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Updated Nov 10, 2011 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Engineering Manager at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Nov 10, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Bucharest (Romania) (took 4+ weeks)
I attended 3 interviews in this period. First one was conducted by a HR representative and consisted in situational questions ("what would you do if..." kind of questions). The second one was a phone call with the functional manager who presented the department and asked about my experience. The last one was on-site with the same manager, who asked about the same questions as during the phone interview. After one month, they offered me a different position than the one I had applied for. As a consequence I declined their offer.
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Reason for Declining
There was no increase in the position nor in the salary, compared with the current work place.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Personality Test.
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Software Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Nov 4, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Bucharest (Romania) (took 3 weeks)
Sent mail to HR department and was contacted the next week by the HR department.
There were 2 interviews. A technical one and a HR one. On the third call they presented me their offer.
1. The first interview covered C language questions, Linux basics networking and assembly language questions.
a. C questions:
- how to declare a pointer to an array of pointers to functions that take a char as argument and return an int
- what does 'volatile' keyword mean
- how can you use a variable declared in another file
- what is the difference between a function and a macro
b. Networking
- what are the OSI layers
- what are 802 802.11 and 802.15 groups
- wireless networks basics
c. Linux questions:
- what is crontab
- what is inittab
2. The second interview with HR consisted of a background check and personality questions.
Interview Questions
Reason for Declining
Got a better counter-offer from my current employer
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Technical Program Manager at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Nov 4, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Tempe, AZ (took a day)
Very quick interview process - one phone screen and then a 3 hour 3 person interview. In the end, the hiring manager relied on his perceptions from the interview and feedback from many employees in the company that had worked with me before.
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Negotiation Details
Company was pretty creative with job offer, but not willing to negotiate
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Product Marketing Manager at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Nov 3, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 (took 5 days)
Hiring manager reached out to me via email to establish interest. Internal Recruiter made contact to arrange interview logistics. On-site interview was a series of 1:1 x 5, each lasting about an hour. The skills of the interviewers varied. Except for one obviously behavioral interview, the tone was overwhelmingly congenial. Questions were direct. My sense was emphasis was placed on cultural fit. Offer was promptly received.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Embedded Software V&V Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Sep 30, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Tempe, AZ (took a day)
Initial phone interview involved just a quick walk through of the resume to make sure the profile matches with the job requirement, then next day, i had technical interview for about 35 minutes. Questions consisted of embedded concepts like shared memory, message queues, semaphores, global memory, address spacing, memory maps, flash programming, Interrupt service routine programming, RTOS, wireless network setup, hardware used, serial protocol interface, i2c, uart etc..
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Sep 9, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 (took a day)
The interviewers are very kind. It's like talking with other people other than an interview The questions are now hard but require background or corresponding experience in the field. Though the questions are basic, you need to have a solid foundation of the field so that you can answer it completely to meet the requirement.
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Other Details
I Applied Online.
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NVM Project Leader at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Sep 7, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 (took 1 week)
Just some general questions like timing, coding and architecture.
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Reason for Declining
The offer is not as good as expected
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Marketing Communications Manager at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Aug 29, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 (took 2 days)
Interview experience with Freescale was very frustrating and amateurish. Was referred by someone in upper-middle management for a like position in marketing. Usual screening phone interview, then invited to face-to-face with two people. From the onset the interview was quite shallow and seemed to me to dwell mostly on internal politics and hierarchy as opposed to what the position requirements, expectations and opportunities were. When I probed for information about the actual responsibilities and processes, I would get a very general, superficial response that could be about almost any job. Didn't get the job and found out later that the two people who interviewed me had major issues (jealousy!) with the person who referred me. So a waste of time all around and no way of trying again because these people were major players in marketing. Win some, lose more sometimes!
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Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Aug 6, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 (took a day)
The interviewer was friendly and they were willing to give the position.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Design Verification Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Jul 26, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 (took 4 weeks)
First, I was called by the Team manager and was asked basic questions on Analog Blocks' functionality like ADC, DAC and LDO.
After that they called me for F2F interview in which they asked me basics of MOS operation, interviewer had drawn some circuits like Level-Shifter and asked me to find what makes the circuitry cause leakage or not working.
Interview Questions
Reason for Declining
Salary was less
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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