at that time) product is designed in that way. The question is pretty open-ended and I had given it a hard thought and explained in the technical way. At last, I asked back what did he (the interviewer) think and he said that he wasn't sure as well but it seemed my answer technically makes sense.

The first one is a FSM for a vendor machine and the second one is about CPU pipeline, third one is the how cap and res will be for a long wire then we talked about the job and the company, the gay was nice and tried to help me with the problem I had difficulty, but I still miss one possible situation for the FSM and missed one step for the CPU pipeline. After about half a month I was told no further round, so sad.
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Hardware Engineer

Interviewed at Intel Corporation

3.9
Apr 27, 2016

The first one is a FSM for a vendor machine and the second one is about CPU pipeline, third one is the how cap and res will be for a long wire then we talked about the job and the company, the gay was nice and tried to help me with the problem I had difficulty, but I still miss one possible situation for the FSM and missed one step for the CPU pipeline. After about half a month I was told no further round, so sad.

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