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      Senior Associate Engineer, Product Software Interview

      8 Aug 2022
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
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      I applied online. I interviewed at Caterpillar in Feb 2022

      Interview

      TEchnical Interview asked about basics of C and Emended systems. Depends upon the Team that you are going to work with. More important questions on the Automotive protocols j1939 and CAN Knowledge on the Python scripting is always an additonal benefits

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1) How do you read the read and set the value in a memory location directly?? 2) Const* volatile and volatile *const difference ?? 3) Question is string usage (said don’t know) 4) Create a 2d dynamic array using malloc function 5) Return an array of function pointer, array of Pointers , return a function pointer( More question on function pointers by changing the syntax and expected output) 6) Dynamic linked list creation 7) Push all the members of linkedlist in using an array ( No traditional method) 8) Detect loop in the list (practical usage) 9) Best sorting algorithm and implement them using linked list? 10) Implement merge or quick sort using linked list 11) Implement stack using array or linked list ( a lot of questions by changing the pointer usage) 12) What is structure Padding?? Have you used in any of your code ?? RTOS: Difference between mutex and semaphore (practical experience in RTOS development) Real time issues with mutex Priority ceiling protocol Priority inversion What is spinlock , how do you resolve that to communicate with the multicore ( as resume has multicore) Scheduling algorithm used in your project and why you used that?? Did you designed or modified any schedulers on your own ?? How is the work experience on Cache ? Have you ever invalidated a cache memory ? How cache is used in the Multicore systems?? Complete I/o processing using the HAL peripherals ?? (sensor ->ADC->dma-> SPI-> solenoid) Bitwise operation optimisation Re-entrant function
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