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Some basic questions/tasks about C programming (pointers, arrays..), design task for receiving data bytes from the transmitter (C programming), Asked to explain different parts of some old SOC configuration. For people studying only Electronics I would suggest going through Software Engineering lectures from other courses to know about how memory is managed in a SOC and CPU. Ideally read about the Architecture of CPU and Microcontrollers as I was asked this in all 3 Interviews with ARM. I only studied Electronics and had no courses related to this except when we briefly looked into simple microcontrollers without going into detail so it was good decision going through Software Engineering course notes before the interview.

Some basic questions/tasks about C programming (pointers, arrays..), design task for receiving data bytes from the transmitter (C programming), Asked to explain different parts of some old SOC configuration. For people studying only Electronics I would suggest going through Software Engineering lectures from other courses to know about how memory is managed in a SOC and CPU. Ideally read about the Architecture of CPU and Microcontrollers as I was asked this in all 3 Interviews with ARM. I only studied Electronics and had no courses related to this except when we briefly looked into simple microcontrollers without going into detail so it was good decision going through Software Engineering course notes before the interview.

What is IPC? What is RPC? (this was great, the interviewer had an accent so I was confused with the previous question) Questions about linux kernel such as difference between block device vs character device what is volatile keyword? what is static keyword? what do you want to do? what is an interrupt? how to handle interrupt?
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Software Engineer Embedded Systems

Interviewed at Cisco

4.1
Jun 25, 2021

What is IPC? What is RPC? (this was great, the interviewer had an accent so I was confused with the previous question) Questions about linux kernel such as difference between block device vs character device what is volatile keyword? what is static keyword? what do you want to do? what is an interrupt? how to handle interrupt?

The first part of the interview was about the projects I worked in before. They were particularly interested in the methodologies that were used during the development of those projects.I was asked if I was familiar with the SDLC and developing in teams using version control software. They also asked if I knew about car diagnostic tools. The second part of the Interview was about my knowledge of the c language, some of the questions asked were: -Code a function that prints a "Fizz Buzz" game using all the integers from 1 to 100 with only the stdio library -The size of pointer in memory. -The size of an initialized struct. -The difference between Structures, Unions, and Enumerated Types.
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Embedded Systems Software Developer

Interviewed at Robert Bosch

4.1
Oct 29, 2018

The first part of the interview was about the projects I worked in before. They were particularly interested in the methodologies that were used during the development of those projects.I was asked if I was familiar with the SDLC and developing in teams using version control software. They also asked if I knew about car diagnostic tools. The second part of the Interview was about my knowledge of the c language, some of the questions asked were: -Code a function that prints a "Fizz Buzz" game using all the integers from 1 to 100 with only the stdio library -The size of pointer in memory. -The size of an initialized struct. -The difference between Structures, Unions, and Enumerated Types.

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