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All the questions were technical. If I had just graduated from college, I would have been better prepared. So I asked if I could talk about some of my collaborative and successful experiences but the interviewer didn't want to be bothered with that.
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Senior Firmware Engineer

Interviewed at SanDisk

3.4
Dec 23, 2015

All the questions were technical. If I had just graduated from college, I would have been better prepared. So I asked if I could talk about some of my collaborative and successful experiences but the interviewer didn't want to be bothered with that.

Simple embedded systems questions. New SW engineer as a manager for a new FW group and spent 15 minutes debating why FW and SW are different. The manager said they are the same and I disagree as any rea FW guy knows. This was a waste of time and quickly showed the persona of the manager. He then asked if a remote control (IR) is a FW or SW if it had a display since I generalized that FW works and I/F with HW and SW is more for user interface. Really?
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Firmware Engineer

Interviewed at Anduril

4
May 5, 2022

Simple embedded systems questions. New SW engineer as a manager for a new FW group and spent 15 minutes debating why FW and SW are different. The manager said they are the same and I disagree as any rea FW guy knows. This was a waste of time and quickly showed the persona of the manager. He then asked if a remote control (IR) is a FW or SW if it had a display since I generalized that FW works and I/F with HW and SW is more for user interface. Really?

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