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I interviewed at Samsung Electronics (New York, NY)
Interview
Initial rounds were just meeting with the recruiting rep followed by phone interviews with the team I was interviewing with. Final rounds was in a room with 4 other Samsung men.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
During final founds they each had a folder with my profile and photo and asked basic questions like, "what hobbies do you have?", "how will you meet other people?", "how will you adapt to Korean culture?".
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Samsung Electronics (Hyderabad) in Mar 2012
Interview
Written test for C 30 mins , Face to face for 30 mins, and telephonic for 1 hour
Mainly on system software, linux kernel, Symmetric multi processing, memory management
process scheduling, malloc, mmap, anonymous memory
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Question 1
C questions, Memory management - process address space, linux runqueue, run levels, malloc, mmap, debugging tools, cpu affinity
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Samsung Electronics (Paris) in Nov 2012
Interview
Applied on company website and after they flew me from Barcelona where I was studying my masters to France to have the first non - virtual interview. A few weeks later I received an email scheduling the 3rd and last part of the process consisting of a Skype interview with some senior management.
They answered positively after a few weeks and I accepted the job. After accepting they took 5 months and more than 7 emails from my side to send the contract.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Be ready and prepared to answer a lot of questions about Korea, why you want to live there? are you willing to learn the language? what do you know about Korean culture?