DSP Firmware Engineer Wireless Modem Interview Experience - Santa Clara, California
Process
The interview started by asking me about the graduate research that I was currently doing. It then moved on to my previous work experience.
Next were technical questions regarding OFDM, wideband channels, etc.
They asked simple C questions, one algorithm question, and one puzzle-type question.
The interviewer was very professional and disciplined.
It was a very good experience, and I have received a call for an onsite interview.
Questions
Given two 32-bit numbers, how do you multiply them using 8-bit multipliers?
Given 25 red balls and 25 blue balls. Arrange them in two bowls such that when a ball is picked randomly from one of the bowls, the probability of picking a red ball is maximized.
Questions about OFDM. Questions about cyclic prefix. Questions about wideband channel. Questions about block convolution: overlap-save.
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