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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

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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?

They asked some more or less classic threading questions focused on how to predict and preempt deadlock. The bottomline: understand how threads and mutexes work (in C++) and be able to read code directly and reason about it aloud.

Firmware Engineer

Interviewed at Position Imaging

5
May 15, 2023

They asked some more or less classic threading questions focused on how to predict and preempt deadlock. The bottomline: understand how threads and mutexes work (in C++) and be able to read code directly and reason about it aloud.

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