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Another round after a week of constantly asking about the coding assessment , to discuss my efforts and outlook on how I developed that assessment which made me wait for another week and then another week while they interviewed other candidates
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Staff Engineer

Interviewed at SolarReviews

3.5
Aug 16, 2022

Another round after a week of constantly asking about the coding assessment , to discuss my efforts and outlook on how I developed that assessment which made me wait for another week and then another week while they interviewed other candidates

algo, hw questions (how to wire), drivers, embedded system, OS, linux system programming, multi-thread programming, L2, L3, QoS, network stack. HW schematic and bus protocol, even write a piece of code of linux kernel. Some behavior questions.
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Senior Staff Engineer

Interviewed at Palo Alto Networks

3.7
Sep 28, 2017

algo, hw questions (how to wire), drivers, embedded system, OS, linux system programming, multi-thread programming, L2, L3, QoS, network stack. HW schematic and bus protocol, even write a piece of code of linux kernel. Some behavior questions.

The most challenging (and interesting) question was about a strategy for finding signal in a noisy and poorly understood data set. Asking a software engineer a data science question really stretches the mental muscles.
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Intuit

4.2
Jul 17, 2011

The most challenging (and interesting) question was about a strategy for finding signal in a noisy and poorly understood data set. Asking a software engineer a data science question really stretches the mental muscles.

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