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      Embedded Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 8, 2017
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Boulder, CO
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Boulder, CO) in Feb 2017

      Interview

      2 weeks after applying online I was contacted by the hiring manager for a technical phone screen. We went over pointers and simple function design/testing on a shared word document. 2 weeks later I went in for a full day interview at the Boulder campus. There were 13 other candidates there doing the same thing. I had (4) hour long technical interviews with different members of various teams and (1) half-hour long interview with HR. They fed us lunch and did a brief recruiting presentation. 2 weeks later they sent a generic email stating "Although we were very impressed with your background and qualifications, we are unable to offer you a position with Qualcomm at this time." Overall it seemed like they were more interested in finding book worms fresh out of school with no practical working experience than someone with actual embedded engineering experience. Make sure to study linked lists, linked lists, binary trees, and more linked lists because that is all they seem to care about!

      Interview questions [7]

      Question 1

      white board: find the first non-recurring character in a string. i.e. input "abbcdcaea" would return "d"
      3 Answers

      Question 2

      white board: find the degrees between the minute hand and hour hand when a clock is at 3:15
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      white board: implement a queue/fifo with push/pop functionality using linked lists
      Answer question

      Question 4

      white board: create a custom malloc and free function using linked lists
      Answer question

      Question 5

      white board: swap the values of two pointers without a temp variable
      3 Answers

      Question 6

      white board: write a function that determines if a given variable is a power of 2 or not
      2 Answers

      Question 7

      scheduling, context switching, memory, linked lists, linked lists, linked lists, etc.
      Answer question
      15

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