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International Trucks
Entry Level Product Development Engineer was asked...April 14, 2011

Tell me about a decision you made that was wrong, what did you do to fix it?

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Pick something small but avoid technical errors like "I forgot how to calculate torque but then I looked it up and remembered" Less

Applied Medical

Why Applied Medical?

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Vertical integration.

Then go somewhere where you think you'll be appreciated. I certainly don't appreciate you now. Less

Because I like to be underpaid, under appreciated, micromanaged and and work for family members of the CEO Less

SanDisk

how does serial data interface work.

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It's essential to demonstrate that you can really go deep... there are plenty of followup questions and (sometimes tangential) angles to explore. There's a lot of Product Development Engineer experts who've worked at Sandisk, who provide this sort of practice through mock interviews. There's a whole list of them curated on Prepfully. prepfully.com/practice-interviews Less

Explained about serial data bus and serial clock signal.

Phenom

Javascript, Data structure, System design

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I have answered most of the question with accuracy.

Exact same thing happened with me too. They say the company builds products that makes hiring process easier but the management itself do not know how to handle job applicants and acts like smart deceivers. I had 3 interviews and all of the interviewers said they were impressed. In the end after they asked me to send all of the documents to release the offer letter and didn't contact me again. I was badly ghosted and didn't get any response till now from the company even though I was bugging them relentlessly. All of this is a complete waste of time for applicants and leaves us vexed with a really bad opinion about the company. Less

Intel Corporation

Draw a CMOS inverter schematic

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I drew Vin + NMOS, PMOS in parallel + Vout

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Intel Corporation

Techincal: Memories, digital logic, computer architecture, C++/Python/Perl coding ( just the logic mainly)

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Logical: Puzzles, Statistical: Analysis of graphs or data

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Comviva

Write pseudocode to swap two numbers without third variable .

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solution is to use the XOR method (addition method will cause integer overflow for big values) a = a ^ b b = a ^ b a = a ^ b Less

STEP 1: START. STEP 2: ENTER x, y. STEP 3: PRINT x, y. STEP 4: x = x + y. STEP 5: y= x - y. STEP 6: x =x - y. STEP 7: PRINT x, y. STEP 8: END. Less

Intel Corporation

I have two glasses of 3 ounces and 5 ounces. Give me 4 ounces of liquid

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Pour liquid to make both glasses equal?

5oz glass =A, 3oz glass = B. Fill up A, and pour into B. You'll have 2oz left in A. Drain B, pour that 2oz in B. Fill up A again, and pour to fill that remaining 1oz in B. You'll have 5oz-1oz =4oz in A. Less

Intel Corporation

You're trapped in a room with 3 switches for 10 minutes. There are 3 light bulbs outside the room , but you don't know which switch corresponds to which light bulb. What do you do in the 10 minutes you're in the room to figure out which switch corresponds to which light bulb when you walk out?

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turn on two switches for 10 minutes and leave one off. Then, right before you leave turn off another one so that one switch is up and the other 2 are down. Obviously the on light bulb corresponds to the high switch. The off but still warm light bulb corresponds to the switch that was just turned off. The other off bulb corresponds to the other switch Less

Or, turn on 1 switch for 10 minutes, just before leaving turn it off and turn on the second switch and exit. first switch - the bulb that is off but warm. second - bulb that is on third - cold and off Less

Fujitsu

Good questions like :- can we have 2 main methods in class?? what does onl0ad specify??

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All answers were correct .

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