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The garbage man comes every Tuesday. Cherry street has 20 houses, and each house has one trash can. When the trash cans are already on the side of the road, the garbage man can pick up all cans in 15 minutes. -The city wants to bring in new technology that can cans from both sides of the street in one go. Julie usually takes her garbage cans out as soon as she hears the garbage truck at the first house. How much time would Julie have to take her trash out if the city uses this new system?
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Audio System Engineer

Interviewed at Apple

4.1★
Jun 6, 2023

The garbage man comes every Tuesday. Cherry street has 20 houses, and each house has one trash can. When the trash cans are already on the side of the road, the garbage man can pick up all cans in 15 minutes. -The city wants to bring in new technology that can cans from both sides of the street in one go. Julie usually takes her garbage cans out as soon as she hears the garbage truck at the first house. How much time would Julie have to take her trash out if the city uses this new system?

Could not share exact questions. Screen - 1 - Few simple questions on SoC/ System Power/ Thermal/ Battery Validation Screen - 2 - all the SoC/ hardware related questions - went through the pseduo code well for Linked List traversal problem statement Tech - 1 - SoC/ hardware domain and coding round Tech - 2 - all the SoC/ hardware domain related questions - went through the pseduo code well for swapping of values within an list of long int problem statement Tech - 3 - Questions on Platform Thermal Management Tech - 4 - Platform level thermal management on SW perspective Tech - 5 - System level power management flows Lead - 1 - I was informed that there is some coding skills required since small set of code changes might be required to fix things locally Lead - 2 - few tech questions was asked and I answered those in very informative manners Lead - 3 - best leadership round I have had with Senior Director Lead - 4 - though it was purely tech round on power/ thermal management flows
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System Integration Lead

Interviewed at Apple

4.1★
Jul 1, 2024

Could not share exact questions. Screen - 1 - Few simple questions on SoC/ System Power/ Thermal/ Battery Validation Screen - 2 - all the SoC/ hardware related questions - went through the pseduo code well for Linked List traversal problem statement Tech - 1 - SoC/ hardware domain and coding round Tech - 2 - all the SoC/ hardware domain related questions - went through the pseduo code well for swapping of values within an list of long int problem statement Tech - 3 - Questions on Platform Thermal Management Tech - 4 - Platform level thermal management on SW perspective Tech - 5 - System level power management flows Lead - 1 - I was informed that there is some coding skills required since small set of code changes might be required to fix things locally Lead - 2 - few tech questions was asked and I answered those in very informative manners Lead - 3 - best leadership round I have had with Senior Director Lead - 4 - though it was purely tech round on power/ thermal management flows

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