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Applications Support Engineer Interview Experience

March 1, 2013
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Technical Interview:

Programming Concepts

  1. Recursive loops and how to exit from them?
  2. Describe the architecture of a computer or a processor.

DSP

  1. Aliasing
  2. Nyquist theorem
  3. Difference between Fourier Transform and Fourier Analysis
  4. Convolution
  5. To find the stability of a given equation
  6. z-transform of some signals
  7. DFT and FFT

Matlab

  1. Difference between a.*b and a.b
  2. How to open a file in Matlab
  3. How to concatenate two strings
  4. Difference between scripts and functions

C

  1. Difference between * and & before a variable in pointers
  2. Null pointer
  3. MALLOC
  4. typedef, ifdef & ifndef
  5. What is #define?

Math

  1. Integration and differentiation
  2. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors How to find the inverse of a matrix

Questions

Some questions in DSP were difficult.

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