Embedded S/W Engineer At Boulder Interview Experience - Boulder, Colorado
Process
Applied and received a call within a week. Had two phone interviews and one on-site interview.
Phone Interview 1: Pretty basic C questions, including pointers and static variables.
Phone Interview 2: Basic questions on trees and linked lists. Some synchronization questions, including a multiple reader-writer question. Nothing out of the ordinary.
On-Site Interview: Since it was an embedded role, I prepared extensively on OS concepts. Sadly, nothing much was asked.
The interview focused on bits, how to handle integer overflow, and simple lock questions.
- Linked List: Insert into a sorted linked list.
- Tree: Find the common ancestor in a Binary Search Tree.
- Deadlock: A question on deadlocks and how to avoid them.
- Median of Ages: Given a file with numbers representing people's ages, find the median. Since age has a known range (0-100), I read the file and stored the numbers in an array of 100 elements.
Questions
One of my projects involved patterns of shortest distance paths. Hence, I was asked a couple of questions about graphs.
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