Embedded Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Nest with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 40.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Embedded Software Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Nest overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Nest as a Embedded Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Presentation: 17%
Group panel interview: 17%
Background check: 17%
Skills test: 17%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Nest in Apr 2017
Interview
HR reached out to me after I had applied online to set up a technical interview. Interview was scheduled for 45 minutes. The interviewer told me about the company and its products and what his job looked like . He then started with tell me about yourself? Then some questions with respect to my projects, some questions on C and experience followed by a coding round where I had to correct a part of code and also write a code from scratch. Both were based on pointers. I was pretty bad at pointers at that time, couldn't nail it! Got a rejection after 2 days, which was as I had expected.
C questions: dangling pointer, why and where are void pointers used
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Nest (Palo Alto, CA) in Jul 2015
Interview
Started from Phone Screen, then in person technical interview (5 people) and second in person with hiring manager, PM and other group representatives (3). The interview was very well organized and interviewers were friendly and supportive. No "underwater traps".
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- finite-state machine
- memory allocation by given multiplicity factor
- coding standards and limitations for embedded RT systems
- OTA updates - risks and techniques
- byte-stream parsing