Firmware Development Engineer Interview Questions

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1) Describe the difference between a semaphore and a mutex and when you might use each. 2) when would you use an RTOS over Protothreads or Bare Metal implementation. 3) There was a software test where I had to populate functions with code to make the program print the correct results to the screen. 4) What is your best quality and worst. 5) Why did I want to come work for Alarm.com.
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Embedded Firmware Engineer

Interviewed at Alarm.com

3.7
Oct 12, 2016

1) Describe the difference between a semaphore and a mutex and when you might use each. 2) when would you use an RTOS over Protothreads or Bare Metal implementation. 3) There was a software test where I had to populate functions with code to make the program print the correct results to the screen. 4) What is your best quality and worst. 5) Why did I want to come work for Alarm.com.

I was contacted by the interviewer on time . He started with his introduction and later gave a chance to go through my resume. Asked my role in few the of the projects mentioned in the resume. then asked two twchnical questions: 1. How to generate 100MHz clock using verilog, he asked to write the code for it. 2. C program to print first 10 prime numbers. Since this was a firmware role, he mentioned how important C programming was for this role as the candidate will be working mostly with C Language
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CoSim Firmware Engineer ( Entry Level)

Interviewed at Seagate Technology

3.8
Mar 25, 2021

I was contacted by the interviewer on time . He started with his introduction and later gave a chance to go through my resume. Asked my role in few the of the projects mentioned in the resume. then asked two twchnical questions: 1. How to generate 100MHz clock using verilog, he asked to write the code for it. 2. C program to print first 10 prime numbers. Since this was a firmware role, he mentioned how important C programming was for this role as the candidate will be working mostly with C Language

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