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Q1 -10: Standard Mechanical Design and material questions. Q11: Tell about a time you had a to deal with a difficult coworker or manager. Q12: Tell about a time you made a mistake and what did you learn from it. Q13: Explain your most complex system you have ever designed from cradle to grave. Your contribution and every technical tool you used and what problem did it solved. Q14: Tell me about a complex problem, tool, team interaction and your contribution to the solution. Q15: Tell the hardest decision you have made "non-technical"
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Senior Hardware Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4★
Jun 2, 2022

Q1 -10: Standard Mechanical Design and material questions. Q11: Tell about a time you had a to deal with a difficult coworker or manager. Q12: Tell about a time you made a mistake and what did you learn from it. Q13: Explain your most complex system you have ever designed from cradle to grave. Your contribution and every technical tool you used and what problem did it solved. Q14: Tell me about a complex problem, tool, team interaction and your contribution to the solution. Q15: Tell the hardest decision you have made "non-technical"

Basic RTL coding, digital circuits in first round and then system level and high level design questions in the next round. Both rounds asked about projects at previous companies. Questions were at system level.
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Senior Hardware Engineer

Interviewed at Happiest Minds Technologies

3.7★
Mar 25, 2022

Basic RTL coding, digital circuits in first round and then system level and high level design questions in the next round. Both rounds asked about projects at previous companies. Questions were at system level.

first person wanted to go over all the items in my resume in a rush. Then I had 3 people asking technical questions about my previous work. Went to lunch with one of the engineers. After lunch an interviewer gave me a problem to solve and we designed a system together to solve it. finally I talked to the hiring manager and he asked me to explain some of my previous work. So overall they go over the resume, ask questions about previous experience, ask basic questions about the field, ... It was a little intense --
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Senior Hardware Engineer

Interviewed at Apple

4.1★
Jan 29, 2016

first person wanted to go over all the items in my resume in a rush. Then I had 3 people asking technical questions about my previous work. Went to lunch with one of the engineers. After lunch an interviewer gave me a problem to solve and we designed a system together to solve it. finally I talked to the hiring manager and he asked me to explain some of my previous work. So overall they go over the resume, ask questions about previous experience, ask basic questions about the field, ... It was a little intense --

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