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Senior System Software Engineer Interview Experience - Santa Clara, California

September 1, 2023
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online.

The recruiter reached out and set up a phone interview on Teams.

The interviewer was nice and polite.

The interview was moderate, except for one advanced question, so I guess I did not get the offer.

Questions

Typical icebreakers like volatile, static, etc. questions about compiler optimization.

What happens if the compiler can't store a variable in a register?

Then, the interviewer gave me a code snippet to find a bug. It was an array out-of-bounds access in a for loop.

In the last 10 minutes or so, I was asked to write malloc and free for a fixed buffer array and return an offset to the user.

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