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Applications Support Engineer Interview Experience

June 1, 2014
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I discussed how my work relates to this position. Afterward, I was asked to choose my area of interest from programming languages, etc. Most of the questions were from Glassdoor, but I feel there are always two or three new questions on which they decide the selection.

Some of the questions were:

  1. Function handling
  2. Find the sampling frequency.
  3. Dot product, cross product.
  4. Z-transforms
  5. ROC
  6. Auto-correlation, cross-correlation, convolution definitions.
  7. Rank of a matrix.
  8. L'Hôpital's rule.
  9. Significance of a null pointer.
  10. FIR vs. IIR
  11. Struct vs. Union
  12. Nyquist sampling theorem.
  13. Typedef function.
  14. Difference between & and && in MATLAB.
  15. Mention one operator used as both a binary and unary operator.
  16. How to represent a vector in MATLAB.
  17. Left inverse and right inverse of a matrix.
  18. Inline function definition.
  19. Recursive function examples.
  20. What changes should be made to code to make it run faster?
  21. Characteristic equation of a matrix.
  22. How are Z-transform and Fourier transform related?
  23. How to concatenate a 3x3 matrix with a 4x3 matrix.
  24. Pass by value and pass by reference.
  25. malloc and calloc.
  26. const int a vs. #define int a.
  27. How does the spectral power density of white noise look?
  28. Fourier series.
  29. What does #include mean?
  30. Sinusoidal representation of Fourier series importance.

Questions

The sinusoidal representation of Fourier series is important.

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