Junior Embedded Software Engineer Interview Questions

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1) In which language are you comfortable with ? 2) Explain Volatile Keyword 3) Use of static variable 4) Compilation and Execution flow of C Program 5) Meaning of dangling pointer and memory leakage? 6) Structure alignment, structure padding 7) Bitwise operators 8) Difference between microcontroller and microprocessor 9) Diff between I/O Mapped I/O and Memory mapped I/O 10) Explain in brief about RS232, I2C, SPI 11) Explain watchdog timer 12) What is an interrupt in microcontroller? 13)What is OS? 14) What is System Call? how is it executed? 15)Linux ipc mechanism 16) paging 17)starvation and deadlock 18) Difference between GPOS and RTOS 19) Priority inversion 20) Jiffies ? 21) hard interrupts and soft interrupts
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Embedded Software Engineer

Interviewed at Capgemini

4.2
Jul 17, 2020

1) In which language are you comfortable with ? 2) Explain Volatile Keyword 3) Use of static variable 4) Compilation and Execution flow of C Program 5) Meaning of dangling pointer and memory leakage? 6) Structure alignment, structure padding 7) Bitwise operators 8) Difference between microcontroller and microprocessor 9) Diff between I/O Mapped I/O and Memory mapped I/O 10) Explain in brief about RS232, I2C, SPI 11) Explain watchdog timer 12) What is an interrupt in microcontroller? 13)What is OS? 14) What is System Call? how is it executed? 15)Linux ipc mechanism 16) paging 17)starvation and deadlock 18) Difference between GPOS and RTOS 19) Priority inversion 20) Jiffies ? 21) hard interrupts and soft interrupts

The questions were related to basic c++, sorting, function overloading, singleton, mutex/semaphore, deep copying etc. But the questions were not straight forward, you needed to think to come to the answer which would be one of the concepts mentioned earlier.
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Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Interviewed at Aptiv

3.7
Dec 14, 2018

The questions were related to basic c++, sorting, function overloading, singleton, mutex/semaphore, deep copying etc. But the questions were not straight forward, you needed to think to come to the answer which would be one of the concepts mentioned earlier.

Questions were asked on how you would integrate a temperature sensor and develop RTOS Questions related to C, they want little experience in Autosar Managerial round: Questions related to your work, challenges you faced, how you overcame
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Embedded Engineer

Interviewed at Robert Bosch

4.1
Dec 9, 2023

Questions were asked on how you would integrate a temperature sensor and develop RTOS Questions related to C, they want little experience in Autosar Managerial round: Questions related to your work, challenges you faced, how you overcame

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