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No Offer – Interviewed in Colorado Springs, CO Apr 2012 – Reviewed Feb 26, 2013

Interview Details – made a 45 min telephone interview followed by an onsite interview. Pretty basic questions during phone interview (static, volatile, OS concepts, interrupts, linked list basics, arrays, ex tern, memory alignment, how can you realize weather the stack is increasing upward or decreasing downward)

Interview Question – implement malloc without using any system call.   Answer Question

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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Milpitas, CA Apr 2010 – Reviewed Feb 2, 2013

Interview Details – I received an email to come in for an interview. The process to me seemed very casual as I had to talk to a regular employee as well as the manager. You get an introduction to what the company is about and a walk through the company.

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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Pune (India) Jul 2011 – Reviewed Jun 30, 2012

Interview Details – Hiring and Interview process is pretty simple and uncomplicated. HR is straight forward and to the point every time.

Interview Question – Basic C and Data Structures problems faced in daily programming using Big and Little Endian machine's.   Answer Question

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Declined Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2012 – Reviewed Apr 21, 2012

Interview Details – phone interview with some background test about programming skills and CS-related knowledge. And the engineer will go through your resume and ask which part is more difficult or more complicated in your previous projects. Also, describe the tasks that they need people to fill in. Overall, not too difficult questions, reasonable time for each question, describe details about what they are doing... By the way, I skipped some hardware-related questions such as logic gate...etc.

Interview Question – CS-related questions like the interrupt procedure in OS...etc.   Answer Question

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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Jul 2010 – Reviewed Sep 21, 2011

Interview Details – Couple hour interview with 2 employees. Good questions. Gave tour.

Interview Question – Describe the most difficult code that you have had to write   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – Met in the middle negotiation

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