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No Offer – Interviewed in Kansas, AL May 2009 – Reviewed Oct 12, 2009
Interview Details – first phone, then on site, three round, technical Q
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No Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2009 – Reviewed Oct 8, 2009
Interview Details – Group interview with technical leads asking various medium difficulty questions for the first interview. Then was invited back for a second interview, this consisted of a panel interview with the development managers. These were more personality based questions regarding how you would react in certain situations type questions.
Interview Question – What would you do if a coworker was not pulling their weight? View Answers (2)
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Declined Offer – Interviewed in Kansas City, MO Aug 2008 – Reviewed Sep 17, 2009
Interview Details – The questions mainly focused on C/C++ Programing and the projects at an previous internship.
Interview Question – What is an abstract class? View Answer
Reason for Declining – offer declined
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No Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2009 – Reviewed Mar 19, 2009
Interview Details – First round was telephonic interview which was mostly based on questions on resume related stuffs and lot of Non-technical questions. e.g. Conflict management with supervisor, team members, why you have opted Computer/IT for Post Graduation etc?
Interview Question – what would you like to change in your career if you are given power to do so? View Answer
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Declined Offer – Interviewed in Sep 2012 – Reviewed Nov 6, 2012
Interview Details – I gave my resume to some Garmin associates at a career fair at my university, and later that night I received a phone call to set up an on campus interview. The interview consisted of two 30 minute sessions, first with a software engineer and then with someone from human resources. The software engineer went over my resume and asked general questions for the majority and then gave me a piece of code to look at towards the end. The human resources part consisted of general interview questions; nothing rigorous. About a week later I received a phone call with a internship offer.
Interview Question – I was asked to look at some C code and describe what it did. Then, I was asked to describe three ways in which the code could be improved. Answer Question
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Accepted Offer – Reviewed Sep 13, 2012
Interview Details – Randomly contacted by phone after a recruiter found my resume in a jobs database. 2 interviews, both by phone. One with the recruiter as a pre screen, then one with 2 engineers in the office. Everyone was very nice.
Interview Question – How much do you expect to make at this job? Answer Question
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No Offer – Reviewed Sep 1, 2012
Interview Details – Submitted my resume through their website. A few weeks later I was called to schedule a behavioral and very light technical interview.
Interview Question – 95% behavioral with only a few technical questions. What is a mutex? View Answer
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No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2012 – Reviewed Apr 24, 2012
Interview Details – Applied online, then phone interview and an onsite call. Met with 3 different groups basics of C, pointers, binary tree, compression algorithm, routing. Did not perform well. In a week received reject mail.
Interview Question – function overloading, overriding, binary tree coding, multithreading, semaphore, mutex, pointers, double pointers, compression logic Answer Question
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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Nov 2009 – Reviewed Jun 26, 2011
Interview Details –
It is a very standard interview, questions were based on
1. previous experience and skill sets required on the job
2. few basic data structure based questions
3. Had a panel of three technical interviewers and a HR interview.
Technical Interview is a cake walk, if you would have prepared for it. Basic interview questions as would be asked on any embedded software interview. Like what is stack, heap, volatile / static variables, DMA and few questions on the hardware debuggers. They would ask for you bring a software program and explain it.
HR interview seemed to be an important one. Looking for service mentality. The challenges faced in your work environment and how you handle it.
Interview Question – Write a program to count the number of ones in a byte in the fastest manner. Answer Question
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No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2011 – Reviewed May 3, 2011
Interview Details – Interviewed with HR representative in February over the phone, just a behavioral interview. Was told that the hiring manager would be contacting me in a week. Four weeks and 4 emails later, I was finally contacted. A couple of days later I was given a technical interview, and again was told I would hear something within a week or two. Another 4 weeks, 4 emails, and a phone call later, the HR rep finally emailed me to tell me that I was not accepted. Aside from the timing issues, everyone that I dealt with was very friendly and welcoming.
Interview Question – Does Java support multiple inheritance? Is there a way to simulate this? View Answer
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