Iot Engineer Interview Questions

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Describe a previous IOT project you have worked on. What were the project's objectives, and how did you contribute to its success? How do you approach security in the realm of IOT? Provide an example of a security measure you implemented in an IOT project to safeguard sensitive data or prevent potential attacks.
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IOT Engineer

Interviewed at Rockwell Automation

3.7
Jul 19, 2023

Describe a previous IOT project you have worked on. What were the project's objectives, and how did you contribute to its success? How do you approach security in the realm of IOT? Provide an example of a security measure you implemented in an IOT project to safeguard sensitive data or prevent potential attacks.

Education In high school, how did you fare in mathematics and physical sciences? Which were your strongest subjects in the hard sciences, and how did you rank in your class? In high school, what leadership roles did you take on? What courses and university did you choose, and why? How did you rank competitively in university? Which were your strongest courses, and which did you enjoy the most? In high school and at university, describe any achievements considered exceptional by colleagues and staff. Career development How would you describe your experience as a professional software engineer? Describe your skill in your preferred development language, and how you attained it. What are your strengths as a software engineer? What is your proudest success as an engineer? Describe your customer-facing experience. Experience Describe your level of experience as a user & developer on Linux. Describe your experience with Linux kernel development and debugging. Describe your experience of low-level boot processes and BIOS / firmware. How do you address software performance in your software engineering practice? How do you prefer to drive documentation for your products? How do you think about quality in your software products? Describe a case where it was very difficult to test code you were writing, but you found a reliable way to do it. If available, provide links to your public source code repositories What would you like to achieve in your career and skills development? Context Are you involved in open source software? Describe any significant contributions to open source (with links where possible) What do you think are the key ingredients of a successful open source project? Why do you most want to work for Canonical? Which other companies are building the sort of products you would like to work on? What do you think Canonical needs to improve in its engineering and products? Who do you think are key competitors to Canonical? How do you think Canonical should plan to win that race?
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Senior Ubuntu Embedded IoT System Engineer

Interviewed at Canonical

3.2
Jan 10, 2024

Education In high school, how did you fare in mathematics and physical sciences? Which were your strongest subjects in the hard sciences, and how did you rank in your class? In high school, what leadership roles did you take on? What courses and university did you choose, and why? How did you rank competitively in university? Which were your strongest courses, and which did you enjoy the most? In high school and at university, describe any achievements considered exceptional by colleagues and staff. Career development How would you describe your experience as a professional software engineer? Describe your skill in your preferred development language, and how you attained it. What are your strengths as a software engineer? What is your proudest success as an engineer? Describe your customer-facing experience. Experience Describe your level of experience as a user & developer on Linux. Describe your experience with Linux kernel development and debugging. Describe your experience of low-level boot processes and BIOS / firmware. How do you address software performance in your software engineering practice? How do you prefer to drive documentation for your products? How do you think about quality in your software products? Describe a case where it was very difficult to test code you were writing, but you found a reliable way to do it. If available, provide links to your public source code repositories What would you like to achieve in your career and skills development? Context Are you involved in open source software? Describe any significant contributions to open source (with links where possible) What do you think are the key ingredients of a successful open source project? Why do you most want to work for Canonical? Which other companies are building the sort of products you would like to work on? What do you think Canonical needs to improve in its engineering and products? Who do you think are key competitors to Canonical? How do you think Canonical should plan to win that race?

They all asked me about the internship I had with HPE but with a different division. Some of them asked me what I liked doing during my free time. A lot of them admired that I had some programming skills. One of them asked about my humility saying, "I know that you're in grad school right now and some grad students expect to do all of the engineering work but how comfortable would you feel if we had to give you some grunt work?" Another one asked me to go up on the board and draw the important parts of computer architecture and to provide an example for each important part. A lot of them asked me about my senior design project. A lot of them asked me about a time where I had a project and things weren't going the way I wanted to. Some of them asked me what they believe my weaknesses are and what my strengths are. The hiring manager asked me some questions during our lunch and he just asked me about my experience with VHDL programming and we talked a lot about some technical stuff. One of them asked me where I saw myself in five years. Some of them asked me why I studied electrical engineering and where my influence came from. Most of them explained to me what this team did and how everyone practically does everything not they're not limited to being a software engineer or a hardware engineer or a mechanical engineer, etc. One of them gave me a brief tour of their labs. Each person I interviewed with was a 1 on 1 in the same room. The room had some hardware inside. And some of them talked about the hardware they were working on. I managed to show my knowledge and I was able to point out a few things within the hardware that common within all electronics (they never asked me anything about their hardware because they didn't expect me to know their products). The interviews were pretty easy and there weren't any questions where I had to really think about. I knew how to answer each question right away and I was given a lot of time to explain my senior project and some of the questions they asked me. My advice is to bring some water because you will be talking a lot. These interviews are not meant to trick you nor make you unwelcome or feel dumb. Remember that the reason why you have an interview in the first place is that they believe that you're potentially a good fit for the team.
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Hardware IoT (Junior) Engineer

Interviewed at Hewlett Packard Enterprise | HPE

4
Apr 5, 2018

They all asked me about the internship I had with HPE but with a different division. Some of them asked me what I liked doing during my free time. A lot of them admired that I had some programming skills. One of them asked about my humility saying, "I know that you're in grad school right now and some grad students expect to do all of the engineering work but how comfortable would you feel if we had to give you some grunt work?" Another one asked me to go up on the board and draw the important parts of computer architecture and to provide an example for each important part. A lot of them asked me about my senior design project. A lot of them asked me about a time where I had a project and things weren't going the way I wanted to. Some of them asked me what they believe my weaknesses are and what my strengths are. The hiring manager asked me some questions during our lunch and he just asked me about my experience with VHDL programming and we talked a lot about some technical stuff. One of them asked me where I saw myself in five years. Some of them asked me why I studied electrical engineering and where my influence came from. Most of them explained to me what this team did and how everyone practically does everything not they're not limited to being a software engineer or a hardware engineer or a mechanical engineer, etc. One of them gave me a brief tour of their labs. Each person I interviewed with was a 1 on 1 in the same room. The room had some hardware inside. And some of them talked about the hardware they were working on. I managed to show my knowledge and I was able to point out a few things within the hardware that common within all electronics (they never asked me anything about their hardware because they didn't expect me to know their products). The interviews were pretty easy and there weren't any questions where I had to really think about. I knew how to answer each question right away and I was given a lot of time to explain my senior project and some of the questions they asked me. My advice is to bring some water because you will be talking a lot. These interviews are not meant to trick you nor make you unwelcome or feel dumb. Remember that the reason why you have an interview in the first place is that they believe that you're potentially a good fit for the team.

Most of us, at one time or another have felt frustrated when dealing with customers. Can you tell me about a time when you felt this way and how you dealt with it? When do you think it is appropriate to push back or say no to an unreasonable customer request?
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Global Head, IoT

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Mar 25, 2018

Most of us, at one time or another have felt frustrated when dealing with customers. Can you tell me about a time when you felt this way and how you dealt with it? When do you think it is appropriate to push back or say no to an unreasonable customer request?

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