Arm interview questions

I got a call from the HR through linkedin on a friday. She told interview was scheduled the next day. Interview took place in April in ARM office. The process started in the morning at 9 AM. There was a technical written test which comprised of C, OOPs and linux. Around 60 guys appeared for this and 20 got qualified to the next round. There was no elimination round after that. There were 2 technical interview rounds, 1 HR round and 1 hiring manager round. The technical rounds were mostly about C, C++, puzzles etc. HR and HM round were mostly behavioral, project work, salary expectation etc. All the rounds were finished around 6 PM and we left the office. We were supposed to get a call the next week as there were different panels who took the interview and they were supposed to share their feedback later. The first technical interview took about an hour. All other interviews were around half an hour. The questions were relatively easy.The overall experience was good.

The interviews followed a standard pattern: - Phone discussion with a recruiter: The focus was on general career interests and goals. Along with how those interests and goals might align with the given job. - Phone discussion with the hiring manager: This time the discussion focused on the job itself and how that might align with my career interests and goals. This was the first chance for me to dig deep with questions about the job to make sure I was interested. This part of the process usually determines if I'm interested or not in the job. In this case, it turned my interest up. - Onsite interview: A series of 1hr interviews. There were 5 of them if I remember right. I also had lunch with the hiring manager. Each interviewer focused on a different area. For example, one focused on general SoC architecture, another on software, another on debug, another on my previous projects and how I dealt with challenges, etc. etc. My impression was that they were more concerned with how I walked through and thought about different problems that were presented to me, and also if I have a solid history of good performance. Not so much on if I answered everything 100% accurately. Though, I'm sure I answer most of everything right. There wasn't much overlap between the interviewers which means they actually prepared an interview strategy. That's a good thing, I've been in interviews where I would end up answering the same exact question 5 times from 5 different people! Last, the interviews were very conversational, it didn't feel like an interrogation. I was also allowed plenty of time to ask my own questions. My impressions were very positive. In the past I've walked out interviews thinking "Wow, those folks were disorganized and didn't seem to know what job I was interviewing for...." I didn't have that feeling here.