After one telephonic interview, where a few background questions and some basics in C programming were asked, I was called for an on-site, face-to-face interview with the team members.

During this process, there were six one-on-one interviews with different members of the team, with the last interview being with the principal manager.

The entire process was incredible. After having interviews with numerous reputed multi-national companies, for the first time I felt like the interviewers tried their best to make me comfortable, and I think that helped me show my skills and knowledge much more elaborately.

The focus of the interview was primarily on my project work and skills I mentioned on my resume. In addition to that, I was asked about:

• Operating systems
• Computer networking (mostly on 802.11)
• C
• Data structures

There were also some questions to test my thought process through problem-solving questions.

Bit Manipulation: Setting and toggling particular bits of a number

Storage Classes in C

Best data structures for certain situations:

• Trees
• Hash tables
• Linked lists (most important)

How to check for endian-ness