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      Summer Placement Interview

      Dec 22, 2012
      Anonymous employee
      Cambridge, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Arm (Cambridge, England) in Dec 2012

      Interview

      I applied for a summer placement at ARM in their processor division. I received a phone call inviting me for a face-to-face interview at their Cambridge HQ. I had two interviewers, both were very friendly and relaxed both before and during the interview. I was asked some basic questions (e.g. what do you know about ARM?) and some stuff from my CV, but it moved on quickly to more technical questions which suited me perfectly. I was asked about what pipelining is, what the volatile keyword does and what the difference between the == operator and the .equals() function in Java is. I was offered a position roughly a week after the interview.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      What does the volatile keyword do?
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      Question 2

      How does out-of-order execution work and why does it improve performance?
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      Question 3

      What is pipelining?
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      Question 4

      What is the difference between the == operator and the .equals() function in Java?
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