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      Embedded Firmware Engineer Interview

      Apr 6, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Alarm.com

      Interview

      Questions were difficult but manageable. The initial recruiter did seem to be in a bit of a rush when interviewing me. All the coding questions were around leet code mediums.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      detect any palindrome in an array
      Answer question
      3

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      Embedded Firmware Engineer Interview

      Oct 12, 2016
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      McLean, VA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Alarm.com (McLean, VA) in Sep 2016

      Interview

      I applied online and had a phone screen, then a grueling 8 hour long interview. Each person I spoke to took an hour, lunch was a couple of young people who cared a little too much about their own colleges. I even spoke to Jean-Paul, which meant I had passed the other screeners, but in the end, I think they weren't actually interviewing me for the right position. They wanted an embedded Linux programmer that was good with GUI, and I am a pure embedded guy good with sensors, buses, low-power and everything else but GUIs. They told me that they would get back to me within 48 hours, but it took over 2 weeks, and eventually they declined without explanation.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1) Describe the difference between a semaphore and a mutex and when you might use each. 2) when would you use an RTOS over Protothreads or Bare Metal implementation. 3) There was a software test where I had to populate functions with code to make the program print the correct results to the screen. 4) What is your best quality and worst. 5) Why did I want to come work for Alarm.com.
      Answer question
      4

      Alarm.com interviews FAQs

      • Candidates applying for Embedded Firmware Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Alarm.com overall takes an average of 27 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Alarm.com as a Embedded Firmware Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Skills test:  33%

        One on one interview:  33%

        Phone interview:  33%

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