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I had worked for around two years for Dell. The company is very good both Salary and other benefits. Interview was on Unix, Oracle,Autosys 1. Differences between Procedure and functions With examples Write the procedure and function 2. Cursor details 3. Unix awl command,Sed command and vi-editor , vmstat, netstat command .Core dump, hidden files, process , zombie 4. Autosys process Onice & off ice difference. 5Aurosys send event commands
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Sr. Software Engineer

Interviewed at Dell Technologies

3.7
May 25, 2017

I had worked for around two years for Dell. The company is very good both Salary and other benefits. Interview was on Unix, Oracle,Autosys 1. Differences between Procedure and functions With examples Write the procedure and function 2. Cursor details 3. Unix awl command,Sed command and vi-editor , vmstat, netstat command .Core dump, hidden files, process , zombie 4. Autosys process Onice & off ice difference. 5Aurosys send event commands

- What criteria would you use when choosing an MCU for a project? - What means of saving power in an MCU-controlled board do you know? - Draw a block diagram of an MCU. What's MPU is for. What's the difference between MPU and MMU. - What happens after power up and before main() is entered, what has to be done? - Write an in-memory string reversal function (byte-wise and word-wise). - Describe how would you write a program that transfers bytes from UART to Ethernet (UDP) and blinks a LED, provided there are some API functions. - What API would you create for working with a DMA controller? - What is 'undefined behavior' in terms of C language standard. - What for is the 'volatile' keyword. - What is your best trait? - What are your 5 worst traits? - Why do you want to work for ARM? - Why you are the one? - If you don't agree with your immediate boss on some technical decision, how would you address that? - Have you ever shouted at anyone at work? Some other questions as well, don't remember them all.
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Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Interviewed at Arm

4.5
Jul 21, 2016

- What criteria would you use when choosing an MCU for a project? - What means of saving power in an MCU-controlled board do you know? - Draw a block diagram of an MCU. What's MPU is for. What's the difference between MPU and MMU. - What happens after power up and before main() is entered, what has to be done? - Write an in-memory string reversal function (byte-wise and word-wise). - Describe how would you write a program that transfers bytes from UART to Ethernet (UDP) and blinks a LED, provided there are some API functions. - What API would you create for working with a DMA controller? - What is 'undefined behavior' in terms of C language standard. - What for is the 'volatile' keyword. - What is your best trait? - What are your 5 worst traits? - Why do you want to work for ARM? - Why you are the one? - If you don't agree with your immediate boss on some technical decision, how would you address that? - Have you ever shouted at anyone at work? Some other questions as well, don't remember them all.

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