The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Symmetricom in Jun 2010
Interview
stupid questions:
why a C structure is smaller than a Type?
what is the size of a structure? (in general? - stupid question)
why you think you are a senior programmer?
then some more rude questions that made me finish discussion early
the general feeling was that the hiring manager did the best he could to keep candidates away from his chair
how come people like these ever become hiring managers?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Symmetricom (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2013
Interview
1-2 Technical Phone Interviews, An all day face to face with 5-6 different people. Face to face HR at the end.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Not too much difficult. Will test your confidence thoroughly with the achievements you have had in the past. Couple of them got questions. One of them was thorough enough to have markd everythign in the resume and ask about it.
Phone interview followed by on-site interview. Questions on C programming - finer details like bit manipulation, dynamic memory allocation, pointers etc. Was asked to write code for a very simple problem. Although solution was not difficult, interviewee is expected to think about worst case run times, cases where an exception will be thrown or result might not be computed correctly, and address them in the code.
