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      Software Engineer Embedded Systems Interview

      25 Jun 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in May 2021

      Interview

      30 min video call with engineer 3 30 min video calls with other engineers ghosted on result Questions about my experience Lot's of technical questions in the format of "do you know this?" Seemed like an ineffective and lazy method to determine the candidate's knowledge and potential. One of the interviews went on for 1 hour for some reason. Ironically, no coding questions.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      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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