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3.0

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Overall Negative Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 4+ weeks)

Phone interview for 40 minutes, online IQ/behavior test a few days later. On-site interview for 4 hours a month later. Met with 2 managers and 2 engineers. Asked about C, Linux, Satcom. They showed me some C programs and asked me what was wrong with it, and then written C test. The managers and engineers seem nice to work with. HR is unreasonable. Got the offer the next day. The whole recruiting process looks like they are doing me a favor to make me work there.

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What is the most difficult bug you have encountered?

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Reason for Declining

This company is cheap even on little things. The recruiter is not willing to make any concessions. Offer is below par. Health insurance is extremely bad. No sign-on and relocation is only 3000$ lump-sum.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Nov 2008 in Denver, CO (took a day)

I was called for an on-site interview. I was interviewed by 2 engineers for the Software Engineering position. I was asked some puzzle type question, eg. If there are 13 identical looking balls, and all except for one weigh the same, how will you tell which one? I was also asked some basic C programming questions. Mostly data structures and thread related.

Interview Questions

After the interviewers introduced themselves, they asked me to repeat their names.

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Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2008 (took a day)

Met with the Echostar representatives at the University Career Fair. They called up the same evening and asked me to come in for an interview the next day. I was asked questions regarding my projects in C and was also given a few puzzles to solve.

Interview Questions

In a linked list, how would you remove an element that lies somewhere in the middle?

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Other Details

I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Aug 2008 in Kharkiv (Ukraine) (took a day)

The questions were mainly on C programming language, general knowledge of RTOS, mutexes and semaphores. Most typical question is to write a function in C that would print out the number from 50 to 1. The interview was in English, but for those who don't speak English well the interviewers will switch to Russian. In general - quite an easy interview if coming prepared.

Interview Questions

What do you know about RTOS?

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Difference between mutexes and semaphores? When and why are they used?

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Negotiation Details

There is not much of negotiation. Everyone is offered the same salary and most everyone excepts the offer. I have no knowledge of cases when a candidate was offered not a standard salary rate.