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Software Engineer Embedded Focus Interview Experience - San Diego, California

September 1, 2021
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

1st review packet parsing exercise - 2-hour limit - aced it.

2nd review: C structure packing/padding exercise, plus piecewise linear scaling coding exercise - problem here. Interviewer was Millennial, only giving me 25% of his time. The interview rules given to me were to interact with him. It was hugely distracting to interview with someone almost completely checked out of the interview and late by 8 minutes on a timed interview and testing.

People typically describe me as very good at comms, in fact a leader. This company, I feel, is garbage - or completely run by drone-type Millennials that can only understand each other. Not a fit for normal human beings.

The problems themselves were not hard. The interviewer made it hard. Not a good sign for the company.

At one point, I had to raise my voice because the guy was just not even listening to what I was saying when I was asking a clarification question.

The inattention thing goes like this: "Is it okay to use an assert when I run into a boundary condition here?" On his side: crickets, watching his head, looking at some other screen, and he's typing away. "Excuse me, can I use an assert here?" Again, guy totally not paying attention. "HEY GUY, can I use an assert here! Are you listening to me?"

I think this company is a joke on people trying to find a real job. I hope it crashes and burns.

Questions

Packet parsing. Structure padding. Piecewise linear scaling.

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