Beautiful products, but slow innovation.
Beautiful products, but slow innovation.
- Some great engineers.
- Product focus and attention to detail.
- Work/life balance and schedule flexibility.
- Innovation is slowed down by processes and corporate conformism.
- Company seniority is very important, which sometimes discourages the best engineers from continuing to grow.
- Mostly incompetent employees stick around, switching teams. It's difficult to get fired.
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First round: Phone interview: * Talk about yourself. * Explain the advantages and disadvantages of SPI over I2C. * A programming question in C: reverse values in each column in a 2D array where each element is of 3 bytes. 2nd Round: Video Round: *
Software Development Engineer
There was one initial phone screen, which took approximately fifteen minutes. This was done by the manager of a division (I would be reporting to someone one level lower). They asked basic, high-level questions. After that, I was flown out for a ful
Software Development Engineer
I applied online and was contacted by a recruiter through email to set up a Webex session with a member of the team. The recruiter was very responsive and got it scheduled quickly. The actual interview experience was a bit odd. The instructions were
Software Development Engineer
Cupertino, California, United StatesDecember 1, 2020First round: Phone interview: * Talk about yourself. * Explain the advantages and disadvantages of SPI over I2C. * A programming question in C: reverse values in each column in a 2D array where each element is of 3 bytes. 2nd Round: Video Round: *
Software Development Engineer
Cupertino, California, United StatesOctober 1, 2008There was one initial phone screen, which took approximately fifteen minutes. This was done by the manager of a division (I would be reporting to someone one level lower). They asked basic, high-level questions. After that, I was flown out for a ful
Software Development Engineer
United StatesNovember 19, 2025I applied online and was contacted by a recruiter through email to set up a Webex session with a member of the team. The recruiter was very responsive and got it scheduled quickly. The actual interview experience was a bit odd. The instructions were
